RE: Spouses and the Garden now hops

Barb,
	There must be some good gargantuan vine stories.  Here's one :
My friend spent the better part of a weekend making an arbor to hold up his
golden Hops vine.  It was woven sapling trees and other large sticks all
tied and nailed together.  Well, this vine grew and grew, just as you
describe, and completely covered the arbor making a shady garden retreat.
One day the whole thing went down with a crash - fortunately no one was
sitting or standing under it.  Out of curiosity, he weighed the vines he cut
off the fallen arbor - 40# worth!  After I heard that story, I dug mine out!
Marilyn Dube'
Natural Designs Nursery
Portland, Oregon


-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-perennials@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Barb Pernacciaro
Sent:	Friday, August 09, 2002 4:34 PM
To:	perennials@hort.net
Subject:	RE: Spouses and the Garden now hops

I ordered a "Golden Hops" vine from somewhere in the pacific northwest about
5 years ago. Man, does it ever spread! Its main home is clambering up a
7-foot wrought iron arch in the backyard. And it has hops fruits (?) all
over at this time. Cute green papery cones.

Then I dug up rooted runners and planted it to grow up a trellis outside a
first floor bathroom window, and it did such a good job of growing that it
is like being inside a jungle now in the washroom looking out at the thick
greenery. But.... I had to suspend strings from the second floor bathroom
window above to tie to the trellis to stabilize it and the hops continued to
grow up to the second story on the cords. When it began reaching for the
brand new gutters we had installed this year, I had to get a long bamboo
pole and beat it back down!!!!

I've given pieces away to friends (with warnings); I hope they don't curse
my name in years to come.

-Barb in WI

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