Weedy or not

Before:

At the best of the garden...but note some weeds going onto the front steps! Somewhere is a hidden pot with a geranium.

Clearly I let the weeds go along with coleus that just went crazy this year

And the giant now has dying and moldy leaves full of ants.

The other morning I got outside before the sun took over the front entrance to my cottage...and cut back the weedy peppermint...as well as the sunflower of which I've been so proud.
Well, you can only live in a weedy entrance-way for so long!

Taking the peppermint back I again could find the daylillies, and this poor leggy geranium

After...a pile of mint on a piece of plastic, to die back today before hauling over to be picked up.

Once I would have harvested the mint, but I find I never make tea from my own leaves.  They just aren't equal to the commercial varieties.

I'm hoping the ants will get their fill of whatever is still nutritious in the remains of the sunflower.

Today's quote:

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Mahatma Gandhi