LUPINS! Yes I know they grow like or as actual weeds in some places but I have been wanting to have them in my yard for the past 4 or 5 years and every year a plant a few and every spring I am disappointed to see them fail to revive after the winter. I know, EVERYONE ELSE can grow them. Well, I can't. Or should I say, I couldn't, until now!! I am a mighty stubborn gardener that way, when something I like dies, it makes me so annoyed that I declare war on the death of that plant I will persist at planting it until...well either until I tire of wasting inordinate amounts of $ on them (usual) or until I reign victorious. I did that with Jacob's Ladder, I lost. I am in the midst of doing it with rhododendron and weigela. Truth be known, I am still in the midst of it with lupins as the ones flowering in my garden are ones that I put in this spring, but still, I haven't even gotten them to flower before so this I am declaring as a small victory. I am delighting in the little thing. You have to win the battle before you win the war.
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My nemesis is Basil. I have killed it every year until now. It always says "plant in full sun" so I do, yet it DIES and FAST yet likely painful death.
This year I planted it the shade and I put it in the sun one day a week - perfection. I have a damn bumper crop of the stuff now.
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