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[meallen616]

Hello everyone,

[CelticCrafter]

I just looked at the little weather tile on my PC and according to that, it's supposed to snow all day Wednesday.  Noooo!

[LindaSal]

New England is in for another nor' easter this week.    Spring always takes a while to get here but when it arrives it is welcomed big time!!

[AuntG]

Thanks for the answers about flowers in FL @151949. I'm glad you figured out what I was saying (I went back and edited my typing errors). Sounds like some people think you are selling and moving out of FL, but I'm pretty sure you are not moving that far away - just into a single family home from the duplex kind of home.

[151949]

@AuntG  We are moving close by where we live now. 

[ccassaday]

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@151949wrote:

@AuntG  We are moving close by where we live now. 

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Did you finally get a offer on your house?

[chickenbutt]

We just finally got some winter last week.  Had a couple feet of snow one day and, while not anything major, it was really nice to see a halfway decent amount of snow.

But, hey, happy Spring to those who love it!    

[Nonametoday]

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@AuntGwrote:

Our nights are still in the 20's so Spring is still a month away. I've often wondered about trees and plants in warm climates.  If you plant something simple like petunias and marigolds, do the grow on and on for years?  A deep free is what kills mine.

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Petunias will grow for quite a while but eventually become quite leggy. The summer sun is generally too much for geraniums and the leaves fall off though the plant is still alive. When fall comes it will come back to normal.But isn't very pretty in the summer.We usually take ours out for the summer & put new ones in the fall, both geraniums and petunias. We have an abundance of tropical plants growing here that thrive in the summer heat like hibiscus.

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NEITHER PETUNIAS NOR MARIGOLDS is a perennial.  I think that is your question.  They live for a season and die.  You can save seeds from marigolds and plant them the following year.  Petunias do not do so well from seeds in my area but if you plant the seeds from marigolds in milk jugs around winter solstice and baby them throughout the season, they will come up in the jugs and you can transplant into the soil when the weather warms up.  However, as was said, petunias will get leggy and cannot take high heat/humidity and are better fall and spring plants than summer.  They will not tolerate the winters of most areas.  

[151949]

@Nonametoday I live in southern Florida - that's why she was asking - because we don't get freezes , how long do they live.

[Nonametoday]

Petunias are seasonal flowers.  They are better grown as an annual and not a perennial.  Best answer is to buy them from your garden shop, plant them each year.  You should be able to collect marigold seeds for replanting but petunias are difficult, though not impossible.  Seeds are impossible for me to see/find at my age.