gatorbone13's Profile
gatorbone13's Interests
Plants in my Garden: Blueberries, Roses, Pentas, Salva, Gardenia, various Herbs, Mandevillia, Grapes, Azalea, New Guinea Impatiens, Butterfy bushes
Favorite Aspect of Gardening: The Wonder of it All
If I'm not in my garden, I can usually be found: In my wood shop
Occupation: Retired Mfg. Eng.
gatorbone13
Member Since: 5/24/2008
Last Seen: 50 days, 17 hours ago
About gatorbone13
I retired back in '01, and we moved to sunny Florida . Leaving the cold and snow of northern Il. as far behind as we could. My wife has always had a green thumb and done well with her house plants and gardens. Finally i think some of this has rubbed off on me. Last fall a good freind gave us a couple of blueberry bushes, we promised not to try to kill them. My wife said why don't you try to take care of them, and I said OK. With a little TLC and some watering they are bearing some fruit this spring. In the meantime I got the urge and purchased a climbing rose and am trying my hand at that.
The one thing that really amazes me is how anything will grow in this sand we have in Fl. I am used to good black bottom dirt that is full of the good stuff that plants like.
This will be edited and added to at a later date.
(In the list that follows I'm claiming a lot of my wifes stuff as well as mine)
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