Hi, Maridell here. Christine "merigold" is a boring name - I have you beat ha, ha!
I started gardening about 10 years ago when my husband and I bought our home. Prior to that we both spent our adult lives in apartment living...no place for plants except a couple containers.
There were no perennials here to speak of when we moved in. We have added some small flower beds under trees and a small garden in the middle of the back yard (all kinds of flowers in there along with some herbs) that WAS hot and sunny until the trees got so HUGE. So now I have sun plants that don't get so much sun. One of our trees however, is slowly dying. We had it looked at and it will need to be removed in the next couple years...so I'll get my sun back! An area along the back side of the house has space for planting but so many things have died there, I hate to put anything special there...
