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.

[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

amazing what a different climate will do to a plant. i remember seeing monstrous poinsettas in sunny florida at xmas, and being stunned by them.

Samkitty's been doing a lot of redecorating 'round here as well. time to step up the brushing and the hairball treatments.

i hope your weekend didn't totally derail into madness!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ugh, cleaning up after that stuff is awful, isn't it?

Jackie has a couple of special twists. One is that she never leaves fewer than about a dozen spots. She just can't stop once she gets going. The other is that she has some serioualy rude digestive problem, quite possibly IBD, and every time she has a fit like this she also misses the litterbox with her other end. I am soooo glad there's linoleum in that room.

I got it all cleaned up, and just now Duchess got started. Sigh. No more long-haired cats after this! No more!

[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

::thinking outside the box::

Maybe you could bring the plant inside, and it could take over the cat-decorated areas. Then at least you'd only have one of these problems!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Alternatively, if I let the cats out the plant might hold them hostage, and then the only cleanup spot would be on the concrete!