How Does My Southern Garden Grow?: Weeds & Grass

Have you ever noticed how you clean the little weeds out of your garden, you plant your your cute little plants, you fertilize them, mulch them down, water them and those darn weeds grow faster that your plants. I swear I think they come imbeded in the mulch. When you water they send those long, long roots down looking for your very fertile, cultivated soil and they plant themselves and create a weed system all tangled around your nice, cute little plants.

Since I don't have much shade in my back garden I do my major gardening in the late afternoon when the sun is on it's way down. I planted 3 new daylilies this evening, divided and replanted some ajuga and spent the rest of my time (an hour and a half) fighting with the weeds and grass.

Well thanks for listening to that little rant. It's just part of the garden but is entirely exasperating. For the positive I got three of the daylilies down and the ajuga divided and down and I've got all my equipment set up and ready to start in the morning.

Here's a couple of pics of my "Marsh Garden". We had a wet, soggy area where the drains all seemed to lead. Instead of building the entire area up I left the center to back area low so it would stay marshy. We have a camp down in Boothville (right before Venice, LA) and since it's a the tip of the boot of Louisiana there are a lot of marshes. Harry dug up some marsh lilies, another white lily that I've yet to find a name for and some elephants ear and I planated them in this area. I had a pirogue that a friend had built for me many years ago so I turned it upside down in the Marsh Garden and added a small concrete alligator and there is my marsh garden. The front side which is higher is where the daylilies and ajuga are located along with a Sylvestri Date Palm, white irises and some new plantings of yellow Canna Lilies and Lily of the Nile. I'll take more pics when things are in bloom. Tomorrow I'll post pics of the East Citrus Garden.