I happened to park right next to the truck owned by Felder Rushing at the recent houseplant sale at the Memphis Botanic Garden and saw the cute little garden he is now growing in the open bed.
Rushing, a former extension horticulturist, is always challenging himself and his followers not to make a big thing of gardening. His motto is: Just do it!
He said: I do not want people telling me they do not have a place to garden.
He once grew a nice crop of tomatoes in some sacks of potting soil in his truck, too.
These days he has a two-tiered box filled with johnny jumpups, a purple-leaf ornamental kale, Dusty Miller, compact nandina and a cascading juniper.
They have have survived two series of temperatures in the teens, Felder said.
He gives them slow-release fertilizer when he plants and then an occasionally boost with a liquid plant food. When just planted, he waters them a couple of time. After that, they are on their own. They are doing just fine, too.