June 14, 2003
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What plants do you grow in your garden/windowsil?

What garden? And my windowsills are not suitable.

Jane, 63
West Linn, OR USA

Kalanchoe, African violet, mother-in-law's tongue

Cathie, 53
Novi, MI USA

This year I have no garden. The lawn has achieved a balance between hardy grass and broad-leafed weeds and the forest is trying to creep back over the clearing.

Jill, 61
Saylorsburg, PA USA

A big fat WEED plant if I had a windowsil or a closet.

A-Dog, 20
Eugene, OR USA

I have plants all over my house. Mostly run-of-the-mill plants. I have two very large peace lilies that survive despite my careless approach. I have a small fig tree and a large palm tree. Outside I
have pots of petunias and I have two-inch tall flowers that have yet to bloom planted from seed in a ring around my vegetable garden. In my window I still have two poinsettias blooming leftover from Christmas There is something very spiritual about plants and flowers. I try to have cut flowers in the house most of the year. Right now I have a bunch of roses that I got on Saturday when we accidentally ran into the lady who runs the flowershop in my hometown. She was taking these beautiful "blown" roses home because she wouldn't be able to sell them and she gave them to us. Serendipity.

Cindy, 41
VA USA

We have a compost pile where things like sunflowers are growing. We don't have a garden per se, but I've planted iris from my mom, bleeding hearts that were my husband's grandma's, spirea, scabiosa, wisteria, sweet William, grape hyacinths and white hyacinths from my mom, pansies and hostas from my husband's mom, violets from my mom, lilies of the valley from my mom,
poppies, sage, columbine, parsley, and baby's breath. Not all of this stuff has grown/bloomed, but this is our first spring here.

Karen, 23
Ames, IA USA

Unfortunately, I don't have a garden or a windowsill. I do have several plants in my apartment though.

Felicia, 37
Lowell, MA USA

I have little purple flowers called "marine" in my window box... wild flowers outdoors, and I've just begun an herb garden with parsley, chives and dill.

Fisch, 47
Preston, CT USA

I have a perennial garden: day lillies, black-eyed susans, lambs ear, echinacea, chrysanthemum, cilantro, lily of the valley, a rose bush, mint, bee balm, bleeding hearts, columbine, iris, honeysuckle, sweet william, lavendar, pansies, violets, and chives. I am going to plant petunias
in my window boxes today. I'm skipping the vegetable garden this year. It's been raining for weeks and I haven't gotten any vegetables planted yet.

Laura, 38
Lowell, MA USA

In my vegetable garden I grow tomatoes, cucumbers, green peppers, celery, leaf lettuce, pumpkins, zucchini, squash, radishes, onions, beets and carrots. I also have a "bean house" where I grown climbing green beans. In my flower garden I have Lupines, Gladiolus, Dahlias, Iris, Lilies, Cone Flowers, Black Eyed Susans, Shasta Daisies, and a Bleeding Heart. I planted
Sunflowers all along the back of my house, 7 Rose bushes in the front...I also put in a bunch of
new Lilac bushes and a new flaming orange-flowered Azalea.

Tam

I don't.

Cristin, 25
Frisco, TX USA

My husband is the gardener. We grow tomatoes, lettuce, cantaloupe, radishes, peppers, and onions. We also have a flower garden, but too many different kinds of flowers to list.

Judy, 62
Easton, KS USA

My garden has evolved over the years. I now have mostly perennials. these come up every year now: I have lilies, daffodils, tulips and crocus early spring. Then Irises, primroses, fool's gold, phlox, bee balm, hibiscus, more lilies (quite a variety of them), sweet William, fox glove, columbine,azaleas, butterfly bushes, clematis. Then I plant some pansies, zinnias, impatiens. Always something blooming all spring thru fall.

Janet, 45
E. Brunswick, NJ USA

The silk ones. Those are the only ones that grow around our house. I'm pretty good at trees and shrubbery outside tho.

Stephanie, 27
TX USA

We've got a huge garden, which my dad grows loads in - lots of yummy vegetables, which I help him eat! I'm less ambitious - I've got a few house plants, and I'm growing a pot of cress atm, to go in my salad - yum!

Alice
Cardiff UK

That's really a question for my husband...he's the landscaper. We have a little bit of everything...some small trees/shrubs, plants, flowers, vegetables, etc. An eclectic, but beautiful mixture!

Tracy, 24
Ocean City, NJ USA

I have burgandy and black tulips out front. In the back it's anyone's guess. You gotta love Squirls, but they sure can wreck havoc with your plants!

Keri-Jade, 23
Brampton, Ontario CANADA

rosebushes and oat seeds

Melodi, 19
Gahanna, OH USA

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