Texas Gardening: Is it Spring yet? What r u doing in the garden?, 1 by PeeperKeeper

PeeperKeeper wrote:
A couple of weeks ago, I saw that my neighbor had put out her corn gluten, so I did the same. I don't need those pesky weeds getting started.

Speaking of weeds, there is an area in the back bed where the bermuda was starting to get a hold so since yesterday was such a beautiful warm day, I started working on that. Gosh, I hate bermuda! Nut grass too! There's another area where the nut grass has gained a foothold and I've put off weeding that area too long.

While I was weeding, I decided to go ahead and cut back the Mexican Heather and other perennials. I was excited to see some of them had already started blooming! Particularly the pincushions and the white candytuft look like they decided it is Spring already. I saw some bulbs starting to push their way up too. There are some I had forgotten about. I don't remember what they are. Muscari, maybe? They were covered by the bermuda. I also noticed my daffies are poking their leaves up. Gotta love those bulbs!

I cut the big Duranta down yesterday too. I can't believe how HUGE it got last year! We had just moved to this house and I had dug it up from my other house where it had been in the ground for a good 4 years or so. I guess it wasn't getting enough sun or something at the old house because it just shot up here, and still had blooms on it until that last freeze a couple weeks ago. Can't wait to see what it does this year, although I think I'm a little scared of it, lol. I'm attaching a picture of the area I was working, but the picture is from November. You can see the Duranta behind the big rock. That window above and to the right of it is at least 6 1/2 feet above the ground. In the foreground, you can see some of pincushions (lower right, by the Mex. Heath.) and candytuft (to the right of the log) that is now blooming and the Mexican Heather and skullcap I just trimmed back, and in the bottom right corner, you can see that the dratted Bermuda has been there since at least November!