Hi ts -
You're welcome. Glad you liked the tendril story. Your mystery plant sounds beautiful, and i know you won't let it overrun your other trees. Here there is an enormous problem with kudzu - which sounds like the same sort of climber that you have there... Phenomenal growth per day and indestructable. The kudzu have killed 80 foot tall trees. I have heard that it takes less than 6 years for it to destroy a mature tree. In patches here the kudzu is almost epidemic. I have a sort of one woman campaign going, where in spring before the forest floor gets overgrown, i go out with garden shears and sever all the kudzu stems i can reach and unwrap them from around the trunks and branches of trees. I learned the hard way, though, that some poison ivy climbs in vines that hug the tree trunks and resemble the kudzu AND that it is potent even when there are no green leaves. I had poison ivy for a month, despite long sleeves, a turtleneck, and gardening gloves.
On the plus side, have managed to rescue several fruit bearing trees - apple, cherry, dogwood, as well as some birch and maple and pines.
But i digress.
Enjoy your time with the mosquitoes - you can have my share - i'm dreadfully allergic to mosquito bites - the compound in their saliva that prevents blood from coagulating when they feast.
love and peace,
joyce
PS - Have never smelled milkweed - didn't even imagine it as being scented.
ts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
thanks joyce ...
i always have enjoyed your spiels on gardening/plants/flowers.
those tendrils are the most amazing things ...
i have wild grape vine and many other types of climbing
things and i am constantly "steering" them by trying to
get a tendril to grab on here and there.
and the reaction time is very short ...
lay one side of a tendril against something and within
minutes you can see it begin to bend and find purchase.
i also like to plant gourds ... birdnest gourds for sure ...
and they are very fast to "reach out". and i try to connect
them to the wild grapes that hang down from the trees and
end up with a wall of gourds as they climb over each other.
also have some unknown "weed" thing that is the fastest climber
i have yet seen ... it will send up two large tendriles ...
which wrap around one another to make a freestanding stalk
that can reach 3 foot ... in search of low tree branches.
i've actually measured the progress and it is as much as
18 inches a day!!! whatever these are ... they eventually
produce some very sweet smelling flowers so i encourage them
as long as they aren't attempting to take over my garden.
speaking of scents ...
my all time favorite flower scent is that of the lowly milkweed.
every time i get down close and inhale i am amazed at that
smell ... it is so wonderful my poor brain cannot come close
to retaining the experience and i am surprised every time i
bow my head down to intake it. i have some about to open in
a week or so. i can hardly wait!!!
-ts-
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