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If you want to grow something that is crazily robust and indestructible and will make you feel like a mighty green-thumbed warrior, plant some cilantro.  It's pretty much impossible to prevent it from flourishing.

But do it in a pot, otherwise your entire yard will become cilantro.

This is one herb the wife cannot grow, at all, it dies in weeks.  I don't know why.

She does have a nice kudzu crop though.

She grows every other major herb, but cilantro dies on her every time.

We have a bay leaf/laurel plant about 3 feet high.  Mint she can grow of course, that stuff gets evil.

She has a large fig tree now, meaning like 5 foot.  She's getting figs now, and she grows Mayer lemons.

Don't tell her.  Please.  We have enough now.

They actually will ask directions too, it's the darndest thing.

The deep freeze took out my rosemary bush. That was fine with me, because it was impeding access to the mailbox, and I'm not gonna eat that much turkey ever (all I really use it for).

The deep freeze took out my rosemary bush. That was fine with me, because it was impeding access to the mailbox, and I'm not gonna eat that much turkey ever (all I really use it for).

It took out our star jasmine, sort of.  It's still alive, but ugly as hell and likely to stay that way for a long time.  It makes the driveway area of our front yard look like a haunted house.  Didn't get our nice blooms this year that smell kind of like honeysuckle.  I'm thinking of just digging them up and re-planting.  They got a little out of control beyond the trellis they climb anyway.  

Judging by my admittedly brief couple of years living in GA, kudzu is an inevitability, not a planned goal. 

I haven't been to Macon in years but I doubt it's there anymore.  I expect the kudzu took that city over years ago. 

We spent the night recently in a B&B in Macon, I had never been downtown.  It's missable.  The Indian mounds are pretty neat.  That is near perfect kudzu weather.

You can watch the stuff grow on a hot day in about 15 minutes see the tendrils move and the plant extend.