in which there are exploding plant populations.

[chris_warrior]

in addition to finishing up the renovations to my bedroom, i've been doing a lot of work on the gardens. new things:

Carmine Jewel tart cherry shrubs/dwarf trees (2). i installed these not that far from the pond, and intend to get rid of more grass on that side of the property this year. they actually came with cherries attached, so i'll get to see what they taste like this year... assuming the birds let me.

more lilacs: white, darker purple with a white edge, and a dark pink one. all dug in near the garage/edge of house. i need to finish moving the asparagus out of the bed, and then make sure i can get milkweed established back in the corner of the lot, so i can finish taking it out of the garage bed.

strawberries (??) expanding in the backyard. i WISH i thought these were actual full-size strawberries, but i think they're the wild small-berry-with-tons-of-seeds variety. i let them expand because i was hoping they were the remnants of the strawberry plants i put in ages ago, but now that they've grown to a 15x15 patch, and i don't have berries, i think they need to come out.

the raspberries need to be knocked back, like whoah.

the blackberries won't die. despite trying to take them out because they haven't flowered/appear to have mosaic virus, they keep coming back. gah.

the apples are doing well.

the oak i put in seems to be determined to keep trying to come back, after the rabbits unexpectedly decimated it.

the gladiolus i thought i moved from the back bed to the front... somehow rebounded. so now i have gladiolus in the front AND the back. but i want my raised bed open for planting vegetables *sigh*

in a similar vein, i need to do something about the garlic i've planted. it's achieved weed status.