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Posted: Apr/22/2008 5:04 AM PST
Good morning Witt! About the honeysuckle, it actually needs very little support. We have tied it up a couple of times, but other than that it is just massing very full. It is pretty much maintenance free. Good luck if you decide to get yourself one! |
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Posted: Apr/22/2008 9:03 AM PST
Felicia your lonicera honeysuckle is just gorgeous!! Keep on sending pictures! Carol |
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Posted: Apr/22/2008 9:05 AM PST
Hi SmittB, Yeah my Sarcostemma is something of a hard vine to find, I haven't given up but it sure does make my searching hard work!! Take pictures of your Clematis okay I want to see it!!! Carol |
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Posted: Apr/22/2008 5:34 PM PST
Dizzy, I definitely will. It's a pretty small plant right now though...do they grow quickly? |
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Posted: Apr/23/2008 9:14 AM PST
So what do you grow as Perennial or fun vines down your way? Up here in Indiana, I cheat and container grow and overwinter vines as well.. Right now I am growing Clitoria ternatea's, and some mystery vines I just love those never know what you got. I will be growing Tecomanthe as soon as it gets here from New Zealand. I have Morning glories all kinds, Sweet Peas vines, Hyacinth Bean vines, and thats just the start..Still looking for my Climbing milkweeds. Carol |
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Posted: Apr/23/2008 5:11 PM PST
Are Hyacinth bean vines related to the hyacinths that come up around the same time as daffodils?? OH! I just saw some bell shaped clematis at one of the local greenhouses! I really want them, but I'm not sure if I should get them.. |
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Posted: Apr/24/2008 7:53 AM PST
Hi Smitt, No although the name is the same they are a completely different plant families the Hyacinth bean is a legume some spell it with an e at the end some don't. These are vines. Usually a annual. Don't have my book with me right now for the Hyacinth that grows in the ground and is usually a perennial but they are different.. both are fragrant. Carol |
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Posted: Apr/27/2008 6:34 PM PST
I love vines, and am just starting out with them. I have had wisteria fecunda (native wisteria) for 6 years now (I'll get pics tomorrow, they are in bloom). I also grow bottle gourds- they climb, have pretty white flowers in the evening, and get cool gourds you can use to make birdhouses and such. This year I am planting some Sweet Pea (Purple Passion) and Painted Lady Improved (Phaseolus Vulgaris) onto a chain link fence. I love the trumpet honeysuckle. It's a native plant. I want to try to kill the Japanese stuff we have growing and replace it with that (except my local nursery wants $40/plant, and I have 50 feet of fence!!!!) |
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Posted: Apr/29/2008 11:51 AM PST
Well so glad you joined us here and am into vines too! I know the price on things is so $$$ out there thats why years ago I got into growing my own and love it. I have alot of successes and alot of failures depending on seed freshness and growing requirements.. But I have to say I do okay. Make sure you send in lots of pictures of successes okay!!! What kind of Sweet Pea's did you plant this year? Carol |
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Posted: Apr/29/2008 12:15 PM PST
I think the sweet pea is "Purple Passion" It's coming up in the kids garden, and I just planted more along a chainlink fence and a wood picket fence. I also planted the climbing bean along the chain link fence (a little further down) and to grow up the trellises on the side of my shed (same with the sweet pea)It's also in the kids garden and seems to be growing well. I'll definitely take pics as they grow and bloom! I really look forward to more pics of your vines 
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