Yesterday, WW and I were talking about pushing the zone envelope. When we were younger it seemed like the thing to do. I personally always likes to push my zones as far as I could and brag about it. However, as I got older, I was more interested in what would work than coddling it. I find myself going back to tried and true plants that work with little tending.

Years ago a landscaper gave me A Daphne that was supposed to be Hardy. Even in our sand it died a slow and painful death. There are just things that my conditions will not grow. And you can ask WW about ostrich ferns, they are the rats of the plant world to me. I've made hundreds of dollars off of my bed of ostrich ferns. But for her, not so much.

Just what you need to hang a lot of mounted orchids in a small space.

If you like fragrant flowers, freesias have a very strong aroma, and seem to be pretty easy to grow. I had an abundance of croms from red and yellow ones neglected in pots that I cleaned out. I couldn't figure out what to do with them so thought I'd stick them in the ground along a border.. there's no sun in this part of my garden from October through April, so they became terribly lanky and all flopped over. Despite this, they still bloomed and the aroma here when the breeze comes through is just awesome :)

Daffodils are very pretty. My first time growing them, for some reason I thought they were supposed to smell nice, but these remind me of latex water balloons :scratchhead:

It depends on the daffodil. There are thousands and some are highly fragrant. What zone are you in, 10A? Here, Freesias are pot plants, period.

And here, same zone as Dolly, they don’t even do really well in a pot

Same zone; very different conditions.

Yup, exactamente my point. Kinda like ostrich fern. :biggrin:

Ylang ylang!

I was way off

Oh wow! Beautiful, and all beautifully photographed.