Back in the SL

Sometimes I think I'm back in the SL what with all the cliques, claques and factions here in the Senior Living Residence. Many important issues in contention including, of course, the cuisine. Thank goodness we're only served dinner; it could be worse.

However the struggle in which I am invested has to do with gardening, which is to say container gardening. There is the Rose Contingent, the Water-wise Contingent and the No Contingent. Somehow I ended up the defacto leader of the water-wise faction. It is distressing to try to part these lovely ladies from their roses but it must be done! Roses don't grow well in pots, not even big pots and they require too much water and care in order to thrive in our baked-brick environment.

So I am making a list of candidate plants that will require less water, less care more impact: Lavenders (many kinds, fragrant), Rosemary (fragrant), Santolina, Artemesias, Rose campion, Thymes (fragrant), Zauschneria, aka California fuchsia, both green and silver leaved, Mexican salvia, Salvia Amistad, Pineapple salvia (fragrant), Aloe, Agave, Smoke tree, Cotinus, grows well in a large pot, Coreopsis, Penstemon, Pelargonium Sidoides, Erigeron, Leonotis, Guara, Plumbago, Plumbagnoides, Nepeta and many more.




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