If it doesn’t grow like weeds, I don’t want it!
Careful, they’re tricky! Often growing in the wild like weeds but the minute they sense they are under human care they go diva real quick LMAO
I’m lucky. I live in a place where stonecrop is native, and it grows like a weed. Except it doesn’t spread (quickly), and I love the look.
We had some landscaping done and they moved some stonecrop and forgot to move one back. it wasn’t even planted; it just grew right there where they’d left it!
Great plants.
I think you meant “particular”
Used to work in Lowe’s garden center, and man, people are really ignorant about taking care of plants and gardening.
No, you don’t need that special soil. I do not care what the bag says, that’s 95% marketing gimmick. Get the cheap shit and mix in some cow manure or mushroom compost. Done.
No, you don’t need special fertilizers. I use 10-10-10 year round, though lately I’ve learned that’s not ideal, need a different mix once the plants are established. Still, works. Everything we have growing is jamming out.
For context, this is in NW Florida. Glaciers didn’t make it down here so our soil is absolute crap, worst I’ve ever experienced. We got an inch or three of topsoil, then it’s sandy clay all the way to China. All I do is dig a hole thrice the size of the pot, throw the plant in with whatever soil I have on hand. Wait a couple of weeks for growth, fertilize (I use way more than recommended!), keep it watered.
There’s hardly anything in a typical garden center or nursery that’s as picky as the cartoon shows.
