[SpaceAgeRobin] Fall cleanup

Now that leaves are down off the trees here, I can start fall work.  There's a lot of cleanup to do.  In some areas I had outbreak of borer--and was especially interested to note that a comment was made on Iris-talk about borer being more often noted where there was greenery hanging overhead.
 
I have an area where some vines straggle along a board fence.  Right underneath them the plants got hit harder than most, despite my spraying (or, rather, having a friend spray while I walked around with him.  I'm still not up to doing much carrying...my abdominal muscles are still complaining about all the surgical assaults they've gone through these three years.  Thank God that's all over now!).
 
I think I may get rid of those vines, or sure whack them back.  I don't enjoy seeing chewed-on leaves or clumps suddenly starting to disappear from being eaten from the inside out, especially on ones I particularly like.
 
Did you notice, by the way, that DEVEONSHIRE CREAM was well up in the awards list, and even mentioned as a HORNED iris in one comment in the October (arriving in December) Bulletin?  Most folks don't realize it is one, as the SA trait seems to vary according to soil conditions.
 
Neil Mogensen  z 7 western NC mountains

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