Overgrowth/undergrowth in the garden

Good morning everyone ~ Hope your weekend will be a good one.

I took a little walk around the main garden area this morning and decided to take some pictures of how overgrown things are around here. It's just too dang hot and humid some mornings to even go outside and do anything, so I do nothing, thus the overgrowth keeps on growing.

I did mow and weedwack the driveway and front little lawn the other day and took a picture of the drive because it looks nice, to me. Things always look better right after you do them, and if you don't get a picture then, stuff overtakes and gardens, etc. look unkempt.

I have weeds, grass, plants that spread by tubers, runners, etc. all fighting for space and recognition. :-) Tomorrow morning I hope to get out there early to at least make a start. We'll see how much gets accomplished before the sun starts blasting the space.

I wanted to get out there so bad this morning while it was cool, but I am working today, and did not want to get all hot, sweaty and red-faced. Not exactly the kind of picture you want to portray in an antique shop. :-) So, for my morning gardening fix, I've been moving the hoses around to water, since it is one of my two days to water with sprinklers.

This is looking west, gate to sidewalk/street on the left, the patio is behind the shrubbery on the right.

This is also looking west from the patio, main garden at the end of little sidewalk.

This is looking south, standing in little ally-way between house and workshop(right). Tork is walking ahead of me, letting me know she's around because it's time for breakfast. :-)

There are mother-of-millions plants all along that sidewalk on the left, and spiderwort and ferns spreading out into walking space also.

Here is our driveway. I'm standing just inside the gate. You can see our huge almost 11' fiberglass swordfish on the back fence. We found him in the trash on the next block.

Next shows my shed with bougainvillea, Louis Phillipe roses and crape myrtle growing up and over. The boug and roses do need trimming back that's for sure.

The next picture shows the back shed with my potting area to the right of it.

Below is a picture of the potting area, looking west. I haven't worked back here in months, and DH put a lot of flower pots from another area that he was cleaning up, here. There are weeds, pine needles, and vines back here as well. I did start on this area the other day, but didn't take pictures of that yet. I want to wait until it's all cleaned up again.

I have a LOT of work to do, and now that it's starting to be a tad cooler out and the sun isn't directly overhead frying everything in sight, I hope to get things looking good again.

That's it for now.

Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL

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The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due,

not a garden swollen to a realm;

his own hands to use, not the

hands of others to command."

- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Sam Gamgee