Ducks ALIVE in 2025!

[ducks4you]

It must drop hundreds of seeds.
REALLY the very best killer of these weeds in your yard is cardboard.
I KNOW it sounds like, "leave the problem for the Next person to solve," BUT, that keeps them from going to seed and getting Waaayyyyy out of control.
If will Never bash anybody for poisoning these plants.

 

[flowerbug]

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I am afraid no blooms for my Amaryllis THIS year.
Looks like only more leaves. Still, THEY are Healthy leaves. I think that I should have let the Fall leaves die back. I cut them back, hoping to revive it and get flowers in the winter. Certainly the inTention of the grower who glued it to a board last year was to Let it die after Christmas 2023 and have me buy a new one.
No bother. I Guess I'll keep it going, put it outside on the north side of the house come late Mayish, and let it get some sunshine and breeze, bring it inside Septemberish and try again for more flowers Next year. **le sigh**

any bulbing plants get energy from those leaves dying back so cutting them off reduces any energy they may have for forming a flower. this is why daffodils, tulips, onions, garlic, etc. they say to only remove leaves after they've died back or most of the leaves have faded. Mom hates that look but unless we're trying to get rid of them i leave them leaves alone.

 

[flowerbug]

Myosotis sylvatica is an invasive perennial. LINK

It is here along the border, even in my yard before I arrived and continuing. LINK

Yes, Summers in a dry climate with several hundred feet of glacial till beneath the soil means a need for irrigation. There's no getting around it unless I want to grow only cheat grass and sage brush.

i went to look for forget-me-nots and mistyped forget-me-notes...