The grass is "always greener" in the other zones, isn't it? LOL .... I enjoyed your garden web page and thought a tea cup birdfeeder would be pretty in it. Here are two links I just searched for: http://www.toatea.net/ and http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/10496/create_a_tea_cup_bird_feeder_for_your.html --- (I have nothing to do with those links. I just enjoy garden ornaments that work well with a garden's theme.) Here is a link that might be useful: Garden Tea Cups

Error: It's "euphorbia," not "euphoria." (Wish I could edit my post if I discover an error later.) And I found out that, not surprisingly, it's closely related to the poinsettia and sometimes called " Poinsettia dentata." Toothed spurge (Euphorbia dentata) is a member of :  Euphorbia, genus Euphorbia  The Euphorbiaceae are a very large genus of diverse plants all of which have milky juice It is an annual weed of northeastern North America and the Southeastern Yukon (but it obviously grows in the Pacific NW US too). More info here: Euphorbia dentata Michx. Family: Euphorbiaceae More of the scientific description: Stems - From a taproot, multiple from the base, branching, erect to ascending, herbaceous, sparsely papillose-hispid and pubescent, to 60cm long(tall), terete, with milky sap. Some of the hairs are multicellular. (Most of this is Greek to me, as I haven't taken botany in over 30 years.) Leaves - Mostly opposite, petiolate. Petioles to +1.5cm long, pubescent as the stem, with a shallow adaxial groove. (Here's what I've been calling "berries.") A small cluster of minute glands is often present at the base of each petiole. The glands often brownish. Blades irregularly dentate to subentire, ovate to narrowly lanceolate, to +3cm broad, 8cm long, pubescent above and below, dull green above, bluish green below. Pressed leaves. (Not sure what this means.) Inflorescence - Terminal bracteate cluster of cymules. Pedicels to 1.5mm long, glabrous. Inflorescence. Flowers - Involucre (at anthesis) whitish-green, 3mm long, glabrous, 5-lobed, with a single cupulate nectary, (nectary green, to 1.2mm long). Lobes fimbriate and often with a pinkish tinge. Ovary green, glabrous, 1.2mm in diameter (at anthesis). Styles 3, white, glabrous, spreading, to 1mm long, divided nearly to the base and appearing as 6. Anthers bi-lobed, yellow, .5mm broad. Filaments white, glabrous, distinctly jointed in the apical 1/4. Stamens +/-30 per flower. Capsules 3-lobed, glabrous, 3-seeded. Flowers. Flowering - July - October. (Aha! That's probably why mine are still pods and haven't flowered yet. Maybe it will flower this fall.) Habitat - Prairies, glades, waste ground, disturbed sites, roadsides, railroads. Origin - Native to U.S. Other info. - This species is found throughout Missouri. The plant is fairly inconspicuous because of its indistinct flowers. It is closely related to the every popular Poinsettia that many people like to buy around the winter holidays. Be careful with the sap of this plant and most from this genus and it can be irritating to the skin and eyes. ---- So I still haven't figured out just how invasive it's likely to be, but I'm going to try it as a houseplant. Check out the top picture on this page.

Jerseygirl -- too too funny! GMTA, I guess. When we moved to this house in 2007, the original owners had "landscaped" the foundation in an 18" strip (argh!) with gladioli. I had just gotten my landscape design cert back in Chicago and was like WHAT??? That's a foundation planting? Glads??? Oh yeah, there was also a dwarf Alberta spruce that had been eaten by spider mites. I yanked them all before we prepped large foundation beds (15 feet out) and every year a few come back. I've pulled them, I've sprayed them with glyphosate, they still come back to haunt me.

They grow rapidly by suckering, the plants come up 30 ft. away. And the flowers stink, they smell like Oriental lilies. In a severe winter here in zone 6, the smaller ones die to the ground, and I wish the big ones did too. The reason is that the big ones sort of live, but sort of die too. Lots of pruning required. Still, the effect of a mass of them sited right can make a Wow! moment. These grow here at the end of the pond.