When it comes to that fucking honeysuckle, there’s always more! If you have ever planted Asian bush honeysuckle or Japanese honeysuckle, then FUCK YOU! Fuck you with a big, thorny stick.

I knew it was going to be 90F today, but it’s supposed to rain tomorrow and Sunday, so I had little choice. I started at about 0730h, determined to get the honeysuckle around the birbs’ elderberry (they planted it, so it’s theirs). There wasn’t that much of it, but it was rough going with osage-orange thorns, and took me 5h. So, I have spent 18h so far, eradicating that godforsaken menace. FUCK non-native honeysuckle.

In the process of disentangling honeysuckle from elderberry, I accidentally cut some new growth, and broke two older branches. Again, fuck non-native honeysuckle. One was too damaged to save, but I gave the other one a shot with a Tanglefoot Band-aid. Maybe it’ll live, maybe not, but it was worth trying.

Three of these motherfuckers grew together. Like I didn’t have enough that are bitches to cut already.

I didn’t take a before picture because I’d initially just gone down there to pull some Japanese honeysuckle, but it was well and truly taking over and would soon have choked out even enthusiastic elderberry. This is the aftermath of my honeysuckle rage. I pulled or dug what I could, and cut/poisoned the bigger ones. Drink up, you sonsabitches; have a nice triclopir cocktail!

The stems of the elderberry look good, and now the plants can spread all they want, and will get more light. Fuck Asian honeysuckle.