Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: An early end to most of my passion vine, 1 by konkreteblond

konkreteblond wrote:
This is a little off-topic but I had to cry to people who would understand. We had some really strong wind here today and as usual I looked out to make sure my lattice, and passionvine, on top of my fence was still there. No problem this morning, but when I looked again at 4pm the fence was about to fall down!

It wasn't because of the lattice tho because if the wind comes from that direction it will just either bend it forward or it will start coming off. This was in a section where there was no lattice and every time the wind blew it caved in like a big V, towards me! I'm not big and don't weigh much and when a gust came it took all my strength to hold the pole and keep it from blowing over.

The post had come out of the ground and the fence had started moving in towards my yard! My first thought was it was going to fall on my plants! But then I realized that wasn't the big problem. If that one panel fell it would pull down several others and I started seeing $$ instead. It also might have landed on my tree.

This is a view of how the fence moved from the neighbor's yard.