Friday, October 15, 2010

Tour of Yard - surprise found -

At last I am caught up. It is Friday and I am posting for Friday.

I did my morning tour of the yard and found a pleasant surprise. There is a new single dark pink daisy-type mum in bloom. I have no idea where it came from. It is growing at the base of a large stump and behind a sedum I would never have planted anything there. Do mums self seed? Another gardening mystery to drive me crazy.

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The Hummingbird Bed by the back door is full of white snakeroot that I let bloom. Now it will be harder than ever to get rid of. I didn't plant it. It grows in the roadside ditches everywhere. I looks pretty but will soon take over the world. I will resort to herbicides next spring.
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At this point the bed is a hodgepodge, but that is probably the best way to describe my gardening style anyway.

This next is what I call the 'Grace (smoke tree)Bed'. It is practically hidden from view. I call the entire area 'the hidden garden'. It has the smoke tree, some day lilies in cream with a burgundy eye, Rosy Glow Barberry, two white crepe myrtles that haven't bloomed yet, a few odd mums and the star of the show, the dark red mum.
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I see the dreaded dead nettle/henbit is back with a vengeance. It forms a complete ground cover where there is any bare ground.

Wish you all could join me. I am working on the second pot of coffee and DH has gone to town to find an upholstery shop to do some work on our old (but stylish)1990 Pontiac.

5 comments:

  1. Those pink mums would delight me too and I love your style of gardening, it's the way I garden also. I think in polite terms they call it 'cottage style'. :-)

    Have a great weekend. FlowerLady

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  2. I love those volunteer mums, and the others are nice looking, too. I am a huge hodge podger/cottage gardener. Yours looks great to me, snakeroot and all. I looked it up, and it is pretty. I'm assuming you know it's poisonous to animals.

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  3. I wish I could join you, too!!

    I am struggling to keep things watered here. They think we might get some rain Tuesday.

    I hope after today I'll be done with pears...

    XOXOXO

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  4. Just got caught up on your postings-the pink mums are such a pretty shade of pink-nice surprise!

    Your newly paved road looks really great-bet you are glad to get the potholes fixed.

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  5. I'm going to try again next year to get my perenial beds going. The deer eat us out of house and home here on Granny Mountain. Irks me to no end to plant flowers only to see them as the 5 o'clock buffet! That burgandy mum is just gorgeous. Love the red, white and blue plantings in that flowerbed too!

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