We have have many rainey days here but lots of sunny ones also :-)) What I do is snap off the seed head part of the stalk on the daffs every few days and or cut (at the very top) off the dying spent flowers. In that mixed daff collection pictured wave after wave of flowers opens. As some finish, others start. So deadheading keeps the mixture looking good even now and they started weeks and weeks ago. In fact they started the very, very beginning of April. Here is how they look now with the last wave flowering and I have cut off all the spent blooms leaving the flower stalk. Here you can see the daylily folliage running in front of the tulips. It should make the tulip folliage much less noticable. Again, as soon as the tulips drop their flower pedals, I will snap off the very top of the stem which has the seed head. I just leave folliage, don't much worry about it. I find it's gone on it's own soon enough and there is always something else going on in the garden to look at. In the two belgium block mini terraces running accross which is were the daffs are, I plan to plant zinnias for summer long color. I will use seedlings and just plant them between the daffodil folliage. I am sure there will be some lang time there between when the daff flowers are all gone and I get my zinnia seedlings in. I haven't even startted the seeds yet as it has been too cold. But I have been growing zinnias in that front section for the past two years. This was before I put in the belgium block mini terraces late last summer. That then allowed me to plant the area in bulbs last fall as planned.

Holy smoke, what a gorgeous flower! The flat form with many petals is called a rosette, and when the petals arrange themselves in four lobes it is called quartering. Both are common in old roses. My guess of modern was based partly on the assumption of repeat bloom. The bloom color, stiff canes, and plant vigor might suggest a bourbon rose, but I never heard of a scentless or disease-resistant bourbon. With the shiny foliage, it might be a climber that was bred in the early 20th century. I hope you will decide to keep at least one of these roses. It seems they belong with the house, and they are very beautiful. A few suggestions. (1) Get welder's gauntlets at Lowe's/HD, or order rose gauntlets online. They will make an amazing difference in your ability to deal with your thorny monsters. (2) You can remove whole canes at the base. Right after blooming is the best time to do that, to maximize the bloom. If you want to maintain a particular volume, remove 1/3 of the canes each year, choosing the ones that look oldest. (3) If you are training the canes against the house, spread them out in a fan. This will increase the amount of bloom and make tending easier by reducing height. (4) When lateral shoots come off the fanned canes and grow upward, just cut them back any time after June blooming. (5) If the roses are once-bloomers (not repeaters), don't water them. They should be fine without it and will grow less rampantly. Fertilize only once a year in April, or don't fertilize if you have decent soil and the blooming holds up. More on identification. How healthy is the foliage in August? Please estimate the diameter of the flowers. Take a closeup picture of a typical leaf and stem section with thorns. It needs to be focused and placed against a simple, contrasting background. Here is a link that might be useful: One of 2 other posts

Why not kill the vine with kindness? Fill jars with dilute Roundup solution (3 parts water, I part Roundup), place ends of vines in the jars through holes in the lids and seal the jars by twisting the jar, not the lid. The jars can be hidden by shrubs or other vegetation. The vines will gladly take up the Roundup/water solution and be grateful for the additional water. Top off the solution in the jars as needed with additional solution as the vines take in the water and transport the roundup into their roots. Next year, the vines will be very unhealthy if they even survive the winter. Repeat the second year if necessary. All the roots are probably interconnected, so all parts of the vine in your yard and the neighborâÂÂs yard will eventually die. Commiserate with the neighbors when they express sadness over the unexplained death of their beloved vine.

The easiest way to ID weedy grasses is from the inflorescence, the seed producing stalk. Compare your weed to Dallisgrass, you could also try asking on the grasses forum or Name That Plant. Good luck!