I was admiring those cute little red-foliaged trilliums - very cute.
Tiffany, I also have lots of areas where brutish plants are duking it out against each other. The irony is I am fond of several of these garden thugs (incl some species of asclepias).
The way some plants first make their appearance in spring is fascinating to me. I always assumed all that is going on under the ground is a complex root system. But the way some of these plants emerge from the ground with buds already fully formed - there is a lot more going on down there than I gave credit for.