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Gardening

Prompt: Have you had any bad experiences with gardening or planting flowers? Let's talk about them.

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I planted extensively when we lived up north. The only bad experience came when I had to clear some bushes, which I didn’t know were poison ivy. After that, nothing bad happened, and I was touted as having a green thumb, since those bushes I had warred with had cultivated a first-rate quality of soil. I had a high-volume productive vegetable garden there and another rose garden with 55 rose bushes. I even had a rose tree, on which I had grafted five different roses. It was a delight to see different roses on one huge bush.

Some bad experiences did happen in Florida, to whose flora and fauna I wasn’t accustomed in the beginning. As a result, I narrowed my gardening into pot gardening, which needed constant attention due to the crankily hot weather, and that kind of attention, I wasn’t there to give because we had been traveling constantly until the last five years or so. I still have a measly few pots of plants, but I am not finding the same northern enthusiasm in me, anymore. This might be for the better. After all, who needs to fight the elements in old age!