Name: Mary My little patch of paradise (Zone 7b) Gardening dilettante, that's me!
Rather than pulling leaves out of corners, add to them and wet them down. Or rake them between your shrubs. They are a natural mulch, and help enrich the soil as well as protecting it.
Northwest Georgia Daylily Society I'm going to retire and live off of my savings. Not sure what I'll do that second week. My yard marches to the beat of a bohemian drummer...