How Does My Garden Grow?

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How Does My Garden Grow?

I love Mexican Petunia. There is something renewing about this flower. My challenge is to get them to grow in my flower beds. Let me start at the beginning.

When I lived on Parkgate Dr., at Good Samaritan Village in Kissimmee, FL, my friend gave me some cuttings of this flower and told me to just stick them into the grown and they will grow. I didn’t know then what kind of flowers they were. So I followed her instruction and planted them in my front flower bed. Soon they were growing tall and flowers were blooming every day. In late spring of 2004 I had someone pressure wash my mobile home. (It needed it badly). She used a very strong cleaner. She told me to cover the plants and then wash them down after she was done and that they would be okay. I followed her directions but I still lost a lot of flowers and bushes.

In the beginning of August I redid my flower bed got it to look great and the Mexican Petunia were blooming again. Then Hurricane Charlie came. We lost our home. The flowers survive so I put them into a large pot and brought them over to our new place on Middlegate Dr. (Good Samaritan Village). I didn’t plant them right away. We were having work completed on our new place and they were doing fine in the large flower pots. I didn’t work on my new flower beds right away because they were a mess and I was still getting my new place in order. In 2006 I went to California for six weeks. My daughter came to water my plants while I was away but she didn’t realize that she was to water the large plants outside the screen room. They all died!

Trying again, In 2007 I won at work (an ecology event) a dwarf version of Mexican Petunias. I had finally gotten around to weeding, pruning, and planting. To my horror the rabbits love to eat the dwarf Mexican Petunias. I tried putting shinning things around them. I even put moth balls around them. They still come back. I didn’t want to hurt the rabbits so they eat them – letting them win the battle.

Here we are in 2008. Crista, the gardener, gave me some Mexican Petunia plants (they call them Texas Blue Bells). She had pulled them out of another area. I planted them in the front flowerbed. They died! It was a hassle to water them. So I paid Jake, my lawn man, to set up a soaker watering system in the front and I connected a soaker hose for the new flower beds I made up in the back of my home. I purchased two Mexican Petunia plants and planted some in the front and some in the back. They are starting to take. The plants that Crista gave me are also coming back. A Caledonia plant I planted two years ago is also coming back. Amazing what a little water will do. I vision within a year that the front and back will be filled with beautiful Mexican Petunia. That is if the rabbits don’t eat them.

Now why do I love these plants so much? Every morning they have new flowers. Every morning is a new start. Yesterday’s flowers die away but nothing stops them from producing beautiful blue blossoms every morning. It is the same with life, each evening ends the day and the next morning starts a new day. Isn’t God amazing?