This is one of the nearly dead miniature red rosebushes I took home with me to try and revive, and look at it! It has not only a red rose, which is all it had when I picked it up, but a yellow rose too!
Gardening can give me lots of surprises. This is one of the fun kind!
Hope your day is going great and it’s only full of fun surprises! Off to write!
Terry
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I have a black thumb. I have no real interest in gardening. I grew potted plants in Germany all the time. Ivy, Coleus, others were no problem. I killed them in Lawton all the time. In Hawaii we had Hibiscus hedges, a Bird of Paradise plant on the side of the house that was beautiful. A Plumeria tree in the front yard. It bloomed with white flowers with yellow centers like you see in a lot of leis. On the other side of the house from the Bird of Paradise was an avocado tree. That was fun for guacamole. My best friend made it all the time when we had avocados.
We had Irises at the house when we lived near Cedar Creek Lake before we moved to the Fort Cavazos area in 2010. I haven’t tried to grow anything since then.
Oh, wow, it sounds like you did really well though in most places!! Hawaii sounds delightful. And irises, I haven’t had any luck at here. Some things make it and some things don’t. I usually don’t retry things that don’t. But sometimes they just need to be in a different location and yay! They’re thriving. I had a place at the corner of my house in Oklahoma where nothing grew. And I kept replanting it. It was a big corner planter. And then it seemed overnight EVERYTHING grew. lol. Then it was too much. I have that trouble out front for my trees in one area where everything has struggled to grow. I think the soil is sooo poor and then it hits hardpan so no roots grow through that. They say to dig up 4 feet and then fill it with all this stuff for drainage, good root growth. Uh, yeah. Like I could do that. 🙂 But all of a sudden, some of the bigger plants are starting to make it and with a little shade from our awful hot Texas sun, other plants are now beginning to thrive. I’m not really good at potted plants. I over or underwater them. 🙁