An Update On the Front Garden

Yes! The weather is finally cool enough at night and in the mornings that I can really start working in the yard again. Let's hear it for an early fall, folks!

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In case anyone thought I was dead or for some other reason wasn't interested in gardening anymore (if anyone is, in fact, actually reading this blog and also giving a crap), here are a couple of pics

Before:

SEPTEMBER 2013

APRIL 2014

Last September, I cleared out most of the Yarrow that persists in taking over the entire front garden.  As you can see, only seven months later, it was already filling in - and four months after that (i.e. yesterday) it had grown into what looked like the corner of an abandoned lot. 

I'm sick of doing that every year. 

Seriously, you guys, from here on out, as far as Texas goes,* I'm all about little-to-no maintenance. 

And so:  

Yesterday evening, just before sunset (when the temperature was a balmy and cool...um...92º), I ripped out ALL OF THE YARROW.  Things to know: 

• I'm planning to put another rose bush on the east (left, in the picture) side of the garden to balance out the big white/yellow one on the west (right) side
• This time I'm going to keep after the damned garden with the hoe and make sure the effing Yarrow doesn't get a foothold again.  
• The statue belongs to my recent roomate, who has moved out of state, and left it here until such time as she can figure out how to ship it to herself without it costing an arm and a leg.  Meanwhile, many thanks to my neighbor's boyfriend, who saw me struggling to get the thing onto a dolly last night and very kindly wheeled it to the garden and propped it up in place for me with his man muscles. 
• Bermuda grass actually goes semi-dormant in the summers here, because of the heat.  It'll green up again when fall truly hits. 
• Did you know Irises could talk? They say OH MY GOD WOMAN DIVIDE US ALREADY!!

* Um...nothing.  

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