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Article: The vine that kept growing and growing....(FEATURES)(LIVING)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- April 21, 2004
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Byline: Lucy Sankey Russell Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
A couple of springs ago I came across some seeds of the cypress vine (Ipomoea quamoclit), which was described on the packet as a delicate vine with bright red flowers.
That sounded nice enough, but there was more: Thomas Jefferson had sent cypress vine seeds to his daughters.
I am a sucker for this kind of historical claim, so I sowed the seeds at the base of our deck behind some newly planted perennials, envisioning a graceful adornment for the deck's plain wooden railing.
The shoots of the cypress vine emerged like little pairs of wings. They seemed fragile and ...