Did not know there was a native wisteria until your post. Thanks!Saw yet another black snake today. More snakes than I can rember seeing in a long time. Mimosa, prickly pear, yucca, and the native wisteria blooming along the roads.
You're welcome.Did not know there was a native wisteria until your post. Thanks!
I've seen enough asian wisteria take over trees and make a real eyesore that I wouldn't have any. Momma had some several times, it's pretty and smells good,but too invasive for me. I don't hate it as much as bradford pear(doesn't deserve capitalization),but close.You're welcome.
It looks the same as the more familiar Asian variety, just not as rampant and invasive. Leaves and flowers are much smaller and it blooms later- now and into summer vs. early spring.
The native W. frutescens is 100x more well-behaved than the Chinese or Japanese species. It's a good vine to plant on a chain link fence.You're welcome.
It looks the same as the more familiar Asian variety, just not as rampant and invasive. Leaves and flowers are much smaller and it blooms later- now and into summer vs. early spring.
I've only seen those a few times, down on the SC coast. They are indeed beautiful little birds.Saw a painted bunting today, a beautiful creature.
Strangely you don't see it cultivated like the Asian variety.The native W. frutescens is 100x more well-behaved than the Chinese or Japanese species. It's a good vine to plant on a chain link fence.
Most of them have definitely never read any Jens Jensen and his theories about a "sense of place." They come around here all the time and bulldoze down oaks, sourwoods, dogwoods, rhododendron, mountain laurel, and native azaleas and plant crape myrtles, junipers, and nandinas.Actually I think it's strange that the landscape/horticulture crowd spends so much time and effort in "developing" new varieties of cultivated plants rather than focusing on the already "developed" (over thousands of years) native varieties. Clear a new home sight then come in and start planting stuff that doesn't belong there in the first place. The heavy hand of man.
I knew a fellow from Tennessee that was on one of my ships, who said he used to write his name on his cotton sack with pokeberries.We've gotten small showers the last two nights - about .3" each. First rain the month of May. Saturday and again today I backed up and looked at two good gray rat snakes each close to 5' long dead in the road. Also today I passed another black snake dead and then to top it off backed up to examine yet another road kill and found a good solid 4' corn snake (red rat)! Man, if I'd'a been a little earlier I'd be telling you about the corn snake I caught! I don't see 'em much any more and when I do they're dead...
Have a volunteer poke weed in the yard that I let grow and provide seed for the birds. Several years old now and reaching 7' tall!