Vine time

On one of the walls off the back porch was a very large overgrown vine, a climbing hydrangea. It was beautiful but had totally gotten out of hand. It was crawling into the gutter above and I was worried it would do damage to the exterior stonework. When the technicians came to do the pest exclusion they offered to help me cut it back a lot in order to make sure there were no problems with the stone OR openings where pests could possibly be gettin in. They suggested keeping the vine (I wanted to get rid of it altogether), and that if it were kept in check, flat against the stone, it would looke much better. So that's what we did. In the Spring it should start to fill out nicely. Hopefully this 'haircut' will make it flourish. BEFORE:

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