We have this big flower bed in our backyard underneath the dining room window. When we moved into the house in September 2005, our first outdoor project was to dig up this bed. We cut EVERYTHING in the bed down to the ground to try to kill whatever was growing there. And every single summer the plants grow big and tall.
Currently, we have little purple flowers blooming in the bed of ugliness. The purple flowers are pretty but they only hang around for a week or two. So the rest of summer, we’ve got knee-high, ugly, green leafy plants. You can kind of see them in the background of this picture. They’re very ugly and look overgrown and out of control in the bed.
Anyone know what this is? Is it a “real” plant? Or is it a flowering weed?
I’m thinking of renting some heavy duty gardening equipment in the fall or possibly in the spring and getting rid of all of the stuff in the bed. I’d pretty much rather have a bed full of dirt at this point.