Black-eyed Susan surprise

I forgot I planted this.

It's a Black-eyed Susan variety, native to Texas. A couple of years ago I bought a bunch of plants for my front yard garden, but the Black-eyed Susans were leggy and old and didn't make it. I let them dry up and didn't remove the stems until I cleaned up the bed in the winter.

It wasn't until about a month ago, I decided to leave some "weeds" alone that kept popping up in that flower bed. Boy was I surprised when it bloomed.

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My garden enemy #1

I'm about to spend another weekend attacking what I believe is my greatest nemesis in the garden -- Bermudagrass.
I hate the stuff.
It gets into my garden beds and spreads like fire, choking out every other plant in its way. Nothing seems to stop it.
It just laughed at the plastic garden edgers with which I surrounded my beds. Someone suggested I soak newspaper and suffocate it -- nope. That didn't work. So, I tried cardboard. The grass just started attaching itself to the cardboard and finding weaknesses in it to claw its way through.
Heavy-duty professional landscape fabric seems to help, but I've found Bermudagrass will send out rhizomes (underground stems) under the fabric, searching for a place to poke through.
I'm not the only gardener frustrated with Bermudagrass.

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