Oh that's a pretty funny story. My stepdaughter says that too--she wants to have flower and veggie gardens, but they just never work out. I buy her succulents that don't need much water or care so she can have SOMETHING green around her house.
All of you have such nice setups. I don't even bother anymore. My house is a plant hospice. They come here to die. I'm the plant grim reaper. I walk through garden centers and I swear I can hear the plants shuddering in fear that I will be bringing them home.
I managed to bring a small fig tree back to life that my DH's grandfather gave us. It wasn't doing very well. I got it going and planted it in the yard. It started producing figs and I was so proud of myself. I thought I had broken the curse. Well, we never did get one fig. A large possum was eating them as soon as they sprouted and then the landscapers ran the tree over with the mower. I came home one day and all that was left of it was a broken stick on the lawn. I always wondered if the tree asked them to kill it before I managed to.The curse continues.
I also tried with a small planting kit made for children. It had seeds for small red flowers and had a little Winnie the Pooh figurine that hung by his paws off the side of the very small pot. I followed the instructions to the letter and got the seedlings to sprout and then thinned them like they said to. The next day the rest of them were all dead. Ages 3 and up my eye.
DH and DD got a good laugh out of that one.