No it doesnt look like that at all. There is a male and female plant it seems. i had one plant but it divided into a male and female which i have a few of now growing together. The female gets strange looking seed pods at the tip of the vine holding 4 or 5 flat seeds inside in fall.the male has totally different pollen flowers. Each grouping of leaves sprout from the same point on the stem making a whorl around the stalk. i have had the plant for 15 years but been unsuccessful at getting any seeds to grow

Pardon my ignorance. It was listed as a wildflower in one of the books I read. I can understand how you feel though. I lived in Hawaii for 3 years, and there were quite a few native animals(and I believe plants as well) who were made extinct or almost extinct from alien animals, insects, etc. Their laws as to what can come onto the islands now, as such as animals(no snakes allowed, for example) is very understandable. However, I found out recently that this Cleome(ironically, a native of Hawaii) was born from seeds my one neighbor gave to my other neighbor(who lives right behind the mailbox), who gave them to her kids to plant in the yard, and they must have scattered the seeds there. It's a beautiful flower, and it supposedly attracts hummingbirds, from what I have read. I've seen more in other people's gardens here and there, and I recently spotted a garden center selling them. I think they're annuals, so I really am not sure how much of a threat they could be.

"Upon examining our lease....it was discovered that I did not initial half of the places that required it on our lease. I also did not sign the very important section regarding DEFAULT BY RESIDENT. My roomate DID initial all of these places and did sign. The only portion my SIGNATURE is on....is the deal page where it talks about rent and deposit calculations. Is there any legal way for us to break this lease without having to pay?" NOPE! Contracts cover "reasonable interpretation", and minor omissions don't make up for your signing the big spots. I had a tenant try to weasel out of a lease: a typo made it for a negative one year (started in 1996 and ended in 1995) ... and they decided the lease was invalid a couple of months into the term and moved out. I sued them for the rent they owed, they said "the dates are wrong, the lease is invalid" and the judge said "Typos don't count, pay the nice landlord!". What you can do: whenever the music runs past 9 or 10PM, call the cops about a loud party. Whenever the upstairs kids are stomping and yelling, call the manager and ask him to shut them up.

In my current home and my first home when I moved to Texas were both overgrown, disheveled, weedy jungles. Needless to say I didn't feel to bad about going with the nuclear option on those yards and starting over. I think what's even more sad though is when your garden becomes neglected. That's what's happened with my first house here. I put my heart and soul into re-doing that yard for the better part of the three years I was there. I was by there a few months ago and it was hard to look at. Everything's overgrown and weeds popping up everywhere. I talked to some of my old neighbors and they said the front is nothing compared to the back. I guess some people just don't care. When it turns over again, those people will probably have to start from scratch just like I did. A real shame. :^(