Northeast Gardening: What's Growing - Part 6, 1 by grampapa

grampapa wrote:
that was fun, Al. how big is that hibiscus bloom? I used to grow a lot of coleus from seed, use them as house plants, whatever. there are just so many great colors.

Andy, great tip on the phlox. that's one of the reasons I haven't grown it. maybe I'll try.

Dave, I may take the plunge on the water garden some day. my brother got transferred from NC to Baton Rouge LA and bought a house with a big koi pond. he enjoys it. biggest problem is protecting the koi from predators. we have great blue heron here that we enjoy, but I suspect they would enjoy a nice koi occasionally, too

for a nice change of pace, here's another collage - with what are apparently the 3 hardest weeds to get rid of (the sedge has made it to the Guiness book as the world's worst weed). and guess what, I was able to take all these nice pics in my own garden :^(
one of my front beds is covered with the horsetail, and the sedge has taken over my fairy garden and my heather garden. at least I have finally identifed them (I thought the sedge was a grass..had never seen it before..so I was spraying it with grass-b-gone and wondering why it wouldn't b-gone). I'm pulling out a half bushel of that sedge a day and can't get ahead of it. I just added the pic of the poor birch tree to round out the collage.

ok, I'm done whining now. sorry. feel better. see :-))

gram