Evil Bermuda Grass

Today I began resurrecting my flower garden. All that remained were my overgrown rosebushes. (Sounds like a description from the Secret Garden). I have spent the past two springs pregnant. Even the springtime heat quickly became too much for me to do the necessary work to keep it up. Now, no more babies, so I must tackle the bermuda grass ugh!
For those of you unfamiliar, bermuda grass is fine as a lawn, although course and prickly to bare feet. However, bermuda grass is the nemesis of gardeners!

A very hardy perennial, creeping grass with a deep root system, it reproduces through seeds, runners, and rhyzomes. It moves fast: it can put out seeds within three months of implantation, the seeds germinate when temperatures reach 68 degrees F., and will begin growing within two weeks. Though it prefers 16"+ of rain per year, once established it is highly resistant to drought (going into dormancy above-ground while its rhizomes extend toward the water table), it can spread in poor soils, and it is strongly fire-adapted. Its flowering season is long (September through May), a problem to allergy sufferers since its pollens are highly allergenic.

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I have desert landscaping in my front yard, with just rocks..and the pretty flowers I plant around the mailbox. At the front of the house is my flower bed with my roses. The horrible bermuda grass has been snaking around my rosebushes and is going to be difficult to complete remove. Probably impossible to completely remove. I am determined however! Today I tackled around the mailbox.
I think bermuda grass with the way it winds around other plants and is impossible to just pull up is a lot like the stresses of life. Often they start small and I think 'oh I can take care of that anytime'..So I put it off and don't take care of it when it is a tiny problem., much like the first sprouting of evil bermuda grass. Finally, the problem weaves its way around my entire life leaving me to have to pull and tug until my palms are raw. The worst part, just like bermuda grass, huge stresses are hard to fully get rid of. The roots stay hidden underground until just the right conditions.
I like metaphors. I think as I am yanking out the bermuda grass strangling my rosebushes I will think about what I can remove in my life to reduce the stresses and recreate beauty. I'll share some pictures when the flowers are all in and my roses are cut back too. Flowers make me happy.