Virginia creeper

There are so many things to love about September.

I look out my window to see my feeders crowded with blue jays, the back of my yard hopping with a variety of sparrows, a couple of American redstarts flitting about, flaring yellow or orange tail and wing markings, a brown creeper spiraling up my box elder trunk, adorable kinglets flicking their wings as they catch tiny insects in the foliage, robins, a Swainson's thrush, cedar waxwings, and other fruit eaters in Dogwood, Virginia Creeper, and Mountain Ash.

On September 18, 1989, I had a lovely visit with a Townsend Solitaire in my Mountain Ash.

Even rarer birds show up in September.

That is Virginia.

It is a Virginia creeper.

That's the name of the vine.

And the vine itself isn't hurting the pine tree.

But pines are pretty tall, and I don't think it's going to be a threat.

But again, just to reiterate, if it was going to be a threat, it would be because of it shading out the top.

But Virginia creeper is not poison ivy.

It's not a vine that's going to hurt you or anything like that.

It's foggy in the morning, cool in the morning and warm in the afternoon.

Have you seen the Virginia Creeper recently? So if you go to a swampy area or a riverside, the Virginia Creeper is bright red right now.

It's gorgeous.

Oh, it's that.

Yeah, well, it could be maybe a tourist from Virginia up to see the leaves.

Yeah, a vine.

Talking about the vine, Virginia Creeper.

Coming to a theater near you, Halloween, Virginia creeper.

Gotta do a little bit of maintenance, pretty easy, but you know, every couple of weeks go out and just rake or spray or do something.

What's really growing right now the vines fast growing vines i wanted to cover a bit on the fastest growing of all the vines you'll find in the backyards of let's see this part of arizona and and we have to have to have to start with doesn't have to be growing up it can also grow over some of these vines the native one virginia creeper It grows wild up in the Bradshaws, the Mingus Mountains.

You'll just see it growing out there underneath the pine trees and the oaks.

No animals eat it.

It's spectacular.

I mean, oh, my goodness.

Whoa, what is that? A Virginia creeper.

Grows native right here.

Many are not palatable until they have frozen and thawed many times.

Examples are glossy black chokecherry, Siberian and red splendor crabapple, Snowberry, Bittersweet, Sumacs, American Highbush Cranberry, Eastern and European Wahoo, Virginia Creeper, and Chinaberry.

Nut and Acorn Plants These include Oaks, Hickories, Buckeyes, Chestnuts, Butternuts, Walnuts, and Hazels.

A variety of birds, such as jays, woodpeckers, and titmice, eat the meats of broken nuts and acorns.

I slept in the little room on the second floor off the hall.

It was an easy thing to climb out the window and down by the Virginia Creeper to the front garden.

I went around to our place of meeting, and there they all were.

The wind had sprung up pretty brisk, and there was a thin coating of ice over the mud, but that was all the better for the gates we wanted to bury.

It was stunning, just stunning.

Virginia Creeper.

That's another vine that's very much in the wild.

That's a native plant for here.

It can also grow over.

Some of these vines, the native one, Virginia creeper.

It's, uh, it's grows wild up in the Bradshaws, the, the Mingus Mountains.

You'll just see it growing out there underneath the pine trees and the oaks.

It's spectacular.

I mean, oh my goodness.

Whoa, what is that? A Virginia creeper.

Grows native right here.