We bought this house in April 2015 and the front flowerbed is choked with Bishop's Weed. At first I was thinking "Great! Low maintenance!" but not anymore. Now I'm thinking I want something much prettier in the little garden adorning the front of my house. There is a really nice hosta and a lily in there somewhere but they just get bullied out by these weeds. Even the sprinklers are buried under there somewhere and I have to constantly pull weeds so the sprinklers can actually spray the lawn. I do believe there is a place for vigorous ground covering plants but a potentially cute front flower bed is not the place. This stuff creeps into the lawn, between the steps and drops seeds like mad in spring. I've been in crazy mode trying to keep it under control. Anyway, we'll be digging out the roots the next nice weekend and dealing with this elephant on the yard.
We also have these beautiful vines that grow up along the deck posts in the back yard. I love them but if I don't keep those under control, the place looks like something from a horror movie. Last summer, obviously too late in the summer, I went out to trim them and they had spread over to the neighbor's back parking area and were making their way around their yard. I was horrified....I didn't even know the neighbors yet! Needless to say, I trimmed them immediately.
Now, I'm not blaming previous owners at all. In fact, after we'd lived in the house for about a month, we found out that this was a show home back in 2001 when this neighborhood was in it's infancy. That would explain fast-growing plants among a few other quirky things that I won't get into.
I love this house. I wished we could've moved here sooner... although I miss our old neighborhood like crazy. I guess working out things on your house and yard are just part of the journey of making your house your home.
I wonder if Johnny Depp would enjoy kielke and schmontfat?
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