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

konkreteblond wrote:
So, after running back and forth to each yard I finally got the fence to stop moving and needed to get the lattice and vine off the fence so it wouldn't weight that end down.

I then got the ladder and tried to hang on while standing on the very top and trying to unscrew the lattice from the fence. I was hoping, of course, to try and not have to cut the vine. I thought maybe if I could get the lattice down and just let the vine hang I could save it.

So I dug thru the vine and held the lattice up with one hand and unscrewed about 7 screws hoping that no spiders would attack me!! I couldn't get the lattice down tho because something was caught so I had no choice but to cut the vine. I just cut it across the top of the lattice tho in hopes that a big portion of it could survive. I know it's late in the season and it will die soon anyways, but I have cats inside now and was afraid there were more on the vine. (and I want more Variegated Frits!)