I recently did a post about the retention pond behind our house. Here is the link to read the first post with photos of before it was cleared.

In this post I want to share the after photos along with a before photo so you can appreciate the difference. I am not completely happy with it. But I guess this is all they are going to do. They did neglect to clear the fence completely of the invasive bittersweet vine. It will come back next year with a vengeance and mostly likely begin this year with new sprouts. Sigh! I hate this stuff. It takes over all plants, trees, bushes and chokes the life out of them as it spreads and grips onto them. So sad.

Here the men are clearing out the nasty vines and other shrubs that have taken over the pond. What a job! At least this time they learned their lesson not to go directly into the middle of the pond. See other post link above for those photos.

They went in and around the wet area to the sides that are high and dry. These three photos below show the tractor working along the insides of the pond while two other men are tackling the vicious vines from outside the fence. It took all day to complete this task. I was hoping they would come back to finish the other sides of the fence. No sign of them back there though.

Here is a before photo all lush and green with the invasive bittersweet vine.

Here is a photo after it was cleared (almost). They neglected to clear all of the bittersweet vines on all sides of the fence.

Well, until another year we are cleared. Now if we could only get them to work on the vines that are taking over our trees on the side of the house.

My husband and I worked on those vines from below in June. But we couldn’t reach the higher vines that are covering the trees. We have a lot of white spruce there that don’t stand a chance with all the vines covering them. Sigh! It makes me want to cry in frustration.

If you want to know more about bittersweet vines, here is a link.

I hope wherever you live you don’t have any of this vine lurking around your yard. Beware of it and don’t spread it. With its lovely yellow/orange berries birds are likely eating them and helping to spread the seeds. Yikes! It sounds like a horror movie isn’t he making – the Invasion of the Vines!

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