Xylem & Phloem

"Where are the gourds?"

This is what i was asking myself a few weeks ago when my birdhouse gourd vines had already covered a fence and were winding their way up a tree.

I looked low. I looked high. But apparently I didn't look high enough!

My birdhouse gourd vines (my latest obsession) have vigorously climbed up my crape myrtle and are now producing gourd after gourd more than twenty feet in the air! I still haven't figured out how I'm going to get them down once they start drying out, but for now it's fun to watch my high-flying gourds swingin' from the trees!

More pics after the jump.