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Profile Image Eileen McHenry

emch

Gardening in mostly deep shade in Zone 6. My passion is adding more native plants to my landscape & clearing out the foreign invasives.

Pueraria montana

  • Season Icon Late AutumnLate Autumn 2020
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emch

What kudzu vines think about #killitwithfire

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philstalder

A terrible vine. It’s wrecked havoc in Hawaii and other places. Do not plant this anywhere. My opinion.

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emch

Huge stretches of the Southeastern USA are completely covered with it.

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ublaszko

Looks like ancient jungle 😂

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midnightgardener

Heavens that looks like a jungle nightmare 😱

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emch

It is a nightmare @midnightgardener ! The Cane Toad of the Southeastern USA! What these photos never make clear is that for some reason snakes love kudzu. Any area invaded by kudzu is practically knee-deep in snakes, and in that area it means copperheads and rattlers...

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midnightgardener

@emch Oh heavens that's bad, very bad 😱

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emch

The vines can grow a foot every day @midnightgardener

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midnightgardener

@emch Crikey, that's shocking. Some heavy duty weed-killer needed there 😱

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emch

Ah, but kudzu laughs at that too @midnightgardener ! The only solution is to dig out the 300-lb taproot. They even proved to chuckle at the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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