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http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/11/8/2179327/P1010075.JPG These are popping up everywhere. Many are two feet tall already, and don't seem particular about where they'll grow. Some under a pine tree (acid soil), others in normal soil, shade, sun, front, back. I thought I found an ID at UofI weed ID site. Wild Licorice. But then I googled that and nothing like those pictures. I dug these babies up to sniff the roots. No licorice scent. These are tiny ones...most are much bigger. Tree-ish or shrubbish stems. Hard enough that it would take scissors to snip them, at least the bigger stems. I'm stumped! |
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| Not a clue on the weed, but beautiful silver-gray cat! Hortster |
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- Posted by julianna_il z6 IL (My Page) on Thu, Apr 2, 09 at 22:27
| Awww, thanks! He's my big velvet teddy bear. He just *had* to sniff the plants. |
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| It appears to me that it is one of the honeysuckles that has sent out a stem that rooted. How big is your baby. I have had two cats with this color one regular size. The other would put his head down on my shoulder when I was sitting. Both just disappeared and never returned. They were very tender and did not extend their claws to me. |
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- Posted by julianna_il z6 IL (My Page) on Sat, Apr 4, 09 at 16:18
| He's huge....close to 20 pounds. He started life as a feral, was rescued in Seattle and adopted to a lovely woman. She had breast cancer and was dying and feared her family would dump him in a shelter. So she turned to an internet cat lover group, and I adopted him. He came cross-country on the "pet bus," and has just thrived. Strange thing...the day she died from breast cancer, he knew. I was getting out of the shower and he came in and just wept. I can't explain his meows other than weeping. I feared that's what it was, because he'd never cried like that, and I went to the Internet breast cancer group, and sure enough, she had passed a few hours before. Really a bittersweet story. |
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- Posted by julianna_il z6 IL (My Page) on Sat, Apr 4, 09 at 16:20
| Honeysuckle! Thank you...I'll google that, but I know it's invasive as heck. It's all over the place here...hadn't even thought of googling that because I had none. I love honeysuckle, though. I may leave one or two. |
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