flowerbug
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i can see why there is so much drama down there! calling those snowflakes snowballs... you'd think you'd about done near had a conniption!
Nawthern vs Southern
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Beekissed
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Oh, yeah, yer gonna fit in good here.....
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You know YOU can help them. Kudzu is perfectly edible by people too (the Japanese actually PLANT it to eat) Kudzu dolmades from the leaves, Kudzu fritters from the flowers, and of course (like the Japanese) Kudzu starch from the roots.
But seriously, one big thing I have realized is that Kudzu is not so much a Southern problem as an EVERYONE problem. We have some on a wall in my town (and remember I'm in New York) and it not only survives and grows from year to year, it seeds, and seeds hard (I've never figured out if Kudzu seeds in the South. I assume it does, but have never seen mention of it.) And the demarcation line (where they say the "wall" starts) in in Patterson NJ. Patches of Kudzu live as far north as Quebec.
baymule
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Obviously someone lived there before you. They are gone, but the bulb flowers remain.
Xerocles
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Yeah. That was for ducks4you, who said down here they're annuals. Nobody has lived here for 12 years and I have thousands of daffodil, jonquills, narcissus. And a bunch of gladiolas that need to be divided so they bloom again.
flowerbug
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You know the difference in a yankee and a darn yankee? A yankee goes home.
a darned yankee has nicer socks...
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And needs them to stay warm
baymule
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bulb flowers are among my favorites. I have Amaryllis that I have dug up and moved since my early 20's. I brought narcissus from our old house in Livingston where I lived for 30 years. I also brought jonquils from our old house that I dug up at my ex husband's old family home place because his granny loved them so much. I planted some on her grave and planted some at home to remind me of her.
I have to say, I haven't treated them very well here. I just dug trenches and dropped them in, just to get them planted. Despite my neglect, they come up and bloom for me. Narcissus are blooming now, the jonquils just started. What's not to love about bulb flowers?
