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Gardening

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3. lol.... I'd be in heaven with a yard covered in ivy, honeysuckle, with edible mint & myrtle....

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 08:14 PM

Mar 2012

Add some nice trees and some lilac bushes and I'd be ecstatic....! Different strokes and all that, I guess.

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Personally, I love ivy... why is it supposedly bad for the house? hlthe2b Mar 2012 #1

It likes to pull the shingles off Retrograde Apr 2012 #12

You sound like me with creeping myrtle, Curmudgeoness Mar 2012 #2

LOL, You can have it! Curmudgeoness Mar 2012 #4

That is the bindweed curlyred Apr 2012 #10

It only takes 1/4" of stem left in the ground to survive. Nasty shit. HopeHoops Apr 2012 #11

I'd use Roundup kurtzapril4 Mar 2012 #6

I'm allergic to it. LWolf Mar 2012 #7

The Ivy gives you hives? kurtzapril4 Mar 2012 #8

The ivy. LWolf Apr 2012 #13

Vinegar only top kills kurtzapril4 Apr 2012 #14

Acidifying is okay, LWolf Apr 2012 #15