Sounds great, Chaos. I did the wildflower thing, but didn't produce much. What did grow looked more like sparse weeds. I didn't water them.

Wildflowers tend to scatter and end up growing wherever THEY want to grow not necessarily where YOU want them to grow. We just mow around them.

I have a wildflower garden. Over the years a few species seem to choke out the other ones. Seems like yellow proliferate well and red and purple get choked out.

Lotsa life in dead seeds. They nourish the others.

We have johnny jump ups- which are tiny purple and yellow pansies, that grow wild on our lawn ( um, meadow) and in my garden, the one that is not wildflowers. My neighbor dug a few out of his garden and gave them to my daughter when she was little to plant in our garden. He said they are weeds and grow everywhere. During the recession, he took his own life. The johnny jump ups always remind me of him and many good things he did for our neighborhood. They have somehow found a way to coagulate along the fence and now provide a very pretty border where once was wiregrass.

Lovely crop of dandelions this year.
Obnoxious neighbour griped about them so I mowed around them.

We had a huge increase in rodents a couple of years ago. We found out that there was a group of do-gooders trapping feral cats and doing so on our property, which is a bit of a jungle (we have an entire town block). Now there are "no trespassing" the cats are back and the rodents are gone.

Our guys are fat and sassy and we don't feed them a thing.

Edit: If they were needy they'd be Republicans.

We planted an azalea on Friday. Hope it survives my black thumb.

We've had success with 3 plants. Tiger lilies, lilac and hosta - all good for incompetent, negligent gardeners.

We're wondering if we shouldn't plant asphalt next year.

I had to remove 7 30' tall trees from my yard last week. In fact, I didn't have a yard. I had a forest. Now I have a desert. I wish my landscaper was not so busy. I need replacement trees fast.

This might be a stupid question but, if you want trees, why did you remove them?

They were not stable- they were planted along a fence where the adjoining property was 2 feet lower. It was kind of scary. They were only 10 feet from my house and 12 feet from the other house. The person who planted them 18 years ago did not plan for that kind of growth. It was difficult but necessary.

Yes, width is a big problem too. The lower branches pushed through the fence 5-6 feet into the neighbor's yard. Not so good for the fence either. My yard which was planed for full sun 17 years ago deteriorated to no sun, no flowers, no grass, and a great environment for invasive ivy and other noxious weeds to take over. We haven't used the yard for anything in 8 or 9 years. We would never be able to sell the house without doing something about the trees. They were leeland cyprus. They were only 3 feet tall when we moved in. Had I known, I would have removed a few small ones and moved a few small ones back from the fence to plan for future growth.