Since a few WP plugins really messed up my plan to share posts with you over the holiday weekend, here’s a quick update from my walk in the neighborhood with the Grrr Girls after work tonight.
This, I hope, will make up a bit for my slacker status.
What’s Blooming in My ‘Hood?
Last month it was the wild wisteria. I even found some in my own garden, when I noticed all of them.
Gorgeous
and it was as beautiful to behold as it was to smell.
This month, right on schedule, is the wild honeysuckle season
It’s rather pleasant to stroll the neighborhood with the Grrrr Girls and come upon a sweet pool of honeysuckle, perfuming the humid evening…
Pretty Honeysuckle, sweet-smelling
growing here, there…
This grows everywhere, right now
hither, thither and yon…
Beware the Honeysuckle
However, be warned, the honeysuckle vine is flippin’ EVERYWHERE.
Not that I mind… too much…
Honeysuckle taking over a neighbor’s fence
just as long it’s not converging on my fences…
or growing in my shrubs.
Because while its flowers have a VERY intoxicating smell,
its vines are also quite invasive
Wild Honeysuckle Taking a Tree Hostage
and can smother a perfectly nice tree or shrub.
I have a love-hate relationship with the wild honeysuckle vine.
While it’s in bloom, I love it for its sweet perfume,
but
once the flowering ends, it’s just an invasive nuisance vine I have to prune, pluck and pull to keep from overtaking my yard.
Do you have any plants like that where you are, where you have a love-hate relationship with?
How have you dealt with them?
