Texas Gardening: Edible landscaping, 1 by charlenesplants

charlenesplants wrote:
Dennis,

I really appreciated the coral honeysuckle you sent by Josephine due to my missing the Arlington RU.

I would love to bring you something. I have lots of maypops. If you are truly wanting to grow something that you would enjoy eating, I don't think you would be happy with it.

For the benefit of a view from the neighbor's dining room, it would make a beautiful sight. Train them on a fence or put a trellis for them. They are not picky about soil, sun or water. Mine bloom like crazy all season long starting late spring to early summer.

It spreads by rhizomes and is easy enough to control. They make great trades or you can just mow the pop-ups down.

It will grow up to thirty feet in a season. It dies back during the winter. The flowers smell wonderful and are beautiful to look at. The fruit is a sort of jelly that encapsulates the seeds. It is the type of thing that you put in your mouth, and sort of suck the fruit off of the seeds and then dispose of the seeds (spit'em out).

I really don't care enough for the taste to go to the trouble of doing all the work to get the fruit eaten.