What's the difference between a hardy and a tropical water lily?

Yeah, so tropicals usually are hardy to the tropical areas of the world.

So everything is relative, right? So a hardy is one that's hardy in your zone and will winter over without unnecessary precautions being taken.

Even the hardy water lilies, for me, I'm zone seven.

I will push mine to the middle of the pond, to the deepest part, just to make sure if there's a horrible winter, right, that it winters over.

But all the hardy ones should be fine.

The tropicals you're going to need to take out and you can either compost it, which some people do, or you can winter it over inside in a tank or in your basement, just making sure that it doesn't ever dry out.

right?

I'm definitely one of those who needs,

you know, constant time management, juggling 10 things at once.

I would say my best advice, if I was going to say anything is to try to gang or group up tasks and, Um, you know, a lot of things are weather dependent.

So when you're stuck inside, you're going to do your billing and your paperwork, right? You're going to have to plow through that stuff.

But maybe you don't feel like doing it at that point.

So then it's creating the motivation to do those sorts of things.

But yeah.

you know,

our

noxious weeds or invasive plants we introduced, we as in humans and industry, for a purpose.

So, you know, the famous kudzu that ate the South, the vine that ate the South, was introduced during the Dust Bowl era for... erosion control to hold in soil and it did a great job of that it was a perfect one and it's an edible weed and so it just was too too successful when it came and was introduced to our growing areas um same thing with there's a lot of different um asian vines that we've introduced and And of course, the classic case of bamboos, right? So people planted bamboo at the back of their property because it's a fast spreading, it is a grass, but a fast spreading grass with underground roots.

So you would have an almost immediate privacy fence.

So compare planting bamboo five, ten pots of bamboo with putting in a privacy fence, that's a no-brainer, right, Sunil? Who wouldn't do that? But they weren't thinking that generations down the road, that running bamboo is now taking over the world.

What else are there like big offenders?

The worst to me is Lesser Celandine.

That is a spring blooming plant that's in almost every Montgomery County park that I visit.