Author, D. Denise Dianaty
2 min readJun 14, 2023

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Gorgeous pictures. We see some clematis here in North Carolina. There aren't any in our yard, though. What we see in most yards is hydrangeas. North Carolinians love our hydrangeas and roses, and hyacinths and jasmine, honeysuckle and lilacs, azaleas and hibiscus, and wisteria. Sunflowers are a money crop here, so you see a lot of them too.

As a little girl, I used to see fields of wild daisies around here. I see the cultivated daisies, like Black-eyed Susans and African Daisies, these days. Wild daisies are probably poisoned as weeds.

I don't see any wisteria or lilacs in your garden. We had lilacs in Missouri; they completely overtook an ten footish tall shrub, and kept trying to climb up the house next to the garage. In the back, we had wild climbing roses that took over a corner of our yard about 20 feet along our fence and the tree back there, plus flooded over the neighbor's privacy fence into their yard.

My Gran had a red climbing roses along her fence on one side of her yard. It grew about 50 years along her chainlink fence in that corner. It also grew up one of the tall trees just over the fence. People would come to her house and see that tree full of rose blooms and want to know what kind of tree it was.

On the other side of her yard, as with the back of my current yard, she had honeysuckle vines. We used to pick the blooms as kids. We'd suck the sweet nectar out of the bottoms of the flutes.

Jasmine vines are another lovely flowering vine. They can be grown as far north as zone six. We had some in Missouri. They grew okay, but never as hardy and prolific as the lilacs and roses. Jasmine grows wild in the woods behind our house. I've not seen them. But, I smell them every year. It's lovely.

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Author, D. Denise Dianaty
Author, D. Denise Dianaty

Written by Author, D. Denise Dianaty

Artist, Poet, author, wife & mom May my epitaph be "She reflected love into the world."

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