Greetings, Now that I have my plan established and my seed selected and my concerns about the Maple tree resolved I would like to discuss another concern of mine and that is two weeds that show up in my yard on a yearly basis. I have been maintaing a thick/green Sunny mix for 3 years now however I noticed that I get pretty good infestations of the following weeds every year, even If I kill them they just keep coming back: White Clover: http://www.turf.uiuc.edu/weed_web/descriptions/whiteclover.htm No matter what I do I can never get rid of the White Clover. I spray it with ortho Clover killer, keep the grass thick and green but it always seems to find a way to infest a few areas. Common Yarrow: http://www.turf.uiuc.edu/weed_web/descriptions/commonyarrow.htm This stuff I can't figure out. You can't just pull one piece out at a time. They seem to be connected under the turf. Even though this site says a thick maintained turf should keep them out, I never can. I try to kill them off but the keep coming back. They appear in the same spot every year and get thick and green then start to overcrowd the grass. So naturally my concern is that I don't want these weeds to show up in my new KBG turf next year. How do I ensure that they will be gone come next summer and that they don't infest my new KBG?

I just now came to the forum to ask this very question. I watched what I believe was an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail BF deposit eggs on my large Rue plant this afternoon! Is this possible? I've found two eggs; one is pictured below. Does this look like one of their eggs? Most of the time, she was laying on the blooms and I've not been able to spot the eggs because the blooms are various shades of yellow and with rough surfaces. I took photos of the two eggs I found and I pinched off the leaves and put them in a container, as I don't want the wasps to get them. I so hope this is what they are as the little cats are so cute. I've only seen one little cat at a native plant nursery and at that time, I didn't know what the mature butterfly looked like. Most of the host plants mentioned are the trees and I don't know as I've ever seen it mentioned that this butterfly would use Rue. She was huge and so graceful. I watched her checking out plants in our neighbors yard, then she came to our yard, testing the plants until all of a sudden, she began laying eggs on the Rue. Mary Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Egg on Rue?

Spring is here all right! Have baby Robins all around here in Ohio. First hummingbird this morning! Blues are sitting on 5 eggs. Same for Tree Swallows. We got a heat wave coming! Gonna be close to 90 by Thursday. Good luck with the babies! Wish I had them already! ~Tim~

I think I saw a Vulture yesterday but it could have been our resident Eagle, didn't have my binocks. It was over a favorite Vulture hang out. Gotta make a positive ID before I put it in the books. I hope my Blues are not early I'm going out of town for a long weekend next week.....