My Ric Rac is budding up also. I moved mine to more Sun, but honestly don't know if that's it's one of those plants that thrives on benign neglect. I haven't fertilized it. But I do water it if we aren't getting rain.
Lin I'm with ya on the weeds. Been a bad spring for us with unplanned repairs to the house among other things. I'm still working on repotting and getting things into their proper place in the yard.
