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Re: [SG] Plant Suggestions
Roberta Diehl wrote:
>
> With all due respect, Clyde should have stressed that the variegated form
> of Ampelopsis, which is weaker and better behaved, be used. I ordered the
> variegated form from Shady Oaks Nursery several years ago, and by mistake
> they sent me the plain green leaved form. I called and complained. In
> response, they sent me not the right plant, but a 50-cent refund!!
>
> I planted the plain green form anyway, hoping for the best, and it romped
> up the little fence I'd planted it against, romped through my big white
> lilac bush, romped over to the telephone pole and up it, and now a great
> ugly sheaf of porcelain vine is draping over and weighing down the
> electric lines into our house. We have cut it off at the base, but the
> dead stuff is still there looking yucky. Plus my husband is greatly
> annoyed and may never forgive me.
>
> If there had been anything taller than the telephone pole around for it to
> climb up, it would still be climbing. Sounds kind of like kudzu, doesn't
> it??? "Put up a trellis," indeed. The moral, if any, is that in gardening
> you NEVER bother to hope for the best. Just expect the worst and save
> yourself some time.
>
> Bobbi Diehl
> Bloomington, IN
> zone 5/6
>
> ---------
> > Put up a trellis and grow the porcelain vine Ampelopsis brevipedunculata
> >
> > Clyde Crockett z5 ccredux@aol.com Indy IN
> >************
Worst part is, I believe your vine has gone East, and has just entered my
garden from the West side !!!!!!!!!
Ran
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