#wintercreeper

[pixel-alchemy]

Emerald 'n' Gold

[yardenercom]

Problems of Winter Creeper

Wintercreeper is a popular groundcover, but can develop issues like leaf spot, powdery mildew, scale insects, and aggressive spreading if not cared for properly. Get tips for siting, planting, pruning, watering, and fertilizing wintercreeper organically. Discover treatments for common wintercreeper problems. Our guide provides in-depth advice for growing healthy wintercreeper.

[greenwoodnursery1]

Groundcover with a Twist: Purple Wintercreeper

Transform your garden with the stunning foliage of Purple Wintercreeper. This evergreen vine, which is well-known for its seasonal color shift, is ideal for using as a climbing plant on trellises or for adding depth and texture to garden beds. It is a popular among gardeners looking for a dependable and ornamental plant because it is hardy and versatile, growing in both sun and shade with little maintenance needed.

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Hello, I was wondering if you had anything writing notes related to winter such as vocabulary, phrases, etc.

Word List: Winter

Winter—the season between autumn and spring comprising in the northern hemisphere usually the months of December, January, and February or as reckoned astronomically extending from the December solstice to the March equinox; the colder half of the year; a period of inactivity or decay

Dead of winter - the middle of the winter

Midwinter - the winter solstice; the middle of winter

Nuclear winter - the chilling of climate that is hypothesized to be a consequence of nuclear war and to result from the prolonged blockage of sunlight by high-altitude dust clouds produced by nuclear explosions

Outwinter - to stay outdoors in winter

Winterberry - an eastern North American shrub (Ilex verticillata) of the holly family with axillary flowers, usually bright red berries, and deciduous leaves that turn black in the fall; called also black alder

Winterbloom - witch hazel; azalea

Winterbound - restrained (as from a favored sport or other outdoor activity) by winter

Winterbourne - a stream that flows only or chiefly in winter

Wintercreeper - an evergreen shrubby, trailing, or climbing euonymus (Euonymus fortunei) that is widely cultivated as an ornamental in several horticultural varieties differing chiefly in habit or in form or color of leaves

Winterer - one that winters; specifically: a winter resident or visitor

Winterfeed - livestock feed for winter use

Wintergreen - any of a genus (Pyrola of the family Ericaceae, the heath family) of evergreen perennial herbs (such as the shinleafs) that have basal leaves and racemose flowers; any of a genus (Gaultheria) of evergreen plants of the heath family

Winter-hardy - hardy in respect to winter conditions; especially: able to withstand much cold

Winterim - an intersession at some colleges and universities chiefly in January

Winterish - suitable to winter; suggestive of winter; somewhat wintry

Winterize - to make ready for winter or winter use and especially resistant or proof against winter weather

Winter-kill - to kill (a plant or part of a plant) by exposure to winter conditions; to die as a result of exposure to winter conditions

Winterless - free from winter; not characterized by wintery conditions (as of weather)

Winterlong - excessively or tiresomely long

Winterpea - a peavine (Lathyrus hirsutus) with densely silky pods that is native to the Mediterranean region but introduced into the U.S. as a green manure or winter forage crop

Winter savory - a perennial European mint (Satureja montana) with leaves used for seasoning

Wintertide - wintertime

Winterward - in the direction of winter

Winterweed - weedy plant that remains green during winter

Wintry - of, relating to, or characteristic of winter

The concept of winter in European languages is associated with the season of dormancy, particularly in relation to crops; some plants die, leaving their seeds, and others merely cease growth until spring. Many animals also become dormant, especially those that hibernate; numerous insects die.

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Hope this helps with your writing!

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Today's adventure was exploring Engelmann Woods Natural Area near Gray Summit, MO, and managed by the Missouri Dept. of Conservation. While there is no more virgin growth in the state, there are a few patches of old growth forest that still have comparatively big, old trees and complex ecological structure. It's got great native biodiversity, and only occasional invasive species (I ripped up some strands of wintercreeper along the way.) And I think I may have seen and heard my first yellow-bellied sapsuckers!

[cyberphuck]

The other day the neighbors called the city on me again for having an overgrown lawn. I explained to City Guy that I was disabled and broke, and he gave me two weeks to "work on it" (I asked him, too, if there were programs to help me take care of the stuff they wanted me to take care of, and he said no). I traded a bag of dog food to a guy to mow my lawn, and he just... did not come back lol so today I went out with some very rusty loppers to try to cut back some of the bigger stuff.

