Pacific Northwest Gardening: plant swap, 1 by catgal77

catgal77 wrote:
Thanks all! We tried a new vet, as I hadn't taken them in for over a year, since before we moved up north to Everett... not sure how I feel about them yet. Will probably give them a try again for a routine checkup and shots and all once Boy is better. My parents have been going to a vet in Edmonds (quite a ways from Carnation though), Edmonds-Westgate Veterinary Hospital, and they have been mostly pleased with them. It is one main doctor (Dr. Zacharia) who has been there for years and years, and there is generally one more doctor, although that person changes on occasion. Yep, those animals really are part of the family, and I think partly it is the folks that perhaps didn't grow up with pets (like my husband) that maybe don't understand the bond. My parents are the same way I am. My brother-in-law is the same way hubby is. Oh well.

I actually have a great arbor for a grape vine to grow up... goes right over our deck. Right now there is a wisteria there that hasn't bloomed in the past two years... I was thinking of trying to move and/or get rid of it. I also have a little bitty strawberry plant that I am going to find a good spot for in my yard, and hopefully add more strawberry plants to and have a little patch for the kids to pick and eat from.... I know they spread by underground runners, but they don't really get invasive or out of control, do they?

I found this cute little plant/weed in the beds as I was digging out seedlings to pot up for the swap, and I am guessing it is just a little common weed, but thought maybe someone here would know what it was... or else maybe on the ID forum. The plant is only maybe a couple inches tall, and the flowers are tiny.