Back behind the compost bins, I discovered fall color in the seed heads of Chenopodium album.
I am a lazy gardener for not pulling out these plants months ago before they even got close to setting seed. After all, this is the very common weed, lamb's quarters.
I'd better hurry and pull them out now, though, before someone accuses me of being a softy when it comes to weeds in the garden.
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Showing posts with label weeds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weeds. Show all posts
Weeding: A series of minor victories
Not bindweed, probably morning glory
"Miss Marple bent down on the terrace outside the french window and dealt with some insidious bindweed. It was only a minor victory, since beneath the surface the bindweed remained in possession as always. But at least the delphiniums knew a temporary deliverance." ~ Agatha Christie in Sleeping Murder.
A minor victory, a temporary deliverance, that's what
The dream of a weed-free garden
"As I walked around my garden, I slowly began to realize that I had finally achieved my goal of a weed-free garden.
I walked along the path I call Ridgewood Avenue, looking at the garden border called Woodland Follies on my right and Autumn Dreams Gardens on my left. I saw no weeds in either border. Plus, not only was the path free of weeds, but it seemed time-worn, as though it had been
A call to weed
There comes a time when you must plunge into the depths of the garden border and pull the weeds.
Pull the thistle rising above the rest of the flowers, catching it just as it is ready to burst into bloom and spew its seed about the garden. No matter that it is growing up through the middle of a massive rose. Pull it out.
Pull the perennial sweet pea vines creeping along the ground, snaking
My garden speaks to me about weeds
Achillea millefolium Tutti Frutti 'Pineapple Mango'
My garden speaks to me and says, "Carol, your destiny is to weed".
No revelation there, everyone's garden tells them the same thing. "You must weed".
It matters not what we do in the garden. How much we mulch. How careful we are with not disturbing the soil, lest we expose weed seeds that have been lying dormant under ground, seeds that
Star-of-Bethlehem Discovered in Woodland Follies
INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- On a quiet afternoon, Ms. Carol M. Indygardener was tending to her garden, mostly marking out new beds in the vegetable garden, when she noticed a pretty, white, almost shiny flower amidst a group of other spring blooms in the garden she likes to call Woodland Follies.
In a bit of a rush, Ms. Indygardener did not at first recognize the bloom but later confirmed its identity
In a bit of a rush, Ms. Indygardener did not at first recognize the bloom but later confirmed its identity
Guest Post: Garden Fairies Discuss HUG Activities
Garden fairies here.
We are garden fairies and we want to discuss the HUG activity, the weeding, that has taken place this spring here at May Dreams Gardens.
But first things first, we would like to mention how much we are enjoying the Dianthus that Carol planted along the edges of the flower beds that border the patio. We garden fairies really like this flower where as before we were not
The Gardener and the Mighty Dandelion
There in the garden, the wild dandelion was trapped, cornered, easy prey for the gardener, who swooped down upon it and with her bare hands pulled it out of the rain-softened earth.
She was delighted at her kill, how long the root was! Ah, sweet victory!
She flung the dandelion to the sidewalk to bake unprotected in the late afternoon sun. It was at least a four-pointer, measured by the
She was delighted at her kill, how long the root was! Ah, sweet victory!
She flung the dandelion to the sidewalk to bake unprotected in the late afternoon sun. It was at least a four-pointer, measured by the
There is just one mayapple
Podophyllum peltatum
There is just one mayapple.
I should pull up this one mayapple like it is a weed. It might take over my woodland wildflower garden.
I never planned to have mayapples in my woodland wildflower garden. It's a hitchhiker, a hobo, catching a ride with another wildflower that I saved from the woods-turned-into-a-lake.
There is just one mayapple.
In the woods where the
Loudon's Rules of Horticulture, Rule No. 7
And I quote from Garden-Making: Suggestions for the Utilization of Home Grounds by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1898),
“Persons who follow the entertaining writings of Mr. A. B. Tarryer (a pseudonym for a well-known experimenter) in “American Garden,” a few years back, will recall the great variety of implements which he advised for the purpose of extirpating his hereditary foes, the weeds.”
That's all
“Persons who follow the entertaining writings of Mr. A. B. Tarryer (a pseudonym for a well-known experimenter) in “American Garden,” a few years back, will recall the great variety of implements which he advised for the purpose of extirpating his hereditary foes, the weeds.”
That's all
Purple Deadnettle
Purple Deadnettle
My heart races and my mind goes in a thousand directions at once when I step outside and see what seems like every plant blooming at once.
Daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses, snowdrops, star flower, glory of the snow, pansies, violas, forsythia, star magnolia, red maples, and purple deadnettle are all in full bloom.
Leaves are coming out for this spring madness of warm weather,
Welcome, Dandelions
Look closely to see the garden fairies disguised as dandelions
I never realized when I ordered All in a Garden Fair by Alice T. A. Quackenbush (A. T. De Le Mare Company, Inc., 1925) that I would discover important information on the relationships between some flowers and garden fairies.
I had no idea that learning of that relationship would forever change how I think of that peskiest of weeds