Days of yucca and roses…and weeds
With seemingly unending cleanup from the February ice storm, which entailed much tree work (more is still needed), a roof repair, A/C replacement, and a side fence replacement, plus extra pruning-back necessitated by the damaging December freeze — whew! — I’ve gotten behind on the usual spring gardening chores. My most hated chore is weeding, and boy, does it show in the lower garden. Still, I manage to avert my eyes most days and just enjoy the sight of Koosh-ball yuccas and pink ‘Peggy Martin’ roses clambering along the fence.
Spiky yuccas and the Katrina rose are happy companions in a sunny patch. Why plant a rose you have to spray and spray when you can grow a disease-resistant variety like ‘Peggy Martin’, which has such an amazing survival story too? Click the Katrina link if you don’t know it.
The ‘Frazzle Dazzle’ dyckias have also started blooming! Is there anything cuter than these mop-top dyckias with honey-yellow bloom spikes? The deer eat the flowers out front, but I can enjoy them for days and days in my back garden.
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Weed? What weeds? I see a yucca-rose-fence (!) combo that is delightful, with vibrant chartreuse ground cover.
(I actually find weeding calming, but when a to-do list is long and pressing it can become an unwelcome chore).
Yessssss, a vibrant chartreuse groundcover. You fixed it!
Rostrata and roses are a beautiful combo.
Sounds like you’ve had your hands full and your time taken up with important home repairs–I would think a functioning AC system with a Texas summer approaching would be high on the list–weeds would have to wait!
Nothing is higher on the to-do list for this summer-shunning Texan than a functioning AC.