Introducing "Japanese Knotweed". It is an insidiously invasive plant, the nemesis of nurseries and farmers, and right at the top of the list of "most invasive species" in the Northwest.
It is a plain bush with camel-colored stems.
However, right now with heavy frosts on the twigs, it has turned into
the lovely swan of plants:
Normally, in the winter, this Japanese Knotweed has bare tiny twiglets on bare twig-branches.
On the same street, here is a winter-bare tree with frost that looks like pussy-willows ...
... and a real pussy-willow tree, for some reason, without frost:
Dried ferns ala prickly frost:
3 comments:
Of course, I love the pussy willows! They look so happy against the blue sky. The frost certainly dressed those weeds up in wonderful finery.
Charming and beautiful. Not an ugly ducking right now! . . . But you always make everything look magical!
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