Something strange is growing in our backyard. Now, you have to understand our backyard is a mess. Because of reroofing the house and garage, things are scattered all over. Also, for awhile, we had a garbage hole out there so all kinds of food things (with seeds sometimes) got buried in this hole. A few months ago a squash type plant started to grow. It is growing at an amazing rate and the leaves are huge. Large yellow/orange flowers would open for a day, then close and then drop off. Think of the stage play/movie Little Shop of Horrors. That is what I would think of whenever I looked at this plant.

This plant reached the tree in the middle of the yard and started to climb up it. We let it go up to see what would happen. We did help it go along a low branch. One day a female flower opened on the branch. At the same time two male flowers opened. So I helped nature along and took the two male flowers and introduced them to the female flower. As an aside we are noticing very few bees around. This is sad. It has something to do with something wiping them out. Anyway, back to the plant. Yesterday I went out and was shocked to see that a squash of some kind is actually growing! And it is settling on the branch. If it gets too big and heavy we may have to carefully lower the whole thing off the branch and onto the ground. I will try and to get a picture of this and put it up (NO! Not try to put up a picture (runs screaming from the room!).