When my wife and I got back home from a weeks vacation in Sunny Florida our landscaping was over run by weeds. It rained yesterday which left the ground very wet and an ideal day to pull some of those weeds out. I spend four hours pulling weeds and have 1/2 a garbage can full. My perennials are coming up quite nicely now and quite a few of them have spread a bit which is good. I used to put down preen for the weeds but have not done it in the last few years for the backyard, because we have so many perennials that seed themselves and I don't want to kill these free perennials. One of the most prolific perennials that grow from seed for us are black eye Susan's, I must have 30 or more of those little suckers coming up and I am sure more will follow. I also have this annoying grass (bamboo grass) what a mistake to put this in several years ago. It was really neat and when I planted it I contained it so it would not spread however little did I know it spreads from these very pretty seed type pods that grow on it in late summer. I pulled the main plant out after the first year but I must have hundreds of these little grass plants coming up every year and they are a pain to pull out as they have fairly deep and wide roots, even with how wet the ground was today they were still challenging to get out. Another thing I noticed while out in my yard is that my lotus pond plant is starting to grow. I moved it from the main pond where it would not freeze this past winter and put it in it's new home a 10-15 gallon pot of water that looks like a whiskey barrel. I started this plant last year from seed and am glad to see it make it over the winter. Hopefully I will get blooms on it this year. Several of my water lillies have begun to grow as well in the pond. Will have to finish pulling weeds this weekend so that I can get mulch down.
