I know this is a little off topic, but I need to vent. A few years ago, I decided to rip out the old, overgrown juniper bushes in the flower beds in front of my house. I replaced them with lots of perennials, including stargazer lilies, peonies, columbine, clematis, butterfly bush, and purple cone-flowers. To make the beds look pretty, I also laid down a few cubic yards of shredded wood mulch. It was a beautiful thing.
Flash forward 5 years, and 2 kids later. Did you know that purple cone-flowers shed thousands (millions?) of stupid seeds every year? Do you know what those seeds do in pretty shredded wood mulch? I wound up with flower beds of nothing but purple cone-flowers! Argh! I want variety! And, with 2 little boys, I don't have time to weed!
So, early this spring, I dug out ALL of the old wood mulch and purple cone-flowers from the 3 beds around my house. I had a few wheelbarrows full of the stuff. (The other perennials remain).
I am an avid gardener. Where did I put the old purple cone-flowers and spent wood mulch? In my compost pile. Life was good. I dutifully spread my compost on my garden, and tilled it in. My garden was doing okay, even with all of the rain and cool temperatures we've had.
However, there are these peculiar weeds growing all over my garden. It almost looks like someone sowed them, there are so many weeds. And, it's not crabgrass, creeping charlie, or any of the normal culprits that inhabit my garden. Imagine my surprise when I realized what they were - those stupid purple cone-flowers....
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At our house we have these stupid orange day lillies. We call them compost flowers because that is where we first saw them growing. Brian mows them over with the lawn mower, but they don't have sense enough to die....Do you want some???
Yes, I would love some more s**t to compost, and things that don't have enough sense to die!!! It would go well with the creeping charlie and daisies in my ditch!!
Sorry....I can be a bit melodramatic at times. Too bad I can't mow over my garden, and teach those purple cone flowers a lesson they won't soon forget.
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