I'm making some changes in my yard and have an Akebia vine I'd like to give
away. I'm in a northern Seattle, Washington suburb, if you're interested.

This vine species grows quickly and produces an abundance of unusual flowers
that are fragrant. I've cut it back to about three feet, but it can be cut
to the ground and will come back with gusto. Given the best conditions,
it'll grow to 30 feet, but I've had it at about six feet growing laterally
on a trellis.
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Best regards,
Brian Bigler

I'd take it, but I bet you're not willing to dig it up and ship it to me
here in Eastern Tennessee................G
madgardener (it'd have a good home, my friend Mary Emma has a 15 year old
akebia that she can't get outa the ground now..........it can be a thug, but
I love thugs)
"Brian & Mary Bigler" wrote in message
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I'm making some changes in my yard and have an Akebia vine I'd like to
give
away. I'm in a northern Seattle, Washington suburb, if you're interested.

This vine species grows quickly and produces an abundance of unusual
flowers
that are fragrant. I've cut it back to about three feet, but it can be
cut
to the ground and will come back with gusto. Given the best conditions,
it'll grow to 30 feet, but I've had it at about six feet growing laterally
on a trellis.
--
Best regards,
Brian Bigler

I wouldn't mind trying it, but it's a long drive up there from the High Mojave
Desert!


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"Brian & Mary Bigler" wrote in message
hlink.net...
I'm making some changes in my yard and have an Akebia vine I'd like to give
away. I'm in a northern Seattle, Washington suburb, if you're interested.

This vine species grows quickly and produces an abundance of unusual flowers
that are fragrant. I've cut it back to about three feet, but it can be cut
to the ground and will come back with gusto. Given the best conditions,
it'll grow to 30 feet, but I've had it at about six feet growing laterally
on a trellis.
--
Best regards,
Brian Bigler




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"Brian & Mary Bigler" wrote in message
hlink.net...
I'm making some changes in my yard and have an Akebia vine I'd like to give
away. I'm in a northern Seattle, Washington suburb, if you're interested.

This vine species grows quickly and produces an abundance of unusual flowers
that are fragrant. I've cut it back to about three feet, but it can be cut
to the ground and will come back with gusto. Given the best conditions,
it'll grow to 30 feet, but I've had it at about six feet growing laterally
on a trellis.
--
Best regards,
Brian Bigler

Lest anyone think you're just trying to unload a miserable plant, I have
two pages for it, & it's one of my favorite things:
http://www.paghat.com/akebia.html
http://www.paghat.com/akebiafruit.html
To ever obtain the fruit one has to have more than one variety which will
cross-pollinate.
Though it does well enough on a trellis, it's ideal on an arbor.

I'd come get it but I have plenty of it already.

I also have a more fully evergreen akebia called China Blue Vine. It grew
to the top of the garage in a single season, but I haven't seen its blooms
yet.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

I have an Akebia that's been growing in a tub for the past three years. It's
very happy and done beautifully. The last time I moved I had to whack it
down in full bloom and was really afraid I might have killed it but it came
back just fine. It's now growing up a four sided trellis I have stuck in the
tub. Perhaps someone with a balcony garden might want to give it a home.

I was in a serious accident that left me with very limited physical
capabilities. I was so depressed thinking that I wouldn't be gardening
anymore. For 30 years I have had HUGE, fabulous gardens that were my
passion. When I first moved into an apartment I just wept thinking that now
all I have is a little balcony for a damned ol' pot of geraniums, but I've
found that just about anything will grow in a tub or pot. I have bulbs,
iris, vines, perennials, trees and a box of herbs. It's amazing. So perhaps,
Brian, you may know of someone who thinks that the only garden they can have
is "a damned ol' pot of geraniums" and you could pass it on to them.

Val



"Brian & Mary Bigler" wrote in message
hlink.net...
I'm making some changes in my yard and have an Akebia vine I'd like to
give
away. I'm in a northern Seattle, Washington suburb, if you're interested.

