Not sure who may need this song today. It might be me

[The Polack MSgt]

[lark]

1. Feeling strong today, finally won my battle with the hellvines in my azaleas. Woohoo!!

These huge pain inflicting vines of evil grow up amid plants with canes and are so difficult to find and get out. Oh, and while you are doing searching for them, you have to be so careful or they kill you with their poison and thorns. Another of their favorite tricks is to grow inside another vine so you put your hands on the non-offender and get totally killed by the long killer thorns hiding in their midsts. They make it impossible to work in the yard without really thick strong gloves. Of course I live in NE. FL. where growing things that can handle heat & humidity flourish.

But - for today - I won and they lost many years of growth. Can't get the tuber out, so it will come back eventually, but my front azaleas are much healthier without it and it looks soooo much better.

[The Polack MSgt]

2. Win! You sound committed to a beautiful garden. I just try to wrestle my yard into respectability

I don't want to be "that" neighbor after all.

I respect the folks who can keep a landscape presentable

[lark]

3. I just love flowers and mainly work on the flowering or ornamental plants/bushes.

Have to keep the weeds down so the plants are pretty and flower better. We certainly would never be thought to have a planned yard, nothing fancy at all, just plants and flowers given by mom as well as some we've bought and installed over the years. Living in one place for 30 years allows one to enjoy the fruits of their labors. For example I planted a few (4-5) of mom's ginger plants among the trees to the side of our house and now we have a huge ginger patch which smells so good when they're blooming and fills up that whole area which was too shady for good grass.