Horned Grebe

As anyone who has been on The Kitchen Table for more than a year knows , the bright yellow spring flowering plant here is my all time favorite.

Negril, Jamaica

A misty day in Ireland

Ha Long Bay, Vietnam:

lgmd_gax.....sprurge! Love it! Our neighbors are up on arms ripping it out and leaving flyers to people growing it. Against city code to grow it now. It's been named a noxious weed....nurseries no longer sell it here either. :0( I'll be moving mine to where people can't see it from the street. I'll be wearing gloves.

Nicole, I have had a couple other varieties of Spurge that I would call invasive, but not Polychroma. Both my daughter and I have been growing it for years and find it easily controlled. Rarely have I had it reseed, and even then it is easily removed or transplanted. We do cut it back after flowering, just cause it looks better and keeps it from flopping open as it gets taller.

Now, Spurge Chameleon is invasive. I have been fighting it for 17 years. Pulled out 2 plants of it yesterday. It shows up every year in the most unexpected places.

My Easter lily is blooming

"Windy City II" sailing into the fog, out of Port Washington, WI