The picture that says "are they phlox or something else?" looks a lot like Physostegia / Obedient plant to me. whoever buys my place will probably scalp the entire 26 garden beds i have nurtured for the past 12 years and put in hardscape or a pool. breaks my heart, but nothing i can do about it Roxanna, there are things you can do before you leave your gardens - you can open your gardens to gardening friends or neighbors for give-aways, donate plants to a local or charity plant sale, sell or give away on Craigslist or Freecycle. People will even come and dig stuff up for you. Better than those lovely plants being scalped!

I love violets too. They are native, very pretty in the Spring, and Viola species are the larval host plant for Fritillary butterflies. However they're pesky, and I don't like them in the lawn either, and usually hand dig the few that are there. But I do let them grow and spread around in the "wild" garden in the back with a few nice ones in the woodland gardens. If you have way too many to hand pull, you might have some success with Ortho's Weed-B-Gone on the broadleaf weeds in the lawn. Although I think Triclopyr needs to be used during the growing season and it is a somewhat more toxic herbicide than round up. Garlic mustard is extremely invasive. It is biennial and makes a little clump of foliage the first year, then flowers the 2nd year. It's important to remove before flowering. Each plant makes thousands of seeds and they persist for years. The flowers and seeds can continue to mature after being pulled, so if they are flowering I would dispose in the garbage, or you could put the weeds in clear (for increased solar gain) plastic bags in the sun and let them roast. :)

Hi again! Beautiful picture! :) TY! I'm using my phone to do this. I just tried to post a pic straight by taking the picture and it just goes back to the main page. Whenever I try to either take a pic or upload, I get the 4 options to use camera, camcorder, voice recorder or documents. My pics r in the documents and I've tried to just post from the camera, but it goes straight back to the main question pg, like I haven't done anything,!! I'm wondering if I need to download something else? It's not letting me to the chrome extension,! I'll report now. Sooo, the vines are ALL OVER, but now the bottom little "clusters", kind of like a giant blackberry & the bottom round parts, are turning black one by one! The tops r still green w purple tip. Doesn't smell like anything I know! My twitter handle is @DrBrittGalb & I've posted pics on there for help!! & IG, drbrittgalandlunablupom (drbrittandlunablu) Im new to it, so I'm not sure which name, lol. Thank u SOO MUCH for ur help,! They are taking over everything now so I REALLY need to figure out if I should move them or not! Can't get to other blooming plants! Ttys! Britt

Thank you! The way they were growing through the bamboo they appeared to be a vine. Appreciate your help!