Garden miscellany

[curtana]

Hopefully today we'll finally manage to find and purchase a compost bin. I've had a terrible time trying to get one - we had no luck at Canadian Tire, Home Depot, Zellers, or any of the three garden centres I've visited. The woman at the last garden centre called someone else to ask if he had one - he didn't, but suggested that maybe the Home

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[intertext]

Okay - I would say that the yellow mystery flower at the top is a coreopsis.
The little pink thing is thrift. I'm pretty sure the big green blob below the second little pink thing photo is a peony. The "vine" might be a weed. If it's bindweed, watch out. Not sure, though. The little red tree is a Japanese maple, lucky you! The mystery plant above the japanese maple is either echinacea or rudbeckia (if the flower is pink, it's echinacea; if yellow with a black center, rudbeckia, or black-eyed susan). The lily-like yellow flowers are day-lilies. The clump of narrow leaves next to the japanese maple might be japanese or siberian iris. Or not. That one I'm not sure about either.

Nice!

[curtana]

Thank you! All signs point to bindweed, so I'm working on rooting that out.

[mellybean71]

I think your little red tree is a Japanese maple. Sorry I'm not botanic enough to recognize the rest. I'm so jealous of your garden though!

As for the rabbits... one of the Moms I used to sit for had a thing to keep cats out. It would shoot a jet of water at whatever set off the motion detector. Maybe something like that would work?

[curtana]

Thanks! I think Arthur would have a lot more fun with the water-jet thing than the rabbits would ;)

[curtana]

Thanks! The leaves are most like the last ones on that page.

[bodhifox]

For rabbits? Farmer MacGregor recommends chicken wire, trenched and buried 6 inches deep all around, and block or brick at the gate.

[curtana]

That's sort of what I was expecting. Blah :p

[velvetpage]

That vine looks like bindweed to me, which is very, very bad news. That stuff is tenacious as hell, grows new plants from every fragment of weed, and chokes the life out of anything it climbs.

If the leaves are broad and heart-shaped, it may be morning glory instead, which, though it's related, is not nearly as bad. They're self-seeding annuals, so if you don't want them there, just dead-head the flowers before they form seed pods and in a couple of years, you won't have them anymore.

The yellow lily-like flower is a kind of lily, but I can't remember what it's called. They're beautiful, though.

[curtana]

Thanks. I think it's definitely bindweed, the leaves are more pointy, not heart-shaped. I spent the afternoon rooting it out as much as I could. There's still some at the far end, under the japanese maple and that area, but I'll get it another day.

[velvetpage]

You'll be pulling it out over and over again for as long as you live in the house, unfortunately. It's practically impossible to kill. Just never let it flower, and get it as close to the base as possible each time. It's not even worth trying to root it out - every fragment of root will make a new plant, and you'll end up with more than you had to begin with.

Can you tell I've had some run-ins with this stuff?