Now for my first day in Mundy! I was introduced to the pernicious (yet beautiful) invasive weed Hesperis matronalis or Dame's Rocket. This plant was popular with gardeners in the 19th century, yet fell out of favor. Despite its lack of popularity it found the Northeast to be a fine habitat and has continued to proliferate and become a problem as is edges native plants out of prime habitat. It is often mistaken for Phlox an unrelated but relatively similar plant, however Hesperis, being a mustard, has four petals per bloom whereas Phlox has five. I also learned about many native plants in the garden. Pictured are: Geranium maculatum the native Wild Geranium, Tiarella cordifolia or Foamflower, and Packera (formerly Senecio) aurea. Tiarella makes and excellent groundcover in full to partial shade while geranium can handle full sun to shade as long as it receives adequate water. Like Tiarella Packera makes an excellent ground cover but looks best after its spent flowering heads are removed and the large, dark green basal leaves are allowed to remain an unbroken carpet.