Thanks for the pinging.
These wildflowers are self seeding. I suppose the zennias would be to if she let them go to seed. She has quite a few lilies, but not as many as when we had a sunny yard in the Old Country, lots of day lilies, but no callas, nor cannas.
Here in sweltering heat and humidity, roses are high maintenance to stay on top of Black Spot. You have to spray the bottoms of the leaves and surrounding soil every two weeks, and then you still have some to a small degree. I bought her a rose for every occasion in the Old Country, where we had lots of sun, but here we have so little sun. We left the entire rose garden when we moved, and I have no regrets.
We have not tried any roses here in Texas. It is a little milder heat and humidity, but It probably is not enough for rose gardening without lots of work. There may be some resistant varieties for Texas, but then choices would be limited. I have noticed that the nurseries that we have been to did not carry roses. That tells me a lot, right there. Maybe in the drier parts of Tx, but not here in the piney woods region. That’s been my experience, YMMV
No Roses. That is sad. I usually get a miniature rose for mother’s day. I really don’t do anything with them except enjoy the blooms. Hubby always plants them for me, and I just love the blooms from year to year.
We plant them in front of the house and along the sidewalks, and the are intermingled with the spring flowers so that there’s always something blooming during the summer and spring.
Partial sun and the spot gets lots of run off during the rain, so very low maintenance.