Today was mowing and a light bit of edging in the front and north side yard, plus laying down weed & feed in the last front section. One of my biggest lawn weed issues is Doveweed, a flowering ground cover weed that blends into the grass, then smothers it. I didn't use to have it, but my next door neighbor quit using weed products several years ago and his lawn got it thick. Then, naturally it spread to mine. It's a vining weed. I generally pull up any I spot--that's the best weed control really. Today's Garden Pic is Mexican Heather! This is a small, low-maintenance flowering shrub needs no pruning that I love to use in my landscape! Here in the south, it's a perennial, but an annual in the north. It runs roughly 12 inches tall by 20 inches wide. In my experience, since mine come back from the root every spring, as a perennial, Mexican Heather generally have a life span of approximately 3 to 7 years. (In contrast to my Gardenia, for example, whic...
