10 for 10! Big Win!
"I've got an old 1930's row home with an 11' x 19' plot of very sad grass in an eastern US industrial city Zone 7. This April, I decided that the lawn wasn't worth it, tore the whole thing out, and planted an array of perennials. Some are doing well. Some didn't make it at all. . . but the 10 SPURGE I purchased from this site are thriving! Old neighborhood means lead pain in the houses originally, cast iron pipes in the ground through the yard. Generations of paving and repaving my road and about a billion cars belching exhaust parallel parking right on my curb. There's all sorts of things in my soil that nobody wants, let alone plants. (Reason #6032b why I didn't plant vegetables. Eating that stuff? No way!) But my SPURGES have decided that not only will they eat it, they LOVE IT! They're in about 10" of soil over a bed of clay that might as well have been bricks baked by a cro-magnon civilization: hardpacked and undisturbed for eons. I've added peat moss to bulk up the top 10" and added bonemeal to help promote some strong roots (and some kind of nutrients!) and the Spurge were blooming before they'd been in the ground for more than 2 weeks. Success, success, success. :D PS. Wasn't able to get your site to play nice with my browser, so I can't upload my pictures. (I'm running Chrome if that helps your tech team. ) Y'all're just going to have to imagine the cutest tiny baby spurge with a bloom consuming it's whole stalk and then 3 weeks later, a 7 stalk-mini-bush with 7 blooms busting out like a tween at a middle school dance."