Sounds like the weather out here! I haven't figured out what they do NOT have.
Morning glories: they CAN be noxious weeks in this country too. Guess it's all a matter of perspective. One year when I had outdoor gardens I'd gone out of town for a week and came back to morning glories holding all my veggies hostage at vine-point. It was a tangled MESS and I spent the rest of the season battling them. They made themselves a particular nuisance with the peas. I swear their leaves morphed into the same shape as those peas!
However, we live in a city now with precious little space, so now they're a thing of beauty and I actually PAID for a packet of morning glory seeds! They really are pretty...in their place. LOL
Still, I've always been a sucker for weeds. Some are so pretty and overlooked just because they're abundant. One of my favorite things is dandelions, but if your yard is "unkempt" enough to grow dandelions and you live in a half-decent place, the city will come and make you cut your grass. Very sad. I think the grass is at perfect height when the yard can fill up with those bright yellow, happy dandelion flowers! (all yellow flowers are my friends)
Pansies...love 'em. They were the first flower a boy ever brought me. His name was Adam. They were purple. He was around 10 and had them hidden behind his back and we promised not to tell any of our friends how I got them. (he picked them from his mom's yard with her permission) because neither of us wanted to get teased for liking each other, so we kept it secret. Very sweet kid. But despite being poor myself, I turned snob on him because his dad was a truckdriver, he said he wanted to do the same, and I had higher aspirations for my life as at that point I'd been taught that women stayed home and husbands worked, so I figured my future husband should have a really high paying job.
Never forgot those flowers...or him. Hope he found someone worthy of him and I'm guessing she gets lots of love and flowers. LOL And half of his sandwich at lunch.
Morning glories: they CAN be noxious weeks in this country too. Guess it's all a matter of perspective. One year when I had outdoor gardens I'd gone out of town for a week and came back to morning glories holding all my veggies hostage at vine-point. It was a tangled MESS and I spent the rest of the season battling them. They made themselves a particular nuisance with the peas. I swear their leaves morphed into the same shape as those peas!
However, we live in a city now with precious little space, so now they're a thing of beauty and I actually PAID for a packet of morning glory seeds! They really are pretty...in their place. LOL
Still, I've always been a sucker for weeds. Some are so pretty and overlooked just because they're abundant. One of my favorite things is dandelions, but if your yard is "unkempt" enough to grow dandelions and you live in a half-decent place, the city will come and make you cut your grass. Very sad. I think the grass is at perfect height when the yard can fill up with those bright yellow, happy dandelion flowers! (all yellow flowers are my friends)
Pansies...love 'em. They were the first flower a boy ever brought me. His name was Adam. They were purple. He was around 10 and had them hidden behind his back and we promised not to tell any of our friends how I got them. (he picked them from his mom's yard with her permission) because neither of us wanted to get teased for liking each other, so we kept it secret. Very sweet kid. But despite being poor myself, I turned snob on him because his dad was a truckdriver, he said he wanted to do the same, and I had higher aspirations for my life as at that point I'd been taught that women stayed home and husbands worked, so I figured my future husband should have a really high paying job.
Never forgot those flowers...or him. Hope he found someone worthy of him and I'm guessing she gets lots of love and flowers. LOL And half of his sandwich at lunch.
