RE: 📷 Colorchallenge Sunday Purple 💜 what a great time to show off these little prettys 🌸
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.
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.
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.
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.
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