This vine species grows quickly and produces an abundance of unusual
flowers
that are fragrant. I've cut it back to about three feet, but it can be
cut
to the ground and will come back with gusto. Given the best conditions,
it'll grow to 30 feet, but I've had it at about six feet growing laterally
on a trellis.
--
Best regards,
Brian Bigler

In article 1044309323.561386@yasure, "Valkyrie" wrote:

I have an Akebia that's been growing in a tub for the past three years. It's
very happy and done beautifully. The last time I moved I had to whack it
down in full bloom and was really afraid I might have killed it but it came
back just fine. It's now growing up a four sided trellis I have stuck in the
tub. Perhaps someone with a balcony garden might want to give it a home.

I was in a serious accident that left me with very limited physical
capabilities. I was so depressed thinking that I wouldn't be gardening
anymore. For 30 years I have had HUGE, fabulous gardens that were my
passion. When I first moved into an apartment I just wept thinking that now
all I have is a little balcony for a damned ol' pot of geraniums, but I've
found that just about anything will grow in a tub or pot. I have bulbs,
iris, vines, perennials, trees and a box of herbs. It's amazing. So perhaps,
Brian, you may know of someone who thinks that the only garden they can have
is "a damned ol' pot of geraniums" and you could pass it on to them.

Val

So sad about the injury. I know women who garden intensely who're even in
wheelchairs, using extending-tongs to reach the ground when not just
laying out flat & dragging about. Seems to me the main concession is
tables in the garden to prepare from, & no really rough-stoned pathways,
but it's not like they had to ramp the whole place, they just needed
mountainbike wheels on their chair & no huge obstacles in the way. As I
get older & just normally stiff from age, I picture myself deteriorating
toward 90, someday dragging through the yard very happy because of
pain-killing opiates, tra-la-la'ing as I dig magic holes from which simple
plantings turn out to be quite fabulous thanks to perpetual hallucination.
If I ever had to be restricted to balcony gardening I suppose I'd adapt,
since people do adapt to much worse.

I'd be apt to toss the geraniums over the side though (unless my favorite
crane's-bills rather than those cruddy graveyard decorations).

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

I'd be apt to toss the geraniums over the side though (unless my favorite
crane's-bills rather than those cruddy graveyard decorations).

-paghat the ratgirl

I actually have two crane's bill plants, one as an underplanting in the
witch hazel tree tub and the other in with the winter jasmine and several
scented geraniums also. Those "Ed Hume color spots" are just not to my taste
either. The crocus are starting to peek through now too. My balcony is so
loaded now that I don't have room to maneuver a wheelchair. I have to sort
of perch on a little stool with wheels since that's just about the width of
the trail left open. One good thing about the mass of plants is that if I
get off balance sitting on my the stool I can't fall off!

I had a pretty good method of "butt skootin' " gardening for awhile while
still living in my house. I'd put on an old pair of rain gear bibs, slide
out of my chair and scoot along pulling an old laundry basket for tools and
weeds and trimming. I'd call a neighbor on the cordless phone and he'd come
over, bring the wheelchair from where I dumped out of it, help load me up,
empty the basket into the compost and we'd have a cup of coffee. I must say
though that the way I am gardening now has proved to be much better for me.
I can putter around even in inclement weather, which I couldn't do before,
and things don't totally overwhelm me. I still have a real problem admitting
I have some limitations on what I'm capable of and I'd just as soon not have
to be bailed out of those "what the hell where you thinking" situations too
often. Such as the time I figured out how to get up a ladder to hang some
kewl artsy stuff on the ceiling of my balcony and then realized I couldn't
get back down. I always have a little phone clipped on my belt so I called
a friend to come help me down.

Hello
Hi, I'm stuck.
What?
I'm stuck on top of a ladder and I can't get down.
What!!?
I'm stuck on a damned ladder and I have to pee really, REALLY bad, can you
come over for a few minutes and help me?
ohferchrissakes
*click*
.....within 10 minutes she arrives...

Hello??
I'm out on the balcony.
Ohferchrissakes, what are you doing up on a ladder?
Hanging kewl artsy shit, looks pretty good, huh?
Yeah, looks great, how did you get up there?
I figured it out. I just can't get down, apparently it doesn't work the same
in reverse.
Ohferchrissakes.
...... a few minutes of what amounted to a vaudeville routine and several
more "ohferchrissakes" and "don't make me laugh I have to pee" all was well
and I had a nice cup of tea and a visit with a good friend and was told that
I need to work within my limitations, which I promised to do as soon as I
figure out what they might possibly be ;-)

Val
"Use what talent you possess:
the woods would be very silent if no birds sang
except those that sang best."

