Atlanta north weather is much kinder to plants that the more Coastal areas of the South. The farther south you travel, the worse the humidity. We used to roll down the windows as we traveled late Friday evenings to the farm 200 miles south of Atlanta, to check how much more sultry the air had become.

As in real estate, Location, location, location. If someone tells you something doesn’t grow, try sunnier, shadier, on a slope, in a bog.

Lastly, I had a neighbor when I lived in Clayton County who grew a single gorgeous delphinium on the north side of her house. It lived for years. Every year we looked forward to that glorious bloom.