DoomsdaysCW<p>I stand corrected, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ni.hil.ist/@mu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mu</span></a></span> . <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VirginiaCreeper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VirginiaCreeper</span></a> is native to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a>, but it can get out of control and potentially strangle maple trees and lilacs (which we have a lot of). I'll focus on keeping it away from the trees.</p><p>"Q - I find the Virginia Creeper to be a very invasive plant. It climbs up my lilacs 20 ft high, basically anything that isn’t evergreen. I went to trim my forsythia and half of what I cut off were Creeper vines. I also battled Norway Maples and the small leafed rose that are defined as invasive but what’s up with this vine?"</p><p>"A - Virginia creeper/woodbine (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) is a highly adaptable, native Maine plant that thrives in a number of environments, and provides multiple animal species with food in the wild. Because of this, it’s often used to reclaim ground to fill in holes in the landscape or to effect an erosion control strategy. Also because of this, it can get out of hand under the right conditions, and it sounds like you may have them."</p><p><a href="https://extension.umaine.edu/gardening/2024/06/12/how-do-you-control-virginia-creeper/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">extension.umaine.edu/gardening</span><span class="invisible">/2024/06/12/how-do-you-control-virginia-creeper/</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@ZoeOeoZ" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ZoeOeoZ</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gardening</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GardeningForPollinators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GardeningForPollinators</span></a></p>