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canesisters
Garden Master
Working on it Mary. I'm am a terrible scrounger for plants. If I see something that is growing well in a difficult situation, I just assume that it will be beautiful with a little tending. I've tried to add some Carolina Jasmine dug up from the side of the road, but I can't seem to get it to transplant well. I've got several wild roses - also from road sides. They only bloom once a year, but the leaves are nice and dense and they like to climb along the fence (watch out for the thorns though 
). I snagged a couple of yucca from some woods and have just scored a bunch of iris and some other little blooming bulb thing. I might have a line on a clematis from the same place as the iris. And I'm ALWAYS open to freebies from friends. All of these have proven that they will grow well in my area - and I'm ALL about planting it, tending it the first summer and then letting it be. On a whim I pruned some volunteer shrub/trees along my fence line and people have been commenting on them ever since 
. I just wack off all the little sucker branches around the bottom a couple of times a summer and they look like some sort of ornamental tree. My hope is that if I slowly build the garden, using things that I know will thrive here as the backbone, then I can add one or two 'experiments' every year for fun.
