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If you can’t grow where you are, move! You are not a tree!
As an admirer of flowers, I have learned an essential lesson from observing these beautiful plants over the years: if you are in an environment where you cannot thrive and grow, you must move.
Flowers are remarkably resilient, but they cannot bloom even in conditions utterly unsuitable for their needs.
Take the delicate daffodil, for example.
This sunny flower originated in the Mediterranean region and thrives in areas with cool, moist springs and warm, dry summers. Plant a daffodil bulb in the sweltering heat of the tropics or the tundra, and it simply will not survive, let alone produce those brilliant yellow trumpets we admire each spring.
The daffodil knows that if it cannot grow where it is planted, it must move its energy elsewhere until conditions are right.
The elegant rose exhibits a similar tendency.
Wild rose bushes don’t grow in deserts or on the Arctic tundra.
Roses need a temperate climate, good drainage, nutrient-rich soil, and at least six hours of sunlight daily to unfurl those lush, fragrant blooms. Plant a rose in heavy clay or deep shade, and it will struggle with stunted growth and sickly yellowed leaves and flowers if it blooms.
