It runs all the way down, flanking both sides. I pretend it’s a moat for protection. So lush in some places it’s difficult to not touch with your car as you drive along.
In Austin, they hired a team of goats to clear out the poison ivy in the park. Evidently they love to eat it.
Did you perhaps intend to post this to Seriously Horrifying? I’d be scurrying down the center of the street, holding my breath for fear of inhaling the plant oils. Yikes.
1 gallon of vinegar mixed with a cup of salt and a tablespoon of dish soap. Spray the hell out of all those.
A year ago a bird dropped some poison ivy into my suburban yard. I had no idea what it was, so I bare hand pulled it all up. I ended up at the doctors with it all over my face and body. Amazing all the places you touch on yourself. Luckily none in my eyes or on my sensitive regions… But I now know what poison ivy looks like!
My dumb ass wouldn’t have known that was poison ivy and would definitely have brushed up against it. You wouldn’t think poison ivy would be so close and abundant next to a road.
“Leaves of three, let them be.” But I’m much more used to seeing poison oak than ivy, so my stupid ass stands a chance as well. The worst in my opinion is poison sumac, because I’d never seen it in my life before moving 5 whole hours north and it looked to me like a regular old fern-like plant.
It was not. What it was was all over my whole face.
That sucks. Usually poison sumac only grows in very wet areas. I had a dendrology professor who said (paraphrasing) “you’ll know if it’s poison sumac if your feet are wet”. Biology never follows rules though, so who knows.
Some how it seems more ‘oddly terrifying’ than ‘mildy interesting’ to me lol
