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posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on June 2, 2020 at 7:08 PM
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I really hate "Poison Ivy"!
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on June 2, 2020 at 3:45 PM
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Speaking of Virginia Creeper, my parents were driving down through Virginia and when she saw a road sign that said "PLANT CROSSING" she completely misunderstood it.
She also replaced the 'lawn' that my dad never wanted, but the builders put it in anyway. When it had died from his 'calculated neglect' she got ivy starts from an estate that welcomed her taking them, and dug little holes all over the yard, put some peat and 3-4 little starts in each one. Years later, the house, downhill from the street, was vanishing under a wave of the stuff!
posted by
Ciel
on June 2, 2020 at 12:38 PM
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Re: For being old, it is articulate and ahead of the times.
I guess so, it does not matter so much when one is past it though.
posted by
C_C_T
on June 2, 2020 at 11:33 AM
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Oh! dear Taps I hate Ivy it is so rampant and aggressive. I do let one large hawthorn tree bear it as the robins nest there.
posted by
C_C_T
on June 2, 2020 at 11:31 AM
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Re: Kabu
Well I think I would prefer Virginia Creeper, but that grows like wild fire ,but is more attractive. The cottage next to me used to be covered in V.G.. It was all taken off but odd bits keep coming along my fence.
posted by
C_C_T
on June 2, 2020 at 11:28 AM
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Re: I begin to think the vine should be removed before the tree chokes.
THe problem is Pat it starves the original tree of light eventually. The wretched stuff climbs up everywhere.
posted by
C_C_T
on June 2, 2020 at 11:24 AM
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Re: Sea gypsy
Hello S.G . nice to see you back. Thank you.
posted by
C_C_T
on June 2, 2020 at 11:22 AM
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Re: FS
Hopefully it is habit forming,
posted by
C_C_T
on June 2, 2020 at 11:20 AM
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It's tough to really show just how much one loves another. It definitely goes beyond the words...
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on June 2, 2020 at 5:26 AM
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When I think of a lot of ivy I am reminded of Black Widows who live in it. Yes, one must be careful with certain verbiage these days. A cute poem.
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on June 1, 2020 at 8:46 PM
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I begin to think the vine should be removed before the tree chokes.
But then both are green, and the tree has bark growing in between. There's a tree near The Center where I used to go before the virus - 50 feet tall or more and with a trunk so huge it would take two or three people to reach all around it. But the ivy has taken over, all the way up to the thinnest limbs and I fear with the terrific winds we have here sometimes, it will block the road when it falls and maybe destroy The Center or worse - the tavern next door.
posted by
Pat_B
on June 1, 2020 at 1:56 PM
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I always think that I would love an old cottage with really thick walls and ivy on the walls to hide away behind.
posted by
Kabu
on June 1, 2020 at 1:28 PM
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A man is always a man, no matter how old he gets his thinking stays pretty much the same.
This on Ivy by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874 - 1936:
"Your ivy is so beautifully soft and thick," said the American lady,
"it seems to cover almost everything. It must be the most poetical
thing in England."
"It is very beautiful," I said, "and, as you say, it is very English.
Charles Dickens, who was almost more English than England,
wrote one of his rare poems about the beauty of ivy.
Yes, by all means let us admire the ivy, so deep, so warm,
so full of a genial gloom and a grotesque tenderness.
Let us admire the ivy; and let us pray to God in His mercy
that it may not kill the tree."
posted by
TAPS.
on June 1, 2020 at 1:17 PM
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For being old, it is articulate and ahead of the times.
Gotta watch words, phrases and titles. Someone, somewhere will be offended by it if not. It has become a sign of our times.
posted by
Sherri_G
on June 1, 2020 at 11:09 AM
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