Just when the hops vine was looking so lush and the "cones" were starting to form, I had to tear this all down yesterday. It was covered in white flies, which leave a honeydew all over the leaves, which in turn attracts wasps and yellow jackets. It was covered with them and they were flying all around the front door. It was getting treacherous just to go in and out of the house. E was stung 6 times in a one week period (only once at home). So, yesterday morning while it was still cool and the bees weren't very active, the vine came down. There is another one on the opposite side of the house trained to grow over the windows to keep the afternoon sun from the West from overheating the house. The deer have eaten almost all the leaves off of that one in the past week.
Oh well. Fall is on it's way. They closed down the top part of the Going-to-the-Sun road in Glacier Park yesterday due to snow.
