Beginner question

[cesy]

I would like to learn more about gardening. However, at the moment I lack a garden. I have tried keeping house-plants, but I have a regrettable tendency to kill them. Does anyone have any particular advice on types that are easy to keep? I tend to forget to water things unless it's a very fixed "it needs 100ml once a week" so I can put a recurring reminder in Outlook.

Comments

[sara]

You might look for the kind with the trailing bits and the heart-shaped leaves (and sadly, I don't know the species or common name.) You might also like a fancy English ivy, Hedera helix, which is notoriously hard to kill. They have some pretty ones with mottled leaves. Oh, and asparagus ferns (not really a fern) are hard to kill.

[cyprinella]

I have managed to kill ivy but then, I also didn't ever manage to keep basil alive until last year. Oddly, carnivorous plants are a breeze.

My unkillables are spiderplants and chives.

[sara]

*laughing* If you can kill ivy, I could use you in my back yard!

[cyprinella]

It may have been the Miracle Gro that did it. (I was a n00b, I Miracle Gro-ed everything.)