Can We Talk 2

Voodoo plants

         I may have brought this up last year and the year before that. Voodoo plants are aptly named. They are a curse! I have ruined several hand shovels going after those long roots that turn up everywhere, even in rocky soil. They are an invasive species that want to take over your flower beds.

         One year, I dug up over 300 of them only to have them keep reappearing. I set the bulbs aside to die in the sun on a tray. The next day instead of drying up, they were revived by the dew and standing straight up without soil. This is the fourth year of digging them up from one initial experiment my dad made. Now he's in heaven, and I'm sure if he's looking down at me trying to keep my balance in the yard, he's having a great chuckle at his feeble elderly daughter trying to undo the trick he played on her.