peas

[ryanlion]

I wish I knew what kind of pea has been growing all over the yard. I can pull it out by the fistfulls, and it comes back climbing all over everything. It's not ugly, it's got little purple flowers, but it chokes everything

Comments

[eclypse]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_pea
The little @#%#@% are almostimpossible to get rid of. Keep pulling.

[vorona]

As far as I know, it's wild sweet peas. I love those things. I keep thinking it would be cool to plant some of the more cultivated strains NEAR the wild ones in wild places... the overpass sort of place coming from SCCA along Eastlake, for example... and see if these guys will hybridize. Unless Monsanto or some similar supercreep has tinkered with the store-bought seeds so much that the plants won't reproduce naturally, there could be some awfully interesting developments. Wild BLUE sweet peas. Wild DEEP CRIMSON sweet peas. I'd like to see more of that sort of thing... fancy hybrids going wild. As long as they don't kill butterflies and bees, or any Monsantoesque nastiness

[ryanlion]

They're choking plants I really want to keep, yes.
Some of the plants they like to crawl all over are native plants I'm trying to encourage to thrive. Things like the native strawberry plant that is also a vine that crawls along the ground, but not as quickly or as densely.

Some of the others are bushes I planted to hide the chain link fence that goes around our back yard, the bushes are a member of the rose family and if they don't get enough air movment over their leaves to dry out or get enough sun they get black spot. Those bushes probably weren't the best pick as I think the climate here is marginal for them, but I love that their new leaves are bright red.

I was concerned that the peas might be considered a noxious weed, but if they're not, if they're native, I'll think of a spot to let them grow unmolested. Like I said, I think they're pretty, and they smell nice, they just take over.