Specialty Gardening: Seed Swap & Chat # 57 - summer is upon us, 1 by gemini_sage

gemini_sage wrote:
I'd been thinking perhaps since the Poppies had germinated in the fall and overwintered, and therefore started blooming about a month earlier this year, that they had simply beat the ragweed, and put on their show before the ragweed got large. Well, here it is June, about the time they started blooming last year, and still no ragweed?

Well, I was talking with our 83 year old land owner, who loves all the flowers and was intrigued with the idea of sowing the leach field from the beginning, and found out he's been going out and selectively hitting the ragweed with round up!
That's how in to the idea of the field of Poppies he was!

Here are 2nd year Feverfew (I think from Toofew) and Penstemon smallii (from critter).