Well, things are not all well here at the farm with some of our new plantings. Dad loves flowers ... reminds him of all the flowers his mom had planted outside the kitchen door and around the yard at their Shenandoah Valley Farm where he grew up. He is constantly coming home with something new to plant. Saturday before last, he brought home 3 small Donald Lyman lilac bushes (leaf buds with just a touch of green) & two camellia bushes. I planted them for him and everything has been growing great - we noticed the other day that the little lilac bushes had leafed out & looked like they were lovin’ life in their new ‘sunny spot’ homes.
We also have an ‘ancient’ yard .... not much grass really, mostly weeds. We’re in the country and having a grass lawn isn’t all that practical - we can’t really water it and when the dry summer days hit, the weeds stay greener than grass .... you just keep them cut so they don’t ‘bloom’ or go to seed. Dad has this thing lately about spraying the weeds ... so, he got some sort of ‘pasture spray’ and has been putting it on the yard. Yesterday, I noticed that one of the little lilacs is looking very peculiar - curled leaves, a little wilty, etc. The spray evidently drifted and got the little bush. The other two lilacs are also showing a tiny bit of the curl/wilt, but not as bad. I hope these little lilacs can survive - just makes me sick to think they may not make it. BTW, love my dad, but at his age you can’t tell him anything ... if he wants to spray for weeds, by golly he’s spraying for weeds & he’s using whatever he wants to use. We just keep our fingers crossed and pray for the best. :-)
We also have an ‘ancient’ yard .... not much grass really, mostly weeds. We’re in the country and having a grass lawn isn’t all that practical - we can’t really water it and when the dry summer days hit, the weeds stay greener than grass .... you just keep them cut so they don’t ‘bloom’ or go to seed.
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OMW, you described my yard. We have 1.5 acre in a semirural area. I refer to the assorted weeds as “the lawn greens”.