Beginner Gardening: If you had your garden to do over again..., 1 by vossner

vossner wrote:
I did not want to have rocks or metal bordering my beds so I planted ophiopogon aka monkey grass as a "natural" border. Very pretty but if an area is too moist the MG is growing into the bed as a ground cover. Nothing too terribly wrong with that, except that MG is just tall enough (6") to serve as hiding for snakes. If I were to do it again, I would leave the beds sans borders and just fight the creeping grass w/weedeater or roundup.

Mind you, I have not seen a single snake slithering in/out of monkey grass, but I'm paranoid that way, lol. That's it. No other regrets; in fact, the rewards completely overshadow my monkey grass faux pas.

Last night as we returned from running an errand, the exhuberant aroma of night blooming jasmine, and brugs and sweet almond verbena and jasmine totally engulfed me. It felt like paradise, even in the dark. Words can't explain how rewarding that feeling was.