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May. 6th, 2007
Creeping stuff.
May. 6th, 2007 11:06 pmWhatever ivy-like shrubs have infiltrated our flower beds have been dealt a serious blow this afternoon by yours truly. I'm always a little worried; Mrs. Cwabs has done the flower bed maintenance several times now and had some sort of allergic reaction to something twice. The first time she pulled a bunch of weeds, flew to France, and discovered that "poison ivy" is not something that French pharmacists understand.
We had two different species of creeping vine in the flowerbed. One with five leaf arrangements, and one with the dreaded three-leaf arrangement, which doesn't really resemble poison ivy photos on Wikipedia. Of course, that doesn't mean that somewhere in the flower bed we don't have a patch of it.
In any case, the vines had crept up the walls to the eaves, and rather than have to replace all the wooden parts of my house, I yanked 'em all down. They filled up 3/4's of a government-issue yard waste receptacle. I scrubbed myself well afterward, but we'll see in a day or so whether I might have been better off with long sleeves.
We had two different species of creeping vine in the flowerbed. One with five leaf arrangements, and one with the dreaded three-leaf arrangement, which doesn't really resemble poison ivy photos on Wikipedia. Of course, that doesn't mean that somewhere in the flower bed we don't have a patch of it.
In any case, the vines had crept up the walls to the eaves, and rather than have to replace all the wooden parts of my house, I yanked 'em all down. They filled up 3/4's of a government-issue yard waste receptacle. I scrubbed myself well afterward, but we'll see in a day or so whether I might have been better off with long sleeves.