What's New: Peonies, Daisies & Mushrooms!

I'm not sure how keen you are to read all about my website rebuilding for clients... right now there are new assignments backing up!

But I know that my flower photos go over well, and I just remembered that my Peonies are blooming this week, and I've already taken photos of them.

It takes a bit of time to re-size them for putting here, but...oh well, let's go for it!

Red and pink peonies (in the background)all behind daisies!

Closeup of the pink peonies and daisies in front of my bedroom window.

Yes, smile back at these smiling daisies! Don't they just make you smile?

Here is a curious sight! See those mushrooms on the ground? They want to be thought of as daisies too....

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How to Pull Up Weeds

Ever pull up your weeds, or do you just chop off the upper portion?

I believe it was my Dad who taught me to pull up the whole weed, roots and all. That almost guarantees that it will not grow there again. (Unless a bit of the root stays in the soil).

A friend came to help me pull the weeds in the alley, right where my gate swings open, but the weeds had got so tall that the swinging aluminum gate was hanging up on the weeds.

My friend/helper tried to pull them up but found it too hard. So he asked for a grass whip. I had not seen mine in a long time, but I found it in my tool bin, and brought it to him. I observed that he was chopping off the weeds leaving about 2 inches above ground.

I didn't want to be rude but that meant that in a few weeks I will have to pull them up in "my way" again.

I sat down, straddling my stool, reached out and grabbed the next big green weed with both hands near the ground, and gave it two or three strong pulls - up it came, root-ball and all. I dropped it my big white bucket and reached for the next weed. A while later when we went in, hot and tired, he said to me, "You put me to shame. I had no idea you had such strong hands."

I could only answer, "Well, my Dad always insisted that I pull up weeds or unwanted tall grasses, by the roots. Weeds will come up again, but it takes them longer to get established if we pull them up completely."

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