52 Weeks In A Ventura County Garden: Wild Cucumber

Friday, February 5, 2010

Wild Cucumber

Echinocystis Lobata

Wild Cucumber

See the spiny fruit in the upper lefthand corner?

This invasive vine grows all over a tree in a neighbors yard. She's not fond of it since when the fruit dries and falls, it is rather unpleasant to step on. I searched the web to identify this vine and finally I found this wonderful article all about wild cucumber - pictures galore. Enjoy.

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Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. -Douglas William Jerrold, playwright and humorist (1803-1857)

Every day I walk out into the world / to be dazzled, then to be reflective. Mary Oliver, Poet (b. 1935)

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. -Michael Pollan, author, journalism professor (b. 1955)

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. -Hal Borland, journalist (1900-1978)

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another. -John Muir, Naturalist and explorer (1838-1914)

If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe the man would only have 4 years of life left.
NO MORE BEES
NO MORE POLLINATION
NO MORE PLANTSNO MORE ANIMALS
NO MORE MAN."
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Self-sown my stately garden grows;
The winds and windblown seed,
Cold April rain and colder snows
My hedges plant and feed.
From mountains far and valleys near
The harvest brought to-day
Thrives in all weathers without fear,—
Wild planters, plant away!
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Natura enim non imperatur, nisi parendo."-- Sir Francis Bacon
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"Like snow, dandelions enchant children but dismay adults." Barbara Pond

"Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking." -Wangari Muta Maathai, activist and Nobel laureate (b. 1940)

"A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects."
Edna Ferber

"My hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs....In smoothing the rough hillocks, I soothe my temper."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The cure for this ill is not to sit still or frowst with a book by the fire; But to take a large hoe and a shovel also, and dig till you gently perspire."
Rudyard Kipling

"The Norwegians have a pretty and significant word, 'Opelske,' that they use in speaking of the lure of flowers. It means literally 'loving up,' or cherishing them into healthy vigor."
Celia Thaxter

"I'll trace this garden oer & oer. Meditate on each sweet flower, thinking of each happy hour."
Walt Whitman

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
Henry David Thoreau

"What is a weed? A weed is a plant whose virtues have no yet been discovered."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

"The garden is the poor man's apothecary." ~German Proverb
"I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too-well-tended lawn."
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52 Weeks In A Ventura County Garden

Friday, February 5, 2010

Wild Cucumber

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