Catching Up With Summer Working Away At the Frontline I swore to myself I wouldn’t do this, but I miscalculated how much I wanted to spend time with grandkids (even though it meant numerous 9 hr. trips). I am now playing catch up with the garden weeds, long grass, and a veritable jungle out there. […]
weeds
Globe Thistles And Other Nice Looking Xeriscape Plants
The last post was about thistles, since I had been hard at work in the garden getting rid of as many as I possibly could manage, but there are lovely garden flowers that have thistle characteristics without their tendency to elbow everything else out. Long ago, when planting my first garden on Glen Echo (isn’t […]
Canadian Thistles, Are They the Bane of your Garden?
I don’t know anyone who says they like this plant. We all call it a weed, and doggedly work to eradicate it from our yards. That has been one of my occupations of late, and I find there is something of an art to ridding the garden of Cirsium arvense, as horticultural Latin nomenclature labels […]
Old-Fashioned Nuisance Plants
magnolia, althea, yarrow and money-plant….i decided to take a walk around the old house today observing my world. i live in a typical old, sprawling, one-story southern farmhouse, with wide porches to the south and west. when i moved here, the landscaping told me someone once lived here who loved flowers and shrubbery. a hundred […]
super organic bugspray ( weedkiller ~ i hope~)
my new bundles of asparagus roots have arrived…gave them good sprinkle withseaweed tea and heeled into shade of compost pile. my visit to their new bedalongside the 20 just planted was daunting. although i had devoted severaldifferent days to alleviate ( you’ll notice not “eliminate”) the bermudagrassproblem. hand weeding and pulling does the trick for […]