We have a few milk thistles-- I tackled like three or four biggish ones-- but the majority of the overgrowth in the front yard is one massive creeper vine. There weren't any of what I as a Californian would call weeds besides the thistles-- not even dandelions. At least the creeper vine is green, doesn't have spines, doesn't harbor any kind of bugs, and is soft and moist enough not to be a fire hazard. (I'm not entirely sure what the creeper vine is. It's not virginia creeper, poison ivy, kudzu, wintercreeper, mile-a-minute, or honeysuckle. It's green, will grow up, through, and over anything and likes when you run it over repeatedly with your car, soft and cool with no stickers or hooks, and explodes with bitty white flowers in the mid to late fall. I like it.) I was out there sweating and shaking, taking frequent breaks because of my knees and back, doing my best to cut down the biggest growths. A car pulled up to the neighbor's house and the man himself got out. I straightened up, lowering the loppers, and stared fixedly at him (sweaty, sunburned, covered in leaves) as he walked into his house. He didn't even turn his head to make eye contact with me. A little while later, an older lady came out with a lawnmower and mowed their already-pristine lawn. I watched her. She also didn't look at me. Neither of them said anything like, "hey, noticed you doing yard work and crying, need a hand since the mower's already out?" To be clear, they have never spoken to me, even once, since they've moved in. Sometimes their mail gets delivered to my house by accident, and I'll walk it over and put it in their letterbox. A couple of times there were big manila envelopes that looked time-sensitive so I knocked, trying to make sure they got it and not wanting to bend it to fit it into the letterbox. TV was on but no one came to the door. I'm the one who ran across the street to help grandma out of the tub, remember, the one who buys lemonade and candy from the local kids, the one with a separate bowl for toys on Halloween, the one who chases down the neighbor's dog in the middle of the night and puts him back in the yard so nothing happens to him, the one who brings my dogs in when they start barking so they're not bothering people. I'm the one who brings a slice of birthday cake to share with the cranky old man across the street, who stopped to help a bleeding woman at walmart, who saw someone riding their bike on the side of the freeway (?!) and pulled over to put his bike in the back of my car and give him a ride home. I don't do that kind of stuff with an expectation of some kind of payment. And god knows I don't even like some of my neighbors-- I don't really like anybody, if it comes down to it. But we've all got to live on the same street, and I think it's important to be on at least nodding terms with your immediate neighbors in case something happens, you know? You don't have to bring over lemon squares every Sunday, but it'd be nice to have someone let you know if your house is on fire, or know that if there's an accident and you need help, you can bang on someone's door. Just come and talk to me about it once, okay? Once. Find out what's going on. Maybe there's a super simple fix. Maybe there's something we can trade. Maybe we find out you can't help at all. Maybe I'll tell you to shove it up your ass, but at least you tried before you got the fucking city involved.

Unfortunately for you, I'm not a 'turn the other cheek' sort of person. The cuttings from the insane, fast-growing, impossible to kill vine can go under your porch.

[stevishabitat]

I have invasive honeysuckle, english ivy, wintercreeper, and Japanese hops 😭😭😭

this redditor has the fucking battle royale of invasive plants (in the US) happening in their yard jesus christ. sentences of hate and destruction

[stevishabitat]

18 Fast-Growing Native Plants That Can Outcompete Weeds - Gardening

After pulling down the honeysuckle, I knew I needed to start getting some groundcover down to keep the soil healthy.

But honeysuckle, wintercreeper, and English ivy, all of which I still have an abundance, are notoriously hard to kill off, and will continue sprouting from the roots for quite awhile. They also produce chemicals that can prevent other seeds from germinating and keep other plants from establishing or spreading in their vicinity.

Rude. So rude. I hate these plants so much!

So how do I go about getting a healthy succession to less aggravating and more sustainable native plants?

This article was exactly the reference I needed to choose plants to try in those areas.

Between native perennials and filling in with warm and cool season cover crops, I'm hoping to take back my area from the bullies and improve the biodiversity and soil.

I've also noticed a few volunteer plants tentatively popping up, including heartleaf pepper vine, which is adorable!

