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Scratch that Itch! Poison Ivy in Cary, NC. More than you wanted to know!
I was over at Fred G. Bond Park, Cary, North Carolina, tonight checking out the evening view and came across a bumper crop of poison ivy.  Oh, how much easier life has become since I learned to identify poison ivy before I stomp through a knee high patch.  We have wonderful conditions for the culture of poison in Wake County.
I just had to snap a few photos, in absolute altruistic service to humanity.  Of course, the stuff morphs into several different formations, vines, bushes, sprawling plants.  So it doesn't all look like the photos.  We try...
This year I killed, I hope, a monster vine in a pine tree in my own back yard.  It goes 40 feet up into the tree.  I whacked the 1" thick stem with an axe, and cut out a 6" section.  And then dumped a good portion of herbicide onto the raw stem.  That 40 foot vine is now a withered brown mass of dried leaves, a mere shadow of its former glossy verdant pestilence.  At least it is this year.  Let's see what 2008 brings.  I'm still afraid of that dead vine!  You wouldn't understand unless you missed three days of work with a really nasty weepy rash.  ... more

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