God's "weeds"

[ruth]

Thanks all for your nice comments. I'm glad you enjoyed the "weeds" I brought back from my walk. The honeysuckle grows everywhere including all over the fence by the duck yard so it's great for masking the ducky stinky. The green bushes that flower so sweetly this time of year, I call "wild jasmine" - not sure what its real name is. I do know I have an entire forest of it here because it took over the former fields of this old plantation once it was abandoned. I always thought of it as an out of control bush you can't kill but here, it is having to be cut down with chain saws and has trunks the size of the oaks.

I didn't get a picture of the best part of the walk that I picked - the fresh blackberries - I ate them as fast as I could pick them. We haven't had our fields/pasture cut yet so the blackberries are everywhere. Yum Yum. I'm going back today with a bucket.

 

[texaschickmama]

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, I can smell that jasmine that you're talking about. My "mawmaw" and all the family lives in or around St. Francisivlle, LA, not too far from you. I think it's called Confederate Jasmine. It's not the yellow flowers, it's the white flowers, right? I LOVE that smell, it reminds me of all my family in Louisiana. You have to make blackberry cobbler, I'll be there in 9-10 hrs.

 

[ruth]

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Do come by next time you visit family - St. Francisville is our nearest town - it's only 20 miles down the road (Hwy. 61).

Yes, it's the very fragrant white flowers whose scent fills the southern air this time of year. It's truly heavenly. I cut it and bring it indoors. It's the only redeeming value to this otherwise prolific "weed" bush/tree. You honestly can't kill it. It grows everywhere you don't want it - don't even bother cutting it out, that just makes it bushier - you can dig it up by the roots and it still comes back. At each of my homes over the years, I left some to grow in my flower beds and next to my house. I've even topiaried some of them - simply because the flowers smell so great.

 

[English Chick]

Truly lovely display...... a weed is but a plant out of place in most peoples gardens.......I have some favourite weeds that I don't pull up, especially nettle, because the butterflies like to lay their eggs on them......

 

[ChooksChick]

Gorgeous! We won't have that kind of stuff going for a few more weeks, but I think the purple is a wild tall phlox- I love the stuff!!

My chicken coop and run is planted with honeysuckle, and this year we're putting in a pergola roof to train it across, along with the grapevines I just put in.

I love the smell of the honeysuckle in the morning, filling the house from all around!

Thanks for sharing!!