Spring - Beauty and Beast - Part 2 - Beast

I did get the Miscanthus planted after two weekends plus the intervening evenings after work...had to do some quick and dirty retaining of the hillside so they wouldn't wash down the hill. But, the poor 'Moudrey' still sits in its bin, as does a large clump of the common orange daylily, Hemerocallis fulva that had to be dug up to get the mugwort out. I only hope I can get back to it before these plants give up the ghost. Plus, I want to move a huge stand of phlox and a goodly number of a Shasta daisy back there as I don't like them where they are. They should have been dug and moved yesterday...

Time Still Passing

Some clean up has been accomplished in the course of these little projects, but the worst is yet to do. Another weekend was spent "renovating" what passes for our lawn. At its best it is simply more or less green and mowed. But, it's been getting worse and worse and this year something simply had to be done. That something took another weekend of mowing, raking, hauling soil mix to fill in low patches, reseeding and fertilizing. This should have been done in early April, but it wasn't and the ongoing watering is getting quite tedious. I do believe I see some signs of germination - finally!

Weeds

Not only are my beloved plants growing apace, but the not so beloved early weeds are outstripping them. I know we all have winners in our "Most Hated Weed" category. Mine are the cool season sprouters who germinate in fall and grow slowly through the winter so as to be ready to put on that extra spurt of growth and start seeding madly all over the place as soon as the weather warms up enough for the gardener to venture outdoors.

Vying for top billing on my hated weed list is Poa annua, annual bluegrass. I loathe this plant. In this emotion, I'm not alone as it is one of the most loathed pests of golf course greens. It's impervious to herbicides obtainable by the average human and those few that work must be applied at precisely the right moment in its growth to work. Seed is viable the moment a flower matures and scatters far and wide. Walking on it helps to scatter the seed. It starts life as frog hair fine green blades, too small to

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