It's a wisteria and I know it's invasive and non-native and I'm sorry but I still want a wisteria tree in my front yard. Last summer I yanked up a runner from the tree shown in the top picture (my neighbor's tree in bloom) and potted it up. Lo and behold it survived the winter and is now growing inches a day. Soon I'll find a place to plant it. If I keep the runners in check, and put in my will that whoever lives in this house after me must also keep the runners in check, well then I've done what I can. In return for the (in my view) fairly minor sin of growing a wisteria tree I will continue to not use my clothes dryer. For about 4 years now we've basically not used the dryer so look how much energy we've saved! I'm not sure that this is an apples to apples trade but it's close enough.
The kitty in the tree is Kenny -- my neighbor's sweet boy. He likes to hang out in his tree while his owner sits on the ground under him reading. Maybe one day I'll get a picture of them together. It's very cute.
[Note: This is the neighbor who proudly flies the Tea Party flag so I'm thrilled that she (he? the husband?) decided to take the flag down for a while. We've only become friendly in the last couple of years so it will be interesting to see how we get along when I put up my Obama sign in September.]
2 comments:
I can so relate to the Wisteria dilemma. So many fors and againsts. I still haven't got one and the argument rages on in my head.
That is SO PRETTY though! And yay for Obama!!
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