I give up
@allknowing (130064)
India
August 8, 2021 5:12am CST
I had talked about the garlic vine that devoured our guava tree and that prompted us to uproot the vine and plant some cuttings at a place where it would not do such a thing again
This monsoon the vine has come up and covered yet another tree and has started giving out flowers. We have attempted several times to trim the vine down whenever it showed up but it just stuck to its decision to stay put and now it has covered the noni tree. Fortunately we have several noni trees in the garden and we can risk losing this one.
The flowers are beautiful
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@mildredtabitha (16047)
• Nairobi, Kenya
8 Aug 21
I agree. Beautiful indeed. Let the vine be.
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@mildredtabitha (16047)
• Nairobi, Kenya
8 Aug 21
@allknowing you mean dilema. I hope you find a permanent solution soon
@Koningjoy (181)
• Imphal, India
8 Aug 21
It might not kill the Noni tree. Wait for the garlic vine flower to wither and decide to transplant it. Just suggesting.
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@allknowing (130064)
• India
8 Aug 21
We have already planted a few cuttings elsewhere but this vine just keeps coming up. It killed our guava tree.
@Koningjoy (181)
• Imphal, India
8 Aug 21
@allknowing one has to be surrendered to be sacrificed.
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@GardenGerty (157622)
• United States
8 Aug 21
I have never heard of a garlic vine. We get a trumpet vine that will eat the entire yard and garden.
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@allknowing (130064)
• India
8 Aug 21
I have that trumpet vine that does the same but it is in another part of our garden. I have a video link posted here. You can have a look at it if you want to know what this vine is all about
A pleasant surprise awaited me this morning when our curry leaf tree got engulfed by these wonderful flowers.
@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
8 Aug 21
That's nature, it's up to us humans if we allow it to take it's course or to intervene.
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@allknowing (130064)
• India
8 Aug 21
You have a point there but it killed our yielding guava tree and now it has fully covered the noni tree. But I have noni trees elsewhere and so I may leave it there.
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@RebeccasFarm (86774)
• United States
8 Aug 21
The flowers are lovely better luck with it
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@arunima25 (85442)
• Bangalore, India
8 Aug 21
Those are beautiful flowers.
And if they choose to stay, you have to let them stay
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@allknowing (130064)
• India
8 Aug 21
They are invaders and I am afraid they might devour our curry leaf trees which are next in line
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@arunima25 (85442)
• Bangalore, India
12 Aug 21
@allknowing You have to keep a close watch on them. Maybe trimming them from time to time will save the other trees around. But that would be a tedious task especially if they grow fast.
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@allknowing (130064)
• India
13 Aug 21
@arunima25 We have a huge garden and sometimes it is not possible to cover the whole garden
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@allknowing (130064)
• India
8 Aug 21
I will have to sacrifice one for the other sadly if I retain that vine there
@allknowing (130064)
• India
8 Aug 21
That is different from this vine. This is a creeper while the garlic you are referring to grows as tuber under ground.
@allknowing (130064)
• India
8 Aug 21
You can see it here We cut it down.
A pleasant surprise awaited me this morning when our curry leaf tree got engulfed by these wonderful flowers.
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