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This is What happens in Florida if you take a potted plant that died and dump it in the corner of the fence, right behind a bush that hides the evidence of said dumping.
Many years ago, about 20, I think, my fellow team members at work sent me a live mixed plant garden. It had a few green leaves of pothos plant 1 small tiny tree thingy, ivy and cut daisies.
I, of the black thumb, neglected to water it and soon it traveled over the leafy trail into plant never-never land, and turned quite brown. NOTE: I thought it was DEAD and it would be ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
I forgot I live in the tropics.
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soon, the tiny vine covered the bush, the leaves grew to HUGE leaves, the vines climbed the fence, they traveled to the top of the oak tree.
They wandered up the fence, not just one fence but 3 fences..
The man of the house, with many
And cut back The Vines.
And Cut Back The Vines, and on and on over the years. He has chopped for 20 years.
What happens in Florida, stays here and stays here and stays here.
The good news 😜 is, as you can see in the first few photos, the wandering vines are quite lovely as they travel around the yard in the sun headed for fence number 4.
Alas! The Man Is Not Impressed with the lovely vine traveling. But that is another story.
Todays Photos taken In January of 2020....by the MadSnapper, who Madly dumped the dead plant and tried to hide the evidence.
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15 comments:
Hilarious and almost unbelievable. LOVE the play on the old fairy tale limerick! Loved seeing it's progress in the pictures, too.
Hari OM
YYYYYAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY a fabulous offering to the FFF fold!!! A proper 'beanstalk' story &*> I like this kind of vine and in OZ always had a couple around. Here, the have to stay as pot plants... YAM xx
Sounds like our passion fruit vine. But, it's not from me...the birds literally dumped it.
Stands to reason, yours was meant to be.
I don't like the climbing plants that I have no control over.
I call them "strangle plants". Except for roses ...
Well your black thumb did just fine with an outdoor plant. It just doesn't like working inside. That is amazing how huge it got
Hello,
I would like to see these big leaves and oak tree. It looks similar to a hanging house plant, I use to have. We have some invasive vines that want to take over our yard and neighborhood. Have a happy day!
I laughed at this story. The photos are great, so lush and green your garden of the dead plant ;)
LOL...What a marvelous story, and a beautiful "wild houseplant"!
What a great tale about a trail gone wild! You are so creative!
Laughing out loud because last Saturday I grew tired/guilty of looking at 3 of our deceased (cause of death: neglect) ...and threw them into the big green can. It's pretty cold yet, but darn rainy. Maybe they'll come back to life feeding on all that rot at the landfill/city dump. (Yeeesch, right?)
I say bravo you added beauty to the corner w/o even trying.
Who knew it would love living out of doors in the heat and humidity?
Hugs and what a great FFF today
Cecilia
Oh my goodness that was amazing - I am a plant killer - wonder if I could have grown it? No doubt it.
Sandra, you are quite the story teller...love your Wild Tale.
Weeds seem to think they have rule of the place but our lawn guy makes pretty quick work of them.
Right now he is fertilizing our lawn and trimmed all the bushes.
All neat and tidy....
Hope all goes well with your appointment.
Sue
The plant that grew and grew and grew....one wonders where it would have been by now if the man of the house had not did the chopping.
That is the kind of plant I have at times tried to grow indoors, without much luck, I might add. I used to have a green thumb, but it has turned brown.
The humidity is enough to keep them going. I like Pothos, I have two in the house.
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