Ann wrote:
Shane expounded:

Wow, Thanks! You found the tree that I have been trying to track down
for some time now. I actually have one growing in my backyard and we
cut it down really low every year and it grows right back again. I
actually want to use to to hide a cement wall on our hill side in the
backyard. Unfortunately I have never seen that tree spread and I have
tried to grow it in other places, but had no luck.

It's funny how some trees that are a problem in some areas of the
country just aren't a pest where you (or I) are/am (how's that for a
tortured sentence? G)

I hear all the time what a horrid tree the pawlonia is, or the mimosa,
catalpa, etc. Around here they just aren't a problem. Nor is vinca,
the groundcover. English ivy, on the other hand (!!)

with that in mind, Annie me girl, wouldya like some Vinca Major for ye
garden woodlands??? GBSEG I've NEVER, EVER seen Vinca WILT, but the
drought that we're barely hinted at being just humid dusty (we got rain
a couple of days ago and the sucking sounds from the ground and leaves
outside the bedroom window kept me and James awake for
hours.............) but the VINCA, the vinca looked as if I'd doused it
with gasoline and set a match to it, it's been so dry here in Faerie
Holler. The fig tree is loaded with figs, but the ants and flying
assorted residents have put out the word far and wide that there be
moisture and it's SWEET!! so no figs for us, yet..........

but if you'd like to take on some of the Vinca, I'd be glad to pass you
a few roots along, just as an experiment. It's not hard to remove it you
keep on top of it, and my variety has a HUGE blue morning glory flower
in late spring.

maddie