Virginia Creeper News Alert

I have posted photos of this Virginia Creeper several times, but not the berries like this, it is more like Virginia RACER the way it grows.  It is a poison ivy look alike, and Bob had yanked it out for many years.

Click on  FORMER POSTS to view  how pretty the vine can be...

ALERT:  Last week Bob pulled vine after vine WITHOUT a shirt on.... 2 days later his back was covered in extreme rash, with blisters. He said it can't be the vine, I have pulled it for years, it is not poisonous.

 I turned to my friend GOOGLE and found that the milky liquid that comes from broken vines CAN and SOMETIMES does cause a rash.... Next time Bobby Appleseed will HEED his Wife and wear a shirt with long sleeves, gloves and other protection.

God's Everyday Art

 Virginia Creeper Art              

Our back yard has something new every day in the category of God's Everyday Art.

Raindrops on bananas art

 Three inch male brown anole on a palmetto Art

Last but not least Art.... Bob and I stood amazed at 12 to 15 fluttering orange flowers., seems all those caterpillars turned into Gulf Friterary Butterfly's on the same day. There was a flock a flutter and they were sitting on my camera, and flying in our hair and face.

and Kings Mantle Art and I added the butterfly in Picmonkey...because I could

One Weed - Many Faces

this weed can cover a house, a tree, a fence an entire acre, if left to grow. It pops up any and every where and is the dreaded weed I do NOT love.
UPDATE: I woke up to 9 comments and Squirrel Queen named this vine for me. Virginia Creeper

BUT, look at all it's pretty faces..... all found in our yard and trees, Bob constantly whacks and hacks this stuff.

MadSnapper Trivia
about 10 years ago , my dad mailed me a check for 125.00, for no reason,
he just said "I was sitting watching TV and I says to myself, Charles send Sandra a hundred dollars."
I had to call him and tell him our dog Max ate the check. Oh Yes, he did.

Daddy at age 89 could not understand  how to send another check. I said Daddy, add it back in and don't send us another check. we don't need it. He said no I want to send you the hundred dollars.  I said Daddy, you sent 125.00, what is written in your check book, he says 100.00.


I said add the 125.00 back and then write a check for 100 and minus it. we went round and round and he sent the replacement check , 125.00! and he had to go visit Uncle Jack to help him straighten it out.

Pretty is as pretty does

When I whined as a child/teen that I was not pretty, my mother always answered "pretty is as pretty does". This phrase works in reverse on the vine in our trees, "Pretty it is, but pretty it dosen't" is the perfect quote for Virginia Creeper.

this is the time of year, the vine we hate and would love to kill, turns a beautiful brilliant red, right at Christmas. This vine has been the  bane of our existence. It covers trees, buildings, fence, and I am thinking a person if you stand still for a while. Bob is constantly hacking at the roots of it to keep it from killing our trees and plants.

I went to Beginner Gardening to find the name of this hated vine and was totaly amazed to find people actually BUY this Plant and Plant it on purpose. To quote from Beginner Gardening (this is a site with a sense of humor, if you want a laugh, pop over and read his question and answers on the vine)

"Virgina Creeper never met a wall it didn’t like, a fence it couldn’t conquer or a plant it couldn’t smother." and "it's able to leap tall buildings in its first year and look out for the 2nd year." beginner gardening

we have seen this plant cover the whole top of a 50 year old oak tree in one summer. as i snapped away a few days before Christmas, my hubby moaned "all those red leaves will fall next week and be in the pool" and they will!

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill


except for learning how to grow in rows.

- Doug Larson