Beautiful Monsters

  “Ampelopsis” sounds like something out of a children’s book.  I can imagine a large, lumpy monster—possibly friendly, but definitely massive.  Ampelopsis brevipedunculata is a monster, but not of the animal kind.  Better known as porcelain berry or Amur peppervine, it is a non-native vine that grows rapidly, spreads like wildfire and dominates everything in … Read more