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Vines at Chickadee Gardens

 Gardening in my head sounds a little like this: "Ooh, that vine looks sparkly right now. Trachelospermum jasminoides 'Variegata' - how many of these do I have? One, no - three? Oh, that's a lovely evergreen vine that goes with everything. I need six more. Must take cuttings. But when? Oh, yes, my original thought: how many evergreen vines do I have? Let me think, four, maybe five? (pull up spread sheet on my phone to discover twelve). Oooh, including deciduous vines, I wonder how many I have? Maybe I should count them. Yes, definitely a thing to do right now ." Then I proceed to search around the garden, over and over (it helps with my 10,000 steps a day goal) to count, inevitably missing one or four. I'm often astonished as to how many of any one group of plants I actually have, hence, the spreadsheet. In any event, that's how I come to this week's post, an inventory of vines in the garden. Plus I love to count things. Vines are cool - they don't...

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