Posted in Bad plants, Daily Life, tagged cottonwood, ka-boom, lightning, tree on June 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Verily, our tree was smote from above!
First off, everyone hates us this time of year because we have a HUGE cottonwood tree in the backyard. This tree was growing way before they built our house in the 1920’s but no one cares. All they see are the tufts of cottonwood seeds floating down into their [...]
Posted in Bad plants, tagged bad plant, dandelion, food, leafy greens, weeds on November 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Yup. Found this perky little fellow blooming for all it’s worth the other day. Seems to be pretty frost resistant, as we’ve had a few chilly nights. Guess that’s why they are so successful (especially in my yard…the neighbors hate me for this…oh, and the cottonwood tree in the spring, but that’s a whole ‘nother [...]
Posted in Bad plants, tagged garden, messy, weeds on September 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
OK, maybe, just maybe, it’s time for me to consider weeding the patch out back. This was meant to be either a vegetable or native plant garden this past year. As you can see, um, that didn’t exactly happen. I’m using the term “garden” very loosely here, although it does have a wooden boundary around [...]
Posted in Bad plants, Insect, tagged Insect, wasp, weeds on September 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A few weekends ago, I was out mucking about in what I loosely call a garden and noticed an odd thing. I had let the weeding go for quite a while and then we had buckets of rain, so the weeds were towering over my sad, rabbit eaten hostas. It was a bit overwhelming, so I just tucked in and [...]
Posted in Bad plants, tagged invasive, plant, weeds on August 12, 2007 | No Comments »
So, I am out looking around at the plants growing by the railroad tracks and I notice a bunch of purple flowers I had never noticed before. I shot a few photos (with my crummy camera) and think, “what pretty flowers” and head inside to ID them.
Imagine my horror when I discover the plant I [...]
