pgp 10-27-2013

things have been a bit out of hand recently and i haven't made it to the pgp in a while...it's still there and i didn't find any surprises...the gamagrass is in full fall mode and the flowers on the teosinte have stalled at just about the same place they were on my last visit...the sub-tropical perennial grass is sheltering some beneficial lady bugs this morning...if i find some next week i may capture some and turn them loose in my basement on aphid patrol...some asparagus continues to flower at this late date while other plants have died back leaving mature "berries" to seed someone's bed...dying back is an autumn process and the chinese yams are in full swing, exposing a plethora of aerial bulbs and showing why they are classed as invasive ( a trait shared by many perennial simply because they come back every year and try to expand their range...invasive is an unfair assessment applied to plants considered useless...this, of course, an anthropogenic bias...plants aren't invasive or useless...just plants ) okay..enough rant...more on the pgp on mulching day