In all this heat, I’m still working on perennial/ shrub beds. This will be a quick post, but for those of you who do your own gardening and end up having to clean up existing beds, I discovered a great “ hack” as they say. Well, likely others have discovered it as well, but it’s new to me.
I have dastardly creeping bellflower in some beds and it’s nasty to get rid of. You must dig deeply to get at the main roots, not just the little spidery white roots just under the surface. Of course, I have established shrubs and plants like peonies and spirea that I am not going to dig up and then put back in place, but they are big and scratchy in the case of spirea, so I took some foam covered gardening wire ( or tie-back) and wrapped it around the whole shrub as best I could and cinched it in and twisted the wire closed. This gave me lots of room, let me see what was under all those branches, and doesn’t hurt the plants at all.
I did this to try and control a giant Annabelle hydrangea, too. It worked really well!
Also, I just planted a Rose of Sharon because I needed something that would be in bloom at this time. It wasn’t blooming when I planted it, but it had several buds. Well, look at this!!
Those blooms are huge! I couldn’t believe it. And… they were 25% off! I love end of season sales!
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