I try to cut them down every year, but man do those things grow fast! And thick vines! Some are as thick as my wrist and grow so high up in the trees there's no way I can reach them. But...I'll find a place for the new ones and keep a good eye on them. Thanks. ;) V.

Carefully cut them down and immediately paint the stump with RoundUp. It will resprout, but either brake the sprouts off or spray them with RoundUp. Suckers will also come up from the roots, but keep mowing them. Eventually, without leaves for photosynthesis, all will die. But it is an ongoing battle for a while.I usually never use Roundup, but do for locust and Johnson grass & poison ivy. (I am allergic to locust thorns and poison ivy, and you never get all of the roots of Johnson grass the first time.)

I have over 45 minis now with more in the works. Since I am pretty much out of room for giants, large and mediums I am reworking my want list by adding all sizes from the hosta registry so I know what I can squeeze in. I have a lot of Giants and Large that are spaced out for maturity which has taken up a lot of room. I have a few around my Empress Wu that will have to be moved out within the next couple of years but pretty much everything else has its own space to grow. As I watch certain hostas develop I am finding a few that I do not like and will have to get rid of like Whirlwind, Carnival and Twilight. My mature Frances Williams will probably go too. I already gave away a mature Love Pat because I don't like how the leaves hold all dirt and debris. I did keep a start from it since I have had the plant for 20 years. Someone gave me Abiqua Drinking Gourd as a gift so I can't get rid of that one.

I would have never put braces on my kids when they were younger than 13 years old. I was talked into it for both of them at the same time, 11 & 9 yrs old. Believe it or not! 11 yo got them off around 13 and never wore his retainer. All that money & pain was for naught, his teeth are as bad as ever (at 20 yo). 9 yo had to have them a second time, and by that time, he was still under 13 and I said NO, we'll wait. He got them done again at 14 and got them off at 16 and wears his retainer and has beautiful teeth. In addition to the retainer problems, 11 yo had to get some oral surgery to get some of his teeth to grow in so the brace work could continue properly. I can't help but think that if we'd just waited for all those teeth to grow in on their own, no matter how crooked, all of the bracework would have been done at once, properly and would have lasted. Aside from that, the only other things I would have wanted to be different were out of my control so no point crying about them now. Good discussion question!