FrazzledApril's Blog

My Gardening Blog!
Apr 25, 2008 | 9:47 AM PST
Tags: North Carolina , New Garden

I have never used a blog specifically for gardening.  I used to have a little notebook where I kept my information, but after we moved, I can't find it.  I doubt it would be of much help anyway -- I used to be in zone 9 and am now in 6, so the things I'm planting now are entirely different.

The soil in Florida was rich and from sandy to loamy.  Up here in North Carolina it doesn't seem quite as rich and it's rocks in clay, with little drainage and we get the "real winters" that of course, you don't experience in Florida.

Last year was my first year here and it was all but a disaster.  The only thing that did well were the impatiens... and while they were very pretty for a while, I was hoping my perennials would live to see another spring... they didn't.  I've been researching exactly what I might have done wrong... looking into sun/shade, my soil type, etc, etc... just to find out if pperhaps I planted the wrong things in the wrong places.

Hopefully this year will go off swimmingly -- it better, because I have spent a small fortune ~ hahha!