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I've got tons of pipes

17 years ago

I checked my pipevines yesterday and there are hundreds of little pipes on them. I didn't prune last fall.

Penny

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MissSherry
17 years ago
That's great!
You must be having spring. It's freezing cold, here, got down to the mid-20's last night, and it's still only 40 degrees! I'm ready for spring!
MissSherry
caterwallin
17 years ago
Woohoo, Penny! It sounds like you have a mother load of pipes there! Maybe someday I'll get PVST here, but I don't have any type of pipevine planted yet. I'm so busy with other plants this year and other butterfly projects that I think I've already overextended myself with time and money. I forget if any pipevines would make it over winter here. I'd have to look it up somewhere. I'd love to have the butterflies someday. They wouldn't be anywhere near here right now. It's only 20Â° and with the wind chill it only feels like 9Â°. Tonight it's supposed to get down to 5Â°, so I can imagine that with the wind chill it will probably be about 10 BELOW. We don't have quite a foot of snow on the ground, so we didn't get dumped on too much. Other areas had a foot or more, even 2 or 3 feet. NY is even worse. That must have been rough for those travelers being stranded on one of our interstates for a day or more here in PA. You'd think that there'd be some type of plan in place ahead of time for a situation like that, BUT...

I'm definitely looking forward to spring now for sure.
Good luck with those pipes! :)

Cathy
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Yay!

We're having a wonderful warm spell now...go figure. Perhaps ol' Phil was right after all and spring is on its way? :) I sure hope so since I brought home SO many Painted Ladies this long weekend to 'babysit' and I am hoping they become amorous and we end up with loads of eggs (my students are looking forward to more caterpillars...). :)
linda_centralokzn6
17 years ago
That's wonderful, Penny. Are they on your A. california? Aren't they pretty large pipes? Hope that you have a great Pipevine season. I'm hoping that this will be my big year!!!
susanlynne48
17 years ago
Linda, how big are your pipevines, and how long have they been in the ground?

I don't expect mine to get really large until next year (2008).

Susan
emmayct
17 years ago
Hehe, when I saw the title of this post, I thought you had a ton of PVC pipes and wanted to use them in some kind of cage building project.

Those of us up here in the cold north can't conceive of anything actually growing and flowering now.

Last year I located wild a. Serpentaria and hope to see pipes on it, but it was either the wrong time of year or the plants were too small.

penny, I'd be great if you could post a picture!

Sherry, do painted ladies breed in captivity? How cool. I wonder if other species can be coaxed into that?

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