I won't now but I thought of putting up a partial picket fence on the front corner; I suppose plastic is the way to go now for me even though I much prefer real wood. Anyway, I like the ones that can't think of the word, scalloped, start higher at one post then gently dip and climb again to the next post and so on.
If you are going to be doing seed, you will keep getting new ideas. Look up winter sowing. It is a great way to start seeds to transplant in the spring. The ones that germinate, I just plop in the ground in what they call HOS (hunk of seeds). It works great. I have started in sunroom and hardened off, also have a trick for starting where I want them to grow in very dry ground.
If you post some pictures, please ping me.
I hope it comes true but a man showed up at my front door yesterday who lives on the nicest street around here. He offered to mow everything for me (said the plants will start over) and deal with the last rose that is too much for me. He insisted he won't charge me and it's a one-time thing which is fine with me. I hope it works out. He was going to try to get a helper to bundle rose canes (I've done that, back can't take it for more than a few minutes).
Anyway, I would be happy to pay for somebody to haul it all to the landfill and pay the fee (or if it isn't that much, fill more yard bags and get stickers).
I managed to get one horrible rose all cut up, ended up filling 3 bags full so put stickers on them and set them out. So what do I get as a reward for all my efforts? Poison something. Skin rash. It could be a lot of a tall plant with corn like leaves and tassles and hollow stem I cut tons of that up. Or I had a raspberry volunteer among the mess I worked through yesterday. There was a piece crossing the sidewalk and I whacked it.
Raspberries don't send out flimsy runners like that so maybe it was poison ivy. The raspberry has little thorns but the creeping part didn't seem to so I think it was poison ivy. I was looking for something to put on it. I did wash it well with soap when I came in, but it was too late.
What I said is pokeweed isn't. Similar in height but the seed heads are different. The leaves look like big ruffly corn leaves, have no idea what that stuff is. Don't what to take the time to get a photo and try to get an id as I've cut most of it out now.
Good luck with your garden plans. It gives a little sense of euphoria. A lot of my efforts were rewarded but I do not have what it takes to maintain it all and the weed problem is just too much here.
I'm getting some grass b gone from amazon but do not feel like mixing more Roundup if I don't have to. It's mainly good for bigger jobs. Spot treating with it is too tricky and tedious. And cleaning my sprayer, I need to rinse very well and be careful where I dump the rinse water.
I did that same thing last week to a lady whose yard needed mowing. My mower had worked fine the day before, then when I started mowing hers. it kept dying. Put a new air filter, and spark plug on it, then it worked..But, of course by then it was 93 degrees outside, and her weeds were about 18 inches tall, so I had to finish it the next day.
Her daughter drove by, and asked who I was..blah blah, blah, How did I know her Mom.
I just told her I saw her Mom picking up sticks in the yard, the day before, and I stopped and told her I was going to mow her lawn because it needed doing, aand I'd give her the name of the lawn guy who does front and back for 20 bucks for the next time it needs mowing.
The Mom was obviously cognitively impaired as she thought she'd just moved in this past January. She moved in January 2012. She also kept asking me the same things over and over.
One of my neighbors has one of those scalloped fences. Last year he had lots of flowers, but this year, it's all grass.
In my Donkey Dreams, I'd have something like this:
