A colorful garden
By rosyrose
@vickyrose (2235)
Cooma, Australia
February 11, 2017 10:16pm CST
Since I wanted to devout most of my garden to edible plants and bushes, I will also plant the perennial rose, some annuals and some succulents.
After growing a few roses for a couple of years now, they are actually easy to maintain, contrary to what I believed that they were high maintenance plants due to their fragile looking flowers. I didn't even fertilize my roses, but they kept on flowering, as long as I kept it pruned and remove the wasted flowers and leaves.
Succulents also give a great show if they are grouped together. They are easily grown.
I will also keep planting marigolds and petunias as they are colorful and , very low maintenance.
So far, that's my goal, I have established some plants, I just keep maintaining it now.
Do you have flowering plants?
12 people like this
14 responses
@snowy22315 (182873)
• United States
12 Feb 17
Wrong time of the year for flowering plants here unless they are indoors..
3 people like this
@vickyrose (2235)
• Cooma, Australia
12 Feb 17
It's summer here right now. I learned the seasonality of plants, it's a hit and miss last time, but it's nearly autumn here, after this scorching summer, I needed to prepare the tulips, chrysanthemums and other winter plants.
1 person likes this
@MarshaMusselman (38864)
• Midland, Michigan
12 Feb 17
I don't think she expected anyone with a garden to have them growing right now. Do you have any type of flower garden when the weather is perfect for them? Our growing season in Michigan is around April for the spring flowers and June through Oct for the rest. The mums are much later than that.
1 person likes this
@marlina (154130)
• Canada
12 Feb 17
@MarshaMusselman Our growing season here in ONtario, is about the same as Michign.
1 person likes this
@luisadannointed (6410)
• Philippines
12 Feb 17
Maybe you really have a gift on growing them that is why. You have a soft hand in tending your flowers. In the Philippines we call it 'nagana ang kamay'meaning you are good in what you do. After many attempts they all die. Lol!
2 people like this
@vickyrose (2235)
• Cooma, Australia
12 Feb 17
I just took interest in the garden recently and have learned to love the process of watching baby plants grow and develop and produce flowers. It's a cycle. I used to kill most plants, due to neglect, when I am traveling.
1 person likes this
@zhuhuifen46 (3483)
• China
16 Mar 17
Great you have such a wonderful garden. That is the result with consistent effort. Good luck and keep up.
@WriterAI (5373)
• Bulgaria
24 Feb 17
Very beautiful flowers post! My late mother had flowering plants.
@vickyrose (2235)
• Cooma, Australia
12 Feb 17
I'm glad to know that you have a garden.
1 person likes this
@ANAYAtair (128)
•
12 Feb 17
@vickyrose thank u...well..I love flowers...they give peace ...just feel happy by looking at the blossoming beauties...
@allknowing (138414)
• India
12 Feb 17
You must be on top of the world as that is what one feels when efforts yield results. Your roses are beautiful.
@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
12 Feb 17
my mother is also switching to edibles now, but it's still nice to have pretty flowers or at least plants with colorful leaves.
@silvermist (19702)
• India
18 Feb 17
@vickyrose Those are beautiful roses.I like gardening and gardens.But I do not have one.
@MarshaMusselman (38864)
• Midland, Michigan
12 Feb 17
So are most of your plants still of the edible type? I never heard of edible bushes before. It sounds like you may have more inedible plants than the types you can eat, but maybe you're just getting started with that part?
I do have several types of flowering plants that come up each year. I don't waste much money on annual plantings, but mainly get periennials. I've never purchased bushes before until last year. I got one type that's supposed to have white flowers over the whole plant for probably just a few weeks, and another plant that's a variegated green but changes colors throughout the summer and fall. If it made it through the winter, I'll be taking pictures of it as it changes to share here.
At this point our winter has been fairly mild, so I don't expect to lose anything this year.
@Morleyhunt (21744)
• Canada
12 Feb 17
Last summer I maintained our flowerbeds. My husband crated one for me as well. The plants did okay but we had a very dry summer and warring the plants continually was not practical. As a result the flowers looked okay but not spectacular. The hostas were the best plants, but they aren't grown for their flowers.
