AROUND THE YARD

Those of you who garden are well aware of the many challenges.  Some plants just don't want to kick in, while others go wild and start invading others' territory.

One of our intruders is some shrub I planted six years ago in the backyard.  I don't know what it's called, other than "that pretty green stuff."  I noticed this morning that it's starting to butt in on the coleus that's planted on a little stone terrace behind it.  Actually, you can't even see much of the stone any longer, so I guess the "pretty green stuff" has been "starting" to spread for a long time.  

Out came the clippers...but they suddenly lost their spring, so I just kind of crippled along with them this morning and gave the pretty green stuff an initial trim.  Round two and a new pair of clippers will come later this week.

Something else that seems to be running rampant in our yard, at least around the bird baths, are honeybees.  The poor things must be dreadfully thirsty, as they've just been swarming in packs.  Gotta keep them happy, though, so they can have all the water they want...provided they keep paying us off with their pollination.  And I have to bow down to them....they've been doing a great job so far, in spite of the heat.

But we could sure use some rain