Plants Gone Wild - Part 3

As I continue the saga of trying to reclaim my yard and gardens from "Plants Gone Wild", wonderful things continue to come to light:

1) when ivy vines are embedded UNDER vinca, they can really do a number on your back trying to pull them out. It's kind of like fishing when you catch a really big one! 
2) I discovered the planter in the picture below which I built when we first moved here, but I haven't seen it since around 1997. 
3) I was wondering where those extension cords went to. Haven't seen them since putting up Christmas lights a few years ago!

I discovered the planter in the picture which I built when we first moved here, but I haven't seen it since around 1997.

This is what the planter looked like before, only it was worse.  I had already pulled out a bunch of invasive balloon flowers.

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Plants Gone Wild - Part 2

Today's episode of "Plants Gone Wild" I learned a few more new things: 

1) I learned that my sidewalk is really 5ft wide instead of 3. 
2) vinca, ivy, and creeping junipers are a HUGE pain in the a** when growing together let alone by themselves. 
3) landscape lights really don't work that well after you cut the wire with pruning shears...

Plants gone wild - My sidewalk was really 5 ft wide, not 3!  The ivy just above the planter along with the creeping juniper that it covered and intertwined with was extended out into the sidewalk where the dirt marks are.  Wow.

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