You know we’ve been working on our garden. You might have guessed that I’m seriously interested in native plants, and quite concerned about invasive plants on Gabriola. My plan is to eradicate all traces of invasive plants from our yard, and encourage lots of native plants.

It’s been going pretty well, or so I thought.

Meanwhile, I’ve been busy learning the identities of all the plants that seeded themselves. Today I found that the pretty purple thing that we have in profusion seems to be purple loosestrife which is officially a bad thing.

Well. I have nothing polite to say about this.