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To: Aliska
Beautiful roses and plantings. I'm itching to plant a passionvine at the corner of your house on a trellis.


38 posted on 05/11/2012 3:22:56 PM PDT by txhurl (Thank you, Andrew Breitbart. In your untimely passing, you have exposed these people one last time.)
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To: txhurl
Thank you. Passion vines are not winter hardy here even though the climate change has moved us a half zone warmer, not warm enough. I might be able to grow one in the sunroom but I have enough to care for in there for the winter. I also wanted a bougainvillea which aren't hardy here either.

I've got some trellises that need assembling and plenty of things that are hardy here. One rose I set out 2 years ago is a vigorous climber and is going to be too much for me. That monster rose in my photo only blooms in the spring and I've been thinking of getting rid of it, don't know.

I was going to get rid of the 6 apricot roses like that one photo because I'm tired of having my hands and arms (and clothes) torn up trying to weed around and through them but they're so beautiful and rebloom all summer I will try to put up with it.

It won't be happy out there once the Jap beetles emerge but I don't waste too much energy on them. I hope my cherries are good and can get them frozen before they come. This is year 3 for that little tree and I need to untie and pull out that stake.

That passionvine sure is pretty though, I must say. I'd settle for a honeysuckle if I could find some like a couple I've seen around town that tells me they are hardy. Only problem is some are invasive or hard to keep in bounds.

39 posted on 05/11/2012 3:43:33 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: txhurl

I would love to have one of those.


63 posted on 05/12/2012 11:23:02 AM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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