So fingers crossed I can keep beating down the mean bully plants and get some good healthy natives taking their place and filling the biodiversity gaps for insects and wildlife.

[whatsbloomingnow]

Winter Creeper (Euonymus fortunei Turcz. Hand.-Maz.)

Celastraceae (Bittersweet Family) Synonym(s): Wintercreeper, Climbing Euonymus, Fortune’s Spindle Base Flower Color: Green, WhiteReproductive Phenology: May, JunBloom Notes: This plant can either be a liana (i.e., a woody plant with a vine-like growth form) or a shrub (i.e., a woody plant with several stems growing from the base). This is the shrub version. For more information about this…

[yoshilisk]

man. looking for a native groundcover to replace all the wintercreeper vines i’ve pulled up, but so many of them seem to be toxic to pets. and there’s absolutely no way i can trust pippin not to eat something

[stevishabitat]

👏 👏 👏

I'm in a similar situation. Overrun with invasive bush honeysuckle, wintercreeper, English ivy, and Japanese hops. I have to blitz those before I can even begin reintroducing native species.

Certainly there were times, and maybe there still are places, where simple neglect will allow a disrupted landscape to return to anything resembling a natural state. But here? On the east coast of the US, where we've been destroying habitat and employing high-control, extractive land management, and expanding urban and suburban areas, for four hundred years now, there is very little left of what was.

The chestnuts are gone. The canebrakes are gone. The wetlands remain only where they were least profitable to remove. The elm suffers, the grasslands are obliterated, the old growth is all logged long since.

I've got front row seats for some of what happens if you leave this land alone. The woods are choked by invasive multiflora rose and Japanese honeysuckle. I don't think I've ever seen a native honeysuckle in person. The fields, left to grow, grow nothing but non-native grasses, poison ivy that sets no berries and feeds no birds, invasive Tree of Heaven saplings that poison the soil with their root exudate, and the occasional hardy locust sapling. There are no flowers there, save a few ironweed and asters late in the year.

If I just leave it alone, those things will keep going, native plants long gone from this place will only appear by some miracle, and this landscape will continue to not support many of the plants, animals, and insects once native to this place. It needs my help. (It needs a lot more than just my help, but we'll see). I can't "return it to its natural state", because ecosystems do not have enduring natural states. But I can see that this land supports a far greater density and variety of native species, and I will do that.

[sleepl-ss]

Can you cut back Wintercreeper? Can you cut back Wintercreeper? Although not necessary, unless it

[elskanellis]

Power Lines

Ada Limón

Three guys in fluorescent vests are taking down a tree along my neighbor’s fence line, which is, of course, my fence line, with my two round-eyed snakes and my wandering raccoon. That is, if you go in for ownership. My, my, my. For weeks the tree they’re cutting grew tight with a neon pink band around its trunk. A marking, so you knew it was going to die. Must have been at least fifty years old, a nonfruiting mulberry with loads of wintercreeper crawling up the bark. Still it hung low by the power lines. Its fruitless limbs leaning over the wire like it didn’t care one bit about power. Just inching up toward the sun under the hackberry. The men are laughing between chain saw growls, the metal jaws of machinery. It is a sound that sounds like killing. I can barely listen, but then they are conversing in Spanish and it brings me a mercy to hear them make a joke about the heat, the lineup of jobs that day. Once my friend Mundo wanted palm fronds for his patio so he put on an orange shirt and climbed a towering palm right in the center of town. No one ever questions a Mexican in an orange shirt, he said, and we clinked glasses around his new tiki bar. My grandfather worked for Con Edison for years. I thought power was something you could control. Something one could do at a desk or on a job site, work in the field of power. Now the tree is gone. The men are gone, just a ground-down stump where what felt like wisdom once was.

[razan-ss]

Can you cut back Wintercreeper?

[laughing-thrush]

Feel in my bones just what the future has in store-

Visited a small local park today to find its surprisingly diverse native species farther choked out by invasives, and the bare earth of disk golf courses. This patch of trout lilies is one of the single largest I’ve seen. I pulled some small honeysuckles sprouting in it, but it’s days are numbered now the wintercreeper has arrived. Not sure I can bring myself to go back.

[el-hartiggi]

Eunymus fortunei (Wintercreeper, Fortune's spindle, Climbing spindle-tree, Climbing euonymus)