he looks charming - not even my saints keep the winter cold away... even though I did have Lantana bloom all year this year right up by the house, so they might of helped a little... ummm had not thoguht of that!
Texans - What is the worst garden thug you have planted?
They said on our local news in SA that the temps we're having are July temps...winter pretty much passed us by didn't it?
Winter, Spring, . . . reminds me of my years in Mexico.
Gosh, Mitch, I would have been happy to throw some nutgrass in with your daylilies if I had known you were so deprived... LOL
That is MORE the ok... I just know that one of these day a RU plant will have a seed and that seed will grow and grow and grow all weeds come in a matter of time. Until then I have Bermuda I am fighting... so dont worry I am not on easy yet.
If anyone wants to choose a chemical control for bermuda as a last resort, Grass-B-Gone does a great job. It is grass specific and will not kill nor damage most garden plants. It is safe for use around most ornamentals, ground covers, evergreens and shrubs. The label lists plants that it will damage. I have used it to kill bermuda in areas where I am unable to pull or dig it up such as in sidewalk cracks, around plants that I do not want to disturb their roots, street asphalt, from inder landscape timbers, etc. When killing bermuda from around plants that I am afraid that it might hurt, isolate the bermuda by placing a small box from which I have removed the bottom over the bermuda. Then, I spray it so that any overspray and the fumes are contained in the box. I leave the box there until the Grass-B-Gone dries. Other times, I place a piece of cardboard between the other plant and the bermuda to act as a barrier. Sometimes I apply the Grass-B-Gone with a small brush.
Thanks for the tip htop!!!! I'll need to keep bermuda out of the mulched raised veg garden.
Grass-Be-Gone does do great - but I have found new seedlings in the beds again and again and again... ortho is the stock to buy at this rate!
note to self: go buy grass be gone.
honeysuckle (exception the native coral) , catnip, apple mint, yellow water iris,4 oclocks
Good ones, Jackie. I planted the yellow water iris (Pseudacoris) in one of my beds about 9 years ago. It, of course, got bigger and bigger, then travelled across the drainage bed made of river rock into my neighbor's yard. I dug my side out and got rid of it. Now, years later, it is coming back my way, and I am having to dig it up all over again. (Make note to self: complain to neighbor about her Pseudacoris!)
CJ
CJ,
If it was originally your plant she might not mind you removing it for her? Never heard of that plant. SOOO glad to have this thread so I can avoid some more mistakes.
LOL I was being facetious about complaining to the neighbor. It looks great in HER yard. And she's a new neighbor - doesn't know the history of the thug and where it came from. I'm certainly not going to tell her!
CJ
removing 4 leafed clover that had overrun a shallow lily pond
OMG! that is a thug!