Sharon's blog: Goldenrod, finally!

I've been waiting 2 years for my goldenrod to reappear.  The drought happened last year but the goldenrod didn't.  I was truly afraid it was gone forever.  I even allowed the 'upon the hill daylily garden' to fill up with trash weeds -- bindweed and maple and redbud seedlings -- afraid if I started yanking weeds, I'd uproot the goldenrod and lose it again.  Even the asparagus fern looks matted and ratty, but it's also supporting the long goldenrod stalks, along with the help of too much bindweed.  The birds planted the goldenrod in that spot years ago and until last year, it bloomed every September for what seems like forever.  This year I was taking no chances, so I've waited all summer for the goldenrod to bloom, never once weeding that garden after the daylilies finished their blooming.

Nature does interesting things, and mostly I just let them happen, but wisteria blooming with sedum is a little unusual. If you enlarge the center photo below, it will better show you what I mean.  Bumblebees and butterflies seem happy with the combo.

I'm guessing my neighbors are going to be really happy now that I can finally get rid of the weeds growing around the goldenrod in that huge daylily bed.  But they probably think my goldenrod is a weed, too. 

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