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To: Annette who wrote (641)	6/1/1999 10:17:00 PM
From: AugustWest	Respond to of 3496

Trumpet vines are miserable if they grow along your house. When I was living in the midwest doing college, I bought an old warehouse in a ghost town of a defunct furniture company. Anyhow, my building was made of sandstone. Wonderful building, but the Trumpet vines had overtaken most of it when I got there. Trying to get it out of the mortar between the stones caused me a lot of worry. Eventually the top part of the back wall gave out, and I had to do some serious work in late August before winter set in. As it wasm I framed it in with mostly salvaged lumber, and sheeted it with thick plastic sheets. Ended up selling it to another ceramicist who did wonders with it until the pipes of his wood stove caused the place to burn down. By then, someone somewhere got wise and made him and his family move out, and they level the thing. So sorry for the story, but that's what I think of every time I see Trumpet vines.

To: Annette who wrote (641)	6/1/1999 10:19:00 PM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 3496

We planted a native poplar in one corner of our yard about 20 years ago. Most of our farm was virtually treeless back then except for a few acres at the back where we dug up the little poplar. Anyhow, the little poplar grew to be about 12 feet tall in a very short time. We used to sit under it because it was the only shade tree in the yard at the time. Then one day a storm came through and the winds snapped the lone poplar off at the ground. We lamented over that for awhile, but then more poplars started coming up all around the area where the little tree had been. There is now a grove of about a dozen poplars in that corner of the yard... many of them more than 25 feet tall. A couple have even died and been cut up for firewood over the years. They are very invasive and are trying to take over in the vegetable garden as they send out roots and new saplings in an attempt to colonize every area of the yard. Hard to believe it all started with one innocent-looking little tree... (-: