OK, horticulturists: what IS this vine? It's non-flowering and creepy, really. I will have to move the hibiscus I just planted (to its right) because it hadn't quite yet exploded as it has. I've noticed other houses with arbors that have this same vine so I guess it was planted intentionally. It takes over and provides shade, I guess. I think I may dig it up in the fall, though I have taken note of its trunk and roots — it will be an afternoon project. If it were morning glories, no problem. But this borders on invasive.
Meanwhile, every place has its gardening challenges (up north it was a weird sort of bamboo-looking weed that couldn't be eradicated). Here, in addition to this vine, is another vine that creeps along the ground and then takes off as in strangling the raspberry bushes. It is totally obnoxious. I spent twenty minutes yanking this sycophant off the bushes, losing a couple of precious raspberries in the process.
My pepper plantation is miserable.
And I don't know what the squirrels do other than fling maple leaves all over the backyard. It looks a mess because it is one.
So, yeah, gardening has become quite a challenge. Like golf (which I have never played and never will).
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I can't get the pic to enlarge enough to see it well, but I sure hope it's not kudzu. That'll take over everything. The leaves look a little large for kudzu, even in the smallish pic, so hopefully you are spared that fate! :)
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