Dee_ann
New Member
Hi all!
I just joined..
I have a problem.. I have always been a casual gardener, I just have had easy, no brainer things like roses and azaleas..
A few weeks ago my mom decided it was long overdue to get my patio area spruced up so she took me to Lowe's and bought me a carload of different things to plant. I have the little placards that came with those so I know what they are and I can care for them.
But just a few days after that, Mom had a massive heart attack and passed away. That was about two weeks ago.
Mom had LOTS of plants and flowers at her house. My dad, said they are all weeds and left to him, he would weedeater them all. Dad has an anti-green thumb. So I went into mother hen mode and began to transfer Mom's plants to my house. 99.999% of them are in pots so that made it easy. Well, not that easy.. It took me a week using a van to move them all. There's easily over 200 pots.
The problem is, almost none of them have the little placards in them to identify them. I didn't hang out at their house while mom did her gardening and we never really talked about what all she had going on with her stuff. We were just starting to do that though.. We just never got the chance for her to point out all her plants to me..
So my panic is that I really, really need help identifying her plants so that I can care for them properly. This means everything to me because my mom loved her plants, she loved gardening and now that she is gone it is my duty to take care of her plants for her.
I've moved them to my backyard and my patio is overflowing with zillions of plants. I love how my patio looks now but I would rather my mom were still alive and my patio be barren like it was.
So I have a very expensive professional DSLR camera that takes insanely excellent photos. Is it possible that I might post photos of my mom's plants and someone can help tell me what they are? A lot of them are duplicates so that would narrow it down, once I identify one plant that might cover 20-30 other pots with the same thing.
Thanks!
I just joined..
I have a problem.. I have always been a casual gardener, I just have had easy, no brainer things like roses and azaleas..
A few weeks ago my mom decided it was long overdue to get my patio area spruced up so she took me to Lowe's and bought me a carload of different things to plant. I have the little placards that came with those so I know what they are and I can care for them.
But just a few days after that, Mom had a massive heart attack and passed away. That was about two weeks ago.
Mom had LOTS of plants and flowers at her house. My dad, said they are all weeds and left to him, he would weedeater them all. Dad has an anti-green thumb. So I went into mother hen mode and began to transfer Mom's plants to my house. 99.999% of them are in pots so that made it easy. Well, not that easy.. It took me a week using a van to move them all. There's easily over 200 pots.
The problem is, almost none of them have the little placards in them to identify them. I didn't hang out at their house while mom did her gardening and we never really talked about what all she had going on with her stuff. We were just starting to do that though.. We just never got the chance for her to point out all her plants to me..
So my panic is that I really, really need help identifying her plants so that I can care for them properly. This means everything to me because my mom loved her plants, she loved gardening and now that she is gone it is my duty to take care of her plants for her.
I've moved them to my backyard and my patio is overflowing with zillions of plants. I love how my patio looks now but I would rather my mom were still alive and my patio be barren like it was.
So I have a very expensive professional DSLR camera that takes insanely excellent photos. Is it possible that I might post photos of my mom's plants and someone can help tell me what they are? A lot of them are duplicates so that would narrow it down, once I identify one plant that might cover 20-30 other pots with the same thing.
Thanks!
