Anemic Anemone / Weeds
Six, maybe seven folks (e.g. everyone who looks at this blog) have been teasing me about how I started off last year's gardening and then stopped. Yeah, well. I am developing a serious hatred of our back yard. No matter what I do, no matter how thorough the weeding, deep the mulch, etc. I still get the same @#%!#$ weeds in the same places and quantities and after six years, I'm losing patience. The worst are the buckthorn saplings. They have to be pulled individually. Even with gloves on with grips, they still sometimes just lose their outer coating and then have to be dug up. Fine. Except that they usually grow right in the plants I want to keep. Adequate weeding usually equals excessive loss of what I want.
Point in case: planted 30 anemone. In 2005, 8 plants, 3 blooms. Can't remember 2006. 2007, 4, maybe 5 plants, 3 blooms and all surrounded by the @#$!@# buckthorns and some unremovable broadleaf weed. Anemone are supposed to naturalize and spread. They, like nearly everything else I plant within a 10-15' radius of the tree, fail to perform to expectations and I'm just so very tired of it. I told Barney I was going to pulll up everything in the back I cared about and put it in the front. Then, all the sod in the front that would have be dug up could be put in the back and it would just be a yard. He says he likes the beds in the back and will help me weed and mulch. We'll see how he feels at the end of the summer...
