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| Where do the weeds end and the plants begin? | Wow... hardly anything left... |
After three days of weeding the front flower bed, it's finally weed-free.
Yes, three days to take a jungle of weeds down to what now feels like a puny amount of plants. Those weeds were thick, lush, and green! Hopefully the vegetation remaining -- that we intentionally planted -- will now have more resources for themselves and will grow faster (like weeds, perhaps).
This small project really made me realize that I could have a complete '30 before 30: yard edition' project. There's so very much to do out there, with no end in sight. Ugh.
But successes are successes and should be celebrated. '30 before 30' project objective #12: Complete!
1 comments:
Isn't that the weirdest thing about how weeds grow so well, without ever being watered or tended to... and the other stuff has to be babied simply in order to bloom with a few posies once in awhile.
I've often wondered... who deemed weeds "weeds" and who deemed flowers "flowers"? And whose bright idea was it that the easy-to-grow stuff was the greenery that had to be pulled up & thrown away the minute it reared its "ugly" head and the other stuff was allowed to stay & even coveted and bought with our hard-earned dollars, with much attention paid to it after it's planted?
I don't think that person's idea was very bright whatsoever!!!
Love~ Maw-Daw
PS~ I have a bed of "weeds" in my back garden area.... with lovely brick trim around it. Mrs. Campbell gave a few starts to me years ago, before they moved, and I planted it & it's spread and grown beautifully. It blooms with lovely blue flowers every autumn & I just LOVE the stuff. Well, when Nan was sick & that woman from the church came to help me with my yard, she pulled every single last one of those "flowers" out & threw them in the woods. My heart was broken! I asked her why she did it and she named the type of WEED those "flowers" were. Anyway, she felt so bad that she went out into the woods, got my treasured "flowers", and replanted every one of them. They look beautiful and ARE beautiful to me... and I don't care if they're a weed or not. They're treasured flowers to me, from a very special friend. <3 <3 <3
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