Hindering Horticulture Havoc
Here in Central Alabama during July and August, the climate could be compared to a rainforest on the equator. Hot, sticky and condusive to fostering all kinds of vegatation…both wanted and unwanted. This fact does not deter my desire for organization, even outside my house.
Isn't she beeeeeautiful!?! 
Two days ago I was planting a “knock out” rose bush (I highly advocate these plants. They are low maintenance and bloom into the winter months.) when I realized how my flower bed had become a bit overgrown with weeds and the bushes needed to be trimmed to tidy them up. I still had the plastic bag from Home Depot that carried my new rose bush and my pruning clippers were on hand…inspiration hit me. I slipped the handle of the plastic bag over my left arm, addressed the bush to my right, and shaped it with my pruning clippers. In ten minutes I had a neatly shaped shrub and a half filled plastic bag on my arm. I was repurposing the bag, I didn’t have to rake the clippings and risk losing the mulch in my beds and the whole process took less than fifteen minutes. I proceeded to snag any weeds that I found around the base of the plant, tied the bag and deposited it in the garbage on my way in.
Neat and tidy...just like a garden should be!
Last night I grabbed a plastic grocery bag out of my recycling and my pruning clippers to trim another bush and weed beneath it. It only took ten minutes, so I did another. In 20 minutes, I had trimmed my two largest bushes, weeded their area and neatly had all the clippings in the bag hanging on my left arm. AND I never broke a sweat.
I say all this to suggest that never again will I spend half a day with clippers, pruning supplies, garbage bags, rakes; sweating and fighting with my front flower beds. In an average of 15 minutes an evening, I am able to do my entire flower bed in about a weeks time. I can focus on the worst bushes first to give myself a feeling of accomplishment and not drain my energy, my hydration, or my patience.
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