The trumpet vinage will eventually cover the huge trellis
What are you doing, Dave? You've got a great big trellis and just that little shoot of a vine at its vast base to justify it?
The late Lawnist, Joe, thought is was another hare-brained idea of ours. Ever a pruner and a tuner, Joe once gathered the gumption to ask if he could trim the bridal veil shrub at the base of our driveway that parallels his. It was blocking his view when he came to the end of his slenderer driveway.
Sure, we said! Go ahead and take it out entirely, we joked. But that was what he had the landscaper do, we observed after it was too late. We heard a tree-chipping machine like out of FARGO out there, grinding up the last of the quickly-leveled bush branches. Well, we "said;" we 'joked;" we "saw!"
Two years later, the trumpet vine shows signs of covering the trellis, and the bridal veil bush, (foreground) is almost back where it was.
Joe, bless him, is dead. There used to be a weekly newsreel clip at the old Bucket of Blood theater (no TV news in those days) that started out with a fanfare and a very deep voice declaring:
Time marches on!
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