🌸 The Holiday season has left me scattered and way behind on my blogs. When we returned home from the holidays these flowers were everywhere!
🍃 When we left for Christmas and New Year to Johana's mom's house these where just vines that had taken over the chicken yard fence, when we got back home this is what we found everywhere.
🌿 They were really becoming overpowering vines and I had to trim many back around our Chicken yard gate already. But now they have gone to flower and started to die off for the dry season and I will clean them all off the fence when the flowering has finished.
But just about anywhere they can climb or crawl along the ground is covered in flowers now.
Now that I see how Beautifull these blooms are I just might plant them in other areas of our yard, But I will see how hard removing all the dead vines later is first. 😎
💕 Have a wonderfull Sunday, I'm doing my regular visit to the sports field and bar for Ball & Beer today, watching and drinking. I may join the senior mens team next season?
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Vines can bring such beauty, but can be so invasive. If it's of the invasive quality be care where you move them to if you go that route. If it's a place you don't take care of regularly to keep it in place they will get out of control and choke out everything.
I learned the hard way loosing some very established flowers and then having to go with a scorched earth type of remedy to get rid of the flowering vines that overtook. First summer they were perfect and filled in an area I wanted something new and simple in, but the second summer was a nightmare.
Hate using any type of poisons in the yard or garden unless absolutely needed as you just don't know what micro ecosystem you are messing with, but went with roundup and killed off a 20 foot section of my garden to get rid of the vine.
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I was kind of concerned at how fast my new fence was covered in them. I'll have a good look after they die off and decide my options. If I find damage they are done by digging the roots out or constant cutting back.
First year I really noticed them as we have had decent rains this year. They are very pretty but only for a short period of time so that is a factor as well.
The only poison I use is for ants, as taking them on 1 at a time is impossible LOL
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Ants are always poisoned if I want them gone. The little ones every year find a way into our kitchen...oh how I hate them.
Look to see if the way they attached to the fence is destructive at all. It was extremely hard to get that part off our house. Think if it was a wood siding it would have been impossible without doing damage to the siding.
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I know some vines can actually burrow into wood but these are just tiny and don't have barb type anchors. I just noticed an ant freeway out back yesterday, it makes finding the nest kinda easy when they work at night. Looks like they cleaned out a pea bush. I'll maybe do a blog about our pea's today.
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The barb type anchors is what the one I had to deal with. Didn't realize it when we planted and really wish the nursery would have bothered to warn me. PITA to say the least.
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One good thing came from them, a shoot found a crack in my foundation and grew into the basement so I was able to find the crack and repair it...lol
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The flowers are beautiful. Especially the way the vines grow over the tree. I had a similar experience when I thought it would be a great idea to grow my own blackberry plant/bush. I had forgotten as a child how much they spread and invade. But wow, the berries seemed worth it.
After a few years, I had to rethink my love for berries over the never ending battle of the thorny vines.
The final verdict... the vines had to go and I would go back to buying the berries.
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these vines are tiny from ground to tips and I see them everywhere now so no big deal unless they are damaging my fence in some way or are too much of a pain to remove when dead or dormant.
Time will tell.
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