Verbena DOES lose it's leaves over winter
Well... I did learn that a couple of days agi. I'm very fond of lemon verbena, and every year, I have 2 or 3 plants in the garden.
When the season had ended, I always threw them away and bought new ones in spring.
This year, we didn't get a chance to clean up the garden before winter, so the 3 pots with lemon verbena are still where we left them in October.
To my big surprise, they're growing small green leaves again. I was so happy when I saw that. 😄
Yet another thing learned 👍
You are a wizard darling, just own it. Intuitive and experimental gardeners are as good as spreadsheet gardeners - our way of doing things is just different.
Thanks for the kind words, @riverflows.
I guess you're right.
Thing is that my garden is the only place in the world I don't suffer from fear of failure. By not doing things by the book, I know I risk doing something wrong. If I do and the plant dies, I shed some tears (I really do, poor plant) and try to make sure I remember how not to do it in the future. (Doesn't always work, I have the memory of a goldfish 😂)
But taking care of someone else's plant... that's a completely different thing, though.
Hehe, about my bad memory: I've been actively using companion planting for 3 or 4 years now. Still, every time again I need to do the same research again. The good neighbours, well, I have a pretty good idea about those. But once again I don't remember about the bad neighbors.
I had my garlic ready for planting earlier today, then I started wondering again if it was a problem with cabbage, and/or with fennel 🤦♀️
Every year the same thing. I once wrote a blog post on my Dutch post with the title: 'my garden is a puzzle with too many pieces' 😂
And it really feels like that.
I realize it's probably not as big as an issue as what I make from it, but I think companion planting is so incredibly interesting that I want to make the most of it. I just need that memory to cooperate 😂
