(05-19-2020, 09:26 AM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(05-19-2020, 08:54 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: Trying to grow gardenias. I give up!

Got two blooms on mine this year so far. LOL
They are stubborn for the not-so-green-of-thumb like myself.

About 20 years ago, my wife and I were visiting some friends who had some large gardenias in their front yard.  So my wife pinches off a small shoot and takes it home and puts it in a pot in the back yard.  And there it sat for about 10 years, in a pot full of mud, through freezes, heat waves, droughts, hurricanes, you name it.   Then we moved about 10 years ago, and that pot with that pathetic little gardenia was one of the last things we took to our new house.  We wanted to use the pot, so we took out the gardenia and planted it in the corner of the yard away from everything.  And there it sat for some more years, until a couple of years ago, it decided to grow.  And today it's about 5 feet tall with some really beautiful white flowers.  It's the ultimate survivor.

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