01/15/2025
Every year is a learning experience that helps me grow. I try not to look at it like a failure if something doesnāt work or flower one year, I try to see how it can help me in the following seasons. Also, what works for some people just isnāt right for the next and that is ok! Itās also ok to take time to figure things out. Gardening has given me so much more than beautiful flowers, itās helped me be more patient and that was something that I greatly lacked and still do at times.
I try not to grow more then three or four new to me seeds a season. Keeping it simple works best for me. Back for the ānewā this year is ageratum. I found this color and knew I needed to incorporate them to my garden this season because the color is so unique. Same for the aster and cosmo photos.
I also wanted to mention my gardening āfailuresā and how to turn them around, but theyāre not really failures. Take my sunflower example from last season for example. I can grow sunflowers and have before. I did a test growing them in an old veggie garden two seasons ago, they did well even though I only grew maybe two packs of them and they were all single stemmed. Last year I had high hopes of doing more with sunflowers, however I was unprepared for the work it would take to keep animals off of them. I had over seeded a large space with sunflowers and did some environmental friendly efforts to keep animals off them. That did not work. I wanted to keep trying with sunflowers because customers love them and that makes me happy!
Butā¦instead of giving up on sunflowers, I will do less of them, but grow multi branching varieties and cage what Iām able to. It took a while of reading and research, but I found several varieties to try this season for you! Thanks for listening to my ramble!
-Natalie
