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vintageviolet

Hi all!  Are any of you gardening either in-ground or in containers?  I was hoping to learn more about the availability of certain plants and your experiences with growing things.

Julianna

Primadonna

You can try me :D

vintageviolet

Awesome!  Do you grow a cacti and succulents?  Begonias? African violets?  I know I have some others as well... I was thinking right now about Aloes arborescens and A. saponaria variegata, various agaves, stapelias, graptopetalums, echeverias, aeoniums, epiphytic cacti like epiphyllums, schlumbergeras, rhipsalis, aporocactus, etc., and things like zinnias, marigolds, and nasturtiums.  Have you seen any of these around?

Primadonna

Hi Julianna,

Sorry for my late reply but I had to translate the Latin names because I do not know them... :D

I don't grow cacti and succulents or begonias and African violets. The first two I don't like them and the last two simple because I don't have them.

Then the others you mentioned I had only the nasturtium but after a few years it died.

Some of them I have seen them in some garden stands at the road towards Jerash or to the south, If you want to find them now it will be hard because this is not the right time.
Search in the early spring.

If you are going north, there is also a grower who sells all kinds of seeds. I know he is difficult to find him but you can ask the salesmen at the road.
I hope these information help you a bit.

Kate29

My Sister is a Gardening Addict,she has many plants in front of her yard,from Cactus to Chilli Paddy (the fierces small chillis)if u are interested,u are most welcome to take a look at her Garden and i will be very pleased to introduce her to you

nomankhn

Nice hobby i love to gardening & birds. Having 20 years of breeding birds.

vintageviolet

Thanks guys!  I'm not there, so I couldn't really go looking, but am trying to figure out what to bring if we move.  I want to do xeriscaping, so that involves native and drought-tolerant plants :) How your garden looks depends on your style I guess.  I think mostly people think cacti+succulents=bare, although that's only if someone wants it to be bare.  I'd like to have a few higher-water plants too that would need irrigation, but very few to minimize water usage. 

So mostly, I'd think of the decorative portions as being something like this:



which wouldn't need irrigation in the NW of Jordan for the most part (obviously just exclude or limit the plants that do).

Primadonna

That looks stunning and awesome!
Although it is not my style I like it.
So you don't have to be bored once you are arrived here :D

My advise to you is to bring everything what you really want and you are not sure of if you can buy here.

vintageviolet

Thanks!  So out of curiosity what kinds of plants are you growing?  Are you planting in ground or in containers or both?  Any house plants?

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