I'm imagining being there and just taking in the feeling of a lovely open place.

The main road is up a long-ish driveway, so very much total privacy.
A hundred shades of green in the spring, and wild wisteria blooming all over the trees.

to only eat on one side of the house. Keeps the crumbs under control.



Oh, nice pic, too!

we don't mind.....

we all need peacefulness from time-to-time...

there are little towns all over the state that are very very quiet and peaceful.

We live at the edge of such a wee town. Trees ad birds and foxes and even an occasional deer in the yard.

Catkins in the spring, green all summer, nice fall color, and tiny black seeds/berries in fall for the birds.

We have a larger one in front of the larger deck in back of the house, it lets winter sun in and shades summer sun nicely.
In fact, it now keeps the back deck in light shade all summer, which really cuts down the A/C since that is the sun room side of the house.
Nice tree to have.

It is a tree. The trunk bark even looks like cherry.
We have wisteria growing all over the place here, which is a climbing vine. The wisteria blooms are much thicker and much longer than the catkins on the trees.

In fact, that little thin vine to the right, on the deck post, is wisteria, which now has leafed out.

and definately not a tree. It has flowers that look a whole lot like those in your photos but are mine are a light purple color. Those in your photos are quite lovely btw.

Then moved here and found it is so abundant, it is a nuisance.
The back of our house is mostly dense woods, the wisteria dangles in full bloom in the trees at this time.
I had to have a lot of the vines removed from places where we don't want it.

Most gardening here in the semi-tropical South is about beating the jungle like plants into submission.
Actual GROWING is not the problem.

I am about 40 miles west of Mt. Rainier. It gets wet here but we are not a jungle that's for sure. My sister owns this property and when she lived here she planted tons of oddities. There is a 2 story A-frame tool shed that has become all but encased in that purple Wisteria plant. It actually looks beautiful when it flowers out but right now it is a barren pile of vines.

I suspect if given the chance, this particular Wisteria would get loose and become a similar nuisance throughout the neighborhood. (My sister wouldn't care, she uprooted herself to Wisconsin 5 years ago). Now that I know about the plant's gregarious ways I will keep it cut back. Thanks for the tip.

They can be difficult to see in the undergrowth.
In warm weather they can grow very fast.

Ps: I was born and raised in Washington state, moved south about 30 years ago.

over here in Clarke county. He was so happy when he got it to take finally.

Twenty five years later, I spent two weeks digging the crap up with a front end loader and pulling as much as I could up and burning and poisoning what I couldn't. It still came back everywhere the next year. Sometimes we lose the fight to keep it beaten into submission.

If so, we are neighbors......I am in Monroeville.

When we first got this house in the woods, in 2005, there was not much wisteria growing.
I think what happened was Ivan blew down so many of the supporting trees in 2004.
Last couple years, LOTS of the stuff, and we were busy taking it out around the house.
That and the kudzu.

I love roses.
Have grown them on the West Coast for years.
The ones I planted here and took such good care of, died.
the ones I stuck in the ground and neglected, are thriving.

Southern gardening has its own peculiarities, like everything else here.

Rick Bragg said something I so agree with:
" to be born a Southerner, or to be planted here by fate, is to live Southern, to FEEL....something special, even in the quiet, something fine in itself".

just before you get to Whatley, so we're right down the road from one another. At least for a couple more days, when I get shipped back off to the Marshall Islands for a few more months.

I never had much luck with roses. Except wild ones, which my mom took cuttings off of from the side of the road and I fertilized like crazy before realizing my mistake and spending ages trying to get rid of them. Everything here either dies horribly after a ton of effort, or goes full Little Shop of Horrors the second the roots hit the ground.

For all everyone here hates kudzu, I've found it easier to deal with than most things. Especially since it's pretty much all edible, for both us and animals. You can follow it back down the vine to where it comes out of the ground, grab a shovel, and dig the (usually huge) edible root ball up, which also kills the plants off. I tried eating the leaves a few times, but for all everyone says they're like spinach, they're a lot softer and kind of slimy. I also tried seasoning them and frying them thinking they'd be like a green potato chip. That wasn't one of my smarter ideas. Our chickens loved eating the leaves and we had so many I eventually wiped out our kudzu feeding it to hens. Now they get mustard and tender greens.

Thank heavens neither of us have thorny pigweed yet. Pigweed is the stuff of nightmares, and they've got it bad over in Wilcox. I've honestly never seen or heard of anything as bad as that stuff. Once it takes over a field, you pretty much write it off and find a new field. We abandoned ten acres of sugar cane in Camden because it got infested with it. Just wrote it off and started new fields in Sweetwater.

We're gonna keep this this corner of paradise a secret, yes?

and the beauty of blooming trees and plants is lost on me.

I found some wild wisteria growing on the edge of my woods. Unfortunately right by my pastures, so I had to take them out. Lethal to horses. Figures I never see any growing up by my house.