Beginner Gardening: Teddy's plants, 1 by omchodoy

omchodoy wrote:
I am new not only to this forum, but to gardening. My mother had such a green thumb, but I definitely did not inherit it. I am trying hard to learn, and thank God for the Internet that allows me to search for things! Yesterday I brought home 2 Cosmos flowers to add to my yard, which is in the very early stages of landscaping. I'm a first-time homeowner of 10 months; when I moved in here the back yard was all brick and river rock. The photo below shows the Cosmos when I first planted them YESTERDAY (May 30) at about 11:30 a.m. I read the description that came with the plant, asked nursery personnel and looked it up on the Internet before I planted them. (Imagine all the dirt in the photo was layers of river rock last summer!). The next post will show what I found today at about 2:00 p.m.