I agree with the others, wait until our short frost season is over before trimming any damaged growth. For the bougies, just wait until they start re-growing and cut above a nice fresh green shoot. Unknown #3 is a white flowered trailing lantana (L. montevidiensis). I'd use a hula hoe to keep those weeds under control. It's basically a scuffle hoe that "shaves" the weeds off at ground level. Do it on a warm sunny afternoon and they'll croak right away. Plus it's kind of fun. Getting some type of mulch around the lantana will help control weed seedlings too. Unkonw #4 is a Ruellia, sometimes call Mexican petunia. They bloom spring through autumn. You can trim them if you like, or leave them be. Again, I'd wait until after the short frost season is over. Keep us posted! Happy gardening! Grant

I so miss your frequent posts. I'm going to be moving to a special, :-) private, worm inn posting area since I have given up on flow thoughts that do not flow through and have moved on to worm inns that harvest a round hole straight down the middle ignoring the sides. Frustration seems to be the main attraction in Vermicomposting. It is for me. Maybe I will still post here. I don't know. I am a bit frustrated by posters who want the world delivered to their doorstep and have never read a sentence about worms ever. I feel bad about ignoring a few posts but others have stepped in. I hope they too do not burn out. At least here is not facebook where recently on the worm part a lady posted of having these worms in her garden that she wanted to get rid of due to fear they might eat her plants because they are organic matter. Well facebook does have that humor aspect. I feel liked I tried to run North on the under ground railroad but was recaptured. I think eventually facebook is going to eat places like this up. In some ways here is better than facebook. So that is sad. In many ways facebook is very, very bad and nobody should ever go there. On the other hand I have some good worm news in a different post. Edit: The area to start posts seems to be blank. Mostly I wanted to say I have a 5 gallon bucket full of harvest and cocoons and new, baby worms. I have not seen posted timelines of how to keep worms so as to not harvest away cocoons in vermicastings so as to retain them for worm additions to the system. I have not seen posted timelines of how to keep worms so as to not harvest for sale the most productive cocoon producers. Would it be better to sell worms not yet at prime or past their breeding prime for fishing? Are we selling our best breeders at their prime? Timelines for harvest seem to be needed. Glad to see you still posting Chuckie. I always enjoy reading and learning. I think your methods of brewing castings are being scientifically verified as time goes on.

The deutzia is probably this one https://www.monrovia.com/plant-catalog/plants/1060/pink-a-boo-deutzia/ because Monrovia has sent it to local outlets in later years. Gossler Farms says it appears to be a renaming of one of the older French kinds, 'Magicien' I think - but I don't remember for sure now. The elder cultivar name is 'Eva' and not 'Black Lace'. With Black Lace being a trademark used to sell 'Eva'. https://www.monrovia.com/plant-catalog/plants/3037/black-lace-elderberry/

Oh that's okay....Sometimes I'm looking on CL and I know we have the same vibe going on. I think you're right though----dfw seems to have better stuff. Maybe due to the floods down there? The sofa I showed above is on my CL. I like the table and that's the idea on CL...you need to know the area and check out the what the house looks like in the listing pics. It's part luck, part detective work :) Nice houses usually have good stuff. I had the same trouble with my coffee table...my table is too low (it's from the 70's and they just were that way, I think) and too short. But I like it and there are no decor police. Also, it might be considered a tea table, which have always been higher (closer to end-table height)..