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well, i wish i could say something that would help, but i am baffled,
i live in northwest fl. and all i have to do this year is think about growing, everything is green, and i swear some of the plants i thought were dead are getting leaves. I have not had good luck with flowers in the past, but now i can even grow flowers. Maybe there is something to the rest cycle in horticulture.
posted by
callista22001
on May 31, 2008 at 8:23 PM
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Stay patient!
One year this empty flower bed I had began to sprout all kinds of flowers that were long forgotten. Nature's funny.
Talia
posted by
versatalia
on May 25, 2008 at 11:45 PM
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Abuelita, stop fighting your Sunset Zone!
Little lawn, maybe fenced in to control dog access, select good lawn for your area, then plant everything as though you were going to go away for a couple weeks on the spur of the moment and no one would water. Plant a silk tree in the lawn, it will survive and it will shade the lawn a little so its water needs (their water needs) will be less. The little leaves don't need raking, the blossoms can attract some hummingbirds, and I think (not sure) it is a legume so it puts nitrogen into soil. It may start seedlings here and there though...
I WISH I could grow palo verde here, jacaranda, and coral trees, but they mostly don't work.
posted by
majroj
on May 23, 2008 at 8:02 AM
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