I was feeling bad that everything was dead but look what I found under last year's dead weeds!!
Here's the part where I need help. See these 3 plants? They make a number of appearances in the flower bed. I need to know if they should be pulled up or tended to.
The one on the left looks familiar to me, not sure if that means it's a flower or that it's poisonous. On the bottom right we have a plant that is not Digitalis but has spread and is now a sort of ground cover all along the back half of the bed. What i need to know is if it was on purpose or not. The top right is just a bad picture :/ the leaves look kind of like roses meet shamrocks. will they turn into flowers or just be weeds? So many questions!Also, if anyone knows anything about grapevines, we have a mess here and all I know is they should probably not be allowed to continue climbing the pine tree or encroaching further onto the yard.
2 comments:
The one on the left looks like a weed to me. I would pull them out and plant something I recognized in its place. The bottom right is a ground cover which will bloom purple flowers. I can't remember what it is called. I would leave it or transplant it and let it spread some where else I didn't want to mow. The top right may be either columbines or bleeding hearts. Maybe I should fly out there and see for myself. Either way, I would let them grow. I don't know about the grapevines, except you could make wreaths for all your many windows. And I could be making this all up because I am jealous of your daffodil sprouts.
And I love you.
elizabeth commented on your blog, so here i am :) i enjoyed the couple posts i read, and your photos. i'm glad you are asking questions before you just pull things up or hack them down! i tend to just pull and break before i think, "oh, that might be something that's supposed to be here." when we first moved in here, i broke off a bunch of branches on a tree (it was november so it was brittle enough) b/c it was kinda blocking a path i was trying to walk repeatedly through. turned out it was an orange azalea tree. oops. it's starting to grow back. my consolation is that my mother-in-law was the originator of the idea and was helping me to break branches off and she knows more than i do about plants (which, by the way, is nothing) and my other consolation is that deciduous trees tend to grow back :) oh wait, i do know more than nothing about plants. i know one thing: i like perennials that the previous owner planted (and that i didn't accidentally kill already).
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