Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden #122, 1 by ardesia

ardesia wrote:
Drew, you are such a good AeAe parent, they are so hard to keep alive and you are doing very well. You must have good soil to be able to dig that monster up each year so you can bring it inside.

Elaine, everything looks so good, my B. Alba is finally starting to look good again after the deer snacked on it.

You are all making me so jealous, still no rain here, I am ready to move! I dream of a place with soil that drains and one that has adequate precipitation. (LOL, sounds like S. FL to me.) It hurts to watch the rain across the river while I am standing here with my hose in hand. The Beaufort Water Festival, a really big deal around here, has had serious rain every day since it started. Aggghhhhh, I sound like an old farmer, always complaining about the weather.

In spite of the unpleasant weather I still broke down and bought a couple of Sombrero Salsa Exhinaceas, I have heard they do well here so I am going to try even if I will be watering them twice a day for a while. I had to work in a lot of compost, the soil was like dust.

The other pic is of a small area that originally had grass but the trees got too large and shaded it so I added compost and bagged soil and planted it with what felt like at least a million dwarf mondo grass plugs. Talk about an achy back. LOL