Overcoming The Overgrowth - Perennial Management

Project of the Day - Getting Back Under Control the Perennials (Parents House)
Hours Spent - 2.0
Money Spent - None - Used Lathe Board and String already at the house and hands used to pull

Beginning Status - The front garden at my parents house was planted with misc. plants that my mother loved which included dead nettle.  This plant is a ground cover plant that multiplies while you blink.

Before Pictures:

The dead nettle plant had overgrown and was choking out numerous plants throughout the entire front garden and had turned a once lovely plant garden with mulch backdrop into a completely ratty looking mess which was completely covered by this one plant (note you  can not even see some of the stone pathway). The mulch was taken over and all spaces between plants was being devoted to this ground cover.  We decided to take on the project of rescuing all of the plants in and around this dead nettle and remove the dead nettle all together to prevent future problems.  The result was amazing and a very clean look.  However when we began to get up close and personal with the flowers we found some other problems that needed to be remedied.

We discovered that while my brothers Black Lab is AWESOME to have around - the trample affects of a good game of fetch are long lasting.  The other problem we found was even the plants that had not been trampled - some of them became too big to stand up on their own.  So we set out to repair and stand up all of the flowers that were laying down or trampled.

So the day included - along with removing all of the dead nettle flowers we found string and posts to tie up all of the plants - position them back to the sun and hopefully mitigate the trampling affects of this summer.

Conclusion was a productive day with no major road blocks or lessons learned - these days will be cherished!

After Photos: