OK, done with venting. Now, about your flowers. I don't know much about the climate, does it snow a lot? I thought rhodies needed warmish temperatures. I know they don't need as warm a climate as azaleas. When I finally get my new house, I want to plant flowers. It is really stupid, but we have lived in this rental house for ten years, and I never plant anything because I keep saying we are going to move. This time I really mean it! (At least it's cheap, the landlady doesn't raise the rent).
I love old fashioned roses, and other sweet-smelling flowers. Jasmine, sweet olive, honeysuckle, gardenia, sweet William. I love flowers that bloom at night, again the jasmine and gardenia, and moonflowers and night-blooming cereus. I love azaleas and camellias and magnolias, they are the flowers I grew up with in Louisiana. In our yard we have dogwoods, azaleas, forsythia, and lilac. But no rhododendrons. I have a sweet olive imported from Louisiana sitting on my windowsill, waiting for its new home.
A friend of mine loves rhododendrons, and I used to give him plants on his birthday to plant in his garden, but they never survived. I just bought what was at the nursery, I assumed that it would be something that would grow in this climate. "Same old shit." I guess.
I very much like the idea of timing the blooms ("firing sequence"), but I don't think I would do anything more than just plant things that bloomed at different times. |