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 18:44:57 -0800, "Valkyrie"
wrote:

Great Post snipped for space


Ohferchrissakes.
..... a few minutes of what amounted to a vaudeville routine and several
more "ohferchrissakes" and "don't make me laugh I have to pee" all was well
and I had a nice cup of tea and a visit with a good friend and was told that
I need to work within my limitations, which I promised to do as soon as I
figure out what they might possibly be ;-)

Val
"Use what talent you possess:
the woods would be very silent if no birds sang
except those that sang best."

Val, I like your style.

zhan

In article 1044326699.221233@yasure, "Valkyrie" wrote:

I'd be apt to toss the geraniums over the side though (unless my favorite
crane's-bills rather than those cruddy graveyard decorations).

-paghat the ratgirl

I actually have two crane's bill plants, one as an underplanting in the
witch hazel tree tub and the other in with the winter jasmine and several
scented geraniums also. Those "Ed Hume color spots" are just not to my taste
either. The crocus are starting to peek through now too. My balcony is so
loaded now that I don't have room to maneuver a wheelchair. I have to sort
of perch on a little stool with wheels since that's just about the width of
the trail left open. One good thing about the mass of plants is that if I
get off balance sitting on my the stool I can't fall off!

I had a pretty good method of "butt skootin' " gardening for awhile while
still living in my house. I'd put on an old pair of rain gear bibs, slide
out of my chair and scoot along pulling an old laundry basket for tools and
weeds and trimming. I'd call a neighbor on the cordless phone and he'd come
over, bring the wheelchair from where I dumped out of it, help load me up,
empty the basket into the compost and we'd have a cup of coffee. I must say
though that the way I am gardening now has proved to be much better for me.
I can putter around even in inclement weather, which I couldn't do before,
and things don't totally overwhelm me. I still have a real problem admitting
I have some limitations on what I'm capable of and I'd just as soon not have
to be bailed out of those "what the hell where you thinking" situations too
often. Such as the time I figured out how to get up a ladder to hang some
kewl artsy stuff on the ceiling of my balcony and then realized I couldn't
get back down. I always have a little phone clipped on my belt so I called
a friend to come help me down.

Hello
Hi, I'm stuck.
What?
I'm stuck on top of a ladder and I can't get down.
What!!?
I'm stuck on a damned ladder and I have to pee really, REALLY bad, can you
come over for a few minutes and help me?
ohferchrissakes
*click*
....within 10 minutes she arrives...

Hello??
I'm out on the balcony.
Ohferchrissakes, what are you doing up on a ladder?
Hanging kewl artsy shit, looks pretty good, huh?
Yeah, looks great, how did you get up there?
I figured it out. I just can't get down, apparently it doesn't work the same
in reverse.
Ohferchrissakes.
..... a few minutes of what amounted to a vaudeville routine and several
more "ohferchrissakes" and "don't make me laugh I have to pee" all was well
and I had a nice cup of tea and a visit with a good friend and was told that
I need to work within my limitations, which I promised to do as soon as I
figure out what they might possibly be ;-)

Val

Funny stuff!

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

I was just told today about the akebia vine and would love to have one if you still are looking for good homes. Thanks, Teresa

teah5961 wrote:
Brian & Mary Bigler Wrote:
I'm making some changes in my yard and have an Akebia vine I'd like to
give
away. I'm in a northern Seattle, Washington suburb, if you're
interested.

I was just told today about the akebia vine and would love to have one
if you still are looking for good homes. Thanks, Teresa

I was the lucky one that took Brian up on his offer.

Here it is (on the left side of house):
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/View...334&p=67888842

By the way, that was in February. Of 2003.


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Hello Biglers! We just had to say good-bye to an aged Clematis vine covering our wooden lawn swing and are interested in talking with you about your China Blue vine. We read about this vine at Flower World and think it would do well in our garden at this spot. I am new to this site, would like to communicate with you, and would like your advice on the best way for us to speak...e-mail?...phone? Thanks! Mary Ann