starting out

What was the first plant you ever grew (sucessfully or otherwise!) ? Do you still grow it today? Any special or nostalgic feeling attached to it or other plants?

Let's hear 'em :-)

Let's see. A spider plant. It even worked its way into a song. ;o)

But I'm afraid I have no special feelings for spider plants nonetheless and don't have any now.

It would have to be sunflowers... I have always loved them, and still grow them to this day..

A Fuscia. I broke a limb off a bush near an old abandoned house and brought it home. I was about 6 at the time. It sat in my toybox for a few days and my Mom threw it in the trash. I pulled it out and stuck it into the dirt in the middle of my Dad's rose garden. He told me that the stick was dead but let me water it every day anyway. It rooted and grew and he eventually had to move 2 roses because it did so well! And Yes, Fuscias still light up my day!

I really cant remember what it was that i started with.

Me either, Alan! LOL

Terri

my first garden was a vegetable garden. the only thing that grew well was the basil. and it was goooood. i did also manage to grow a cuccumber. however, it looked like a crooked zuchini squash. now 10+ years later i'm growing lots of things and having a ball. some does well, others so so and some fail, but i'm trying to learn lessons here.

debi z

When I was a girl my father had a vegetable garden that he allowed me to plant Glad bulbs around the perimeter of. We forgot they were there in the spring and he tilled them under. To our surprise we had Glads everywhere in a few weeks and it was the most wonderful thing when I was 8 or 9.
I still love them!

When I was almost 5, my grandfather let me plant an avocado seed and a mango seed in the small patch behind his rental house. The next year, when he moved to the house he built, he transplanted them in the back yard. Years later, when I was in high school, we moved back to his house in Fla. and both of those trees were very mature, and bearing fruit! I still love mangoes and avocados!

During my earliest years I was raised in hotels in NYC and Boston. The only plants I saw were potted palms and the growing things in the Boston Commons and Central Park. A funny story: I was walking to school one day, about 6 city blocks from the hotel when I had to pass some men with a hydraulic jack breaking up pavement to work on utilities. I hated those things! So loud and they shook the ground; I was scared to death of them! But they stopped hammering and began to dig off the pavement and shovel some dirt aside. I was so shocked that there was dirt under there!
Anyway, we finally moved to Savannah and lived in a hotel for awhile, but Daddy bought a bungalow out of town on a tidal creek. I was in hog heaven. Someone gave us an Easter Lily and after it bloomed, I planted it by a fence. The next year there were about 3 of them blooming and several more babies. I have been hooked on bulbs ever since. But I like them all. Lillies, tulips and daffodils iris, glads, etc.... although I realize that many are not true bulbs. Wish there were more that had a long blooming season instead of 2-3 weeks. Does anyone have some suggestions?

You might try daylilies - if you buy staggered bloomers, early, mid and late, you'll have flowers most of the summer. It's this late in August and my Crystal Tide, which is blooming for the second time, has just finished it's last bud.

I like agapanthus (lily of the nile), too, because once those huge heads begin to bloom, it goes on for several weeks. Then the next head starts in. Gorgeous plants. I have the sky blue type, some whites, and some cobalt blues that I got from a catalog. And, let me tell you they were gorgeous!!!

This is my first time to post. This looks like a great place to be.

http://home.cfl.rr.com/pamj/Flowers/index.htm

This is my web site and it covers what grows in my gardens. The agapanthus pictures are self-explanatory!!

My first plant was Gingseng. I had all the wrong intentions when I purchased the seeds, but here it is 15 years later and its one of my most prized plants. I thought I would get rich selling the roots, but instead it made me a richer person because now I'm an avid gardener.

The first plant my parents had me plant were four o'clocks.
I always had a problem coming home from playing with the neighborhood kids. Mom and dad had an idea...I had to be home before the flowers bloomed. The only problem with this was shady days, it wasnt long before I had an 'appropriate' sense of time, and the four o'clocks were the reason. I still plant them today and remember this little lesson of life :-)