Exhibit A once again.
Exhibit C
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Say you move into a property that has far too many flowerbeds filled with overrun plants and you wonder what surprises you may find amongst them. Say you then come across this huge exotic looking plant. Here's another shot of it. This baby is huge! It towers above you and is found all over the property. Some the size of a tree. With leaves this big and the promise of flowers about to bloom, you may think you have some kind of unique tropical plant. Lifting those huge heart-shaped leaves at the bottom, you peer beneath and are excited to discover rubarb growing wild beneath. But I am here to burst your bubble. This is not rubarb. This is rubarb. Which, happily, does grow wild on our property. This is a weed. A very nasty weed. Which if left alone as 90% of the ones on our property have been, will grow to 2 and even 3 metres tall. Now there may be some who would sing the praises of this weed, but those people are lunatics. This weed is no good. If you have it, get rid of it. Fast. If not, it will eventually sprout little flowers that when finished blooming, will go to seed and then drop and spread. Everywhere. Exhibit A once again. The same flowerbed but opposite side. (This is my front flowerbed that I have yet to touch...can you blame me?) Exhibit B No, that is not a lovely garden center piece amongst my bamboo grass...it is a weed. A no good useless weed. Which if you do let grow tall or find them tall on your new property, are impossible to dig up unless you have a backhoe. Seriously, those roots are something like three feet down. The best thing you can do is cut the stem as close to the earth as you can and dispose of the plant. I suggest burning. At the least remove the flowers and burn them. I've been told to poor Javex on the root, so am going to give that a try. Because they will grow back if you don't kill the root. Exhibit C I hacked and pretty much butchered this root to death about a month ago and look how nice and lovely it's grown back . Get rid of them. I am. With axe in hand along with a bottle of Javex, I will concur these good for nothing plants.
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6/28/2011 02:59:30 pm
Darn it but I just HATE weeds like that one. I have loads in my flower bed and sometimes, I do have to let them grow bigger just to make sure that they actually are a weed. Leave a Reply. |