Who enjoys gardening/plants?

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Yeah I always keep a garden growing! I have very limited outdoor space to work with but I maximize it by keeping most of them in pots. I mostly grow flowering plants. Only certain plants will tolerate the low levels of sunlight we get for much of the year here and survive the winter though. I've had the best success with succulents and vines. I've had some of my succulents for many years. I had much less success with edible plants, for the most part only having been able to produce small strawberries or tomatoes. I have a fig tree too and this was actually the first year it grew edible figs. I'm not so great at growing indoor plants though. I've tried several and despite all the advice I've tried to follow, I can't keep one alive for more than a couple years at best. The only exception is a couple of aquatic plants I've kept in my aquarium for several years, those seem very easy to maintain.

I want to grow some flowers and plant a garden but then there’s the issue that literally any plant I try to grow always die on me. I’m not joking. I had a bamboo plant die because all of the water in its vase mysteriously dried up and it wasn’t leaking and I habitually added water to it every two or three days without fail. Then there’s the succulent plant that completely dried up despite me misting it with water daily. And the parsley plant I tried to grow that died on me in only a month. I don’t think that plants like me very much.

It happens! There's so many variables that need to be just right for it to thrive and just one to throw the whole dang thing down the drain. It can be so frustrating especially if you're growing something in a garden and watching it thrive and then intense heat waves and excessive rain kills it all. I'm currently seeing that happen to my garden. I've still managed to salvage and nurse a lot of it back to health, but my tomatoes aren't yielding anything and by this time of the year I usually get a handful. But every garden here has pretty much died due to the weird weather so at least I managed not total annihilation?

I'm still happy with what I managed to harvest. I tried broccoli, brusslesprout, and celery this year as an experimentation. And so far they're all doing good or I got a bountiful harvest from them. I'm going to pick my pumpkins soon before they rot and then freeze the meat chunks for soup (they make amazing soup!)

Best of the luck if you decide to try some flowers Jiggly! While I can't say I have all the answers I've done gardening for a few years so I'm happy to lend some advice if you think it may help.

Succulents were my gateway plant, and now I’ve got a whole shelf of herbs and a few leafy vines. It’s weirdly calming to watch them grow and change over time.

Succulents are very nice and pretty plants to grow! And you can keep them indoor so they don't die during winter. I've been growing cactus from seed and it's been so cool seeing it grow from a tiny baby sprout to what it is now. It's still got a ways to go. The needles are so fuzzy and not pokey like I thought they would be. It's like a wooly cactus-mammoth

I also am growing onions, carrots and turnips and they're doing great so far!