There goes the careful schedule

[cjsmith]

1. I just spent OVER AN HOUR on pruning the dusty miller alone. My goodness, how that stuff grows! I remember it as a tiny little well-behaved plant, but that was in New England. Here it's waist-high, and y'know how some plants crowd out neighboring ones and kill them? This patch is making takeover bids for the concrete. I think it's winning.

2. Jackie-cat decorated the house again last night. Oh Joy. And there was much rejoicing cleanup.

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[billeyler.livejournal.com]

Dusty Miller here is also a smallish plant, because it has serious dieback in the cold winters here. I have some planted in pots in front that survived from last year, but they're pretty scroungy looking and CERTAINLY not like a hedge! Hope you were able to tame to beast a bit!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I think that's exactly the key: our winters aren't cold enough to pound this stuff into submission. Heck, all sorts of stuff I knew as annuals don't die here.