Misty, I have Podranea ricansoliana vine for your Vigna caracalla aka snail vine. Email me.

Would love vigna caracalla seeds. I have mixed hot ornamental peppers, pink flamingo celosia or dolichos lab-lab for trade. Thanks, Suzanne

By board fence, do you mean a solid board fence or rails? I've not had experience planting vines against solid board fences. The Cup and Saucer vine I always planted so that it would climb up to the porch rails and twine around and the length of them. I plant two - three vine plants in the ground at the bottom of the porch, provide supports of pieces of odd wire fence for them to grow up so they can reach the porch rails. The rails have pieces of wooden trellis nailed between the top and bottom rails. The vines grow on those. I have never planted Corkscrew Vine before, so this will be a learning experience. Perhaps it won't grow tall enough or spread out enough to cover the porch trellis - or maybe it will go out of control! Just have to wait and see. There is a very good Vine forum on GW that may be able to answer your questions better.

Hi Virginia: How I'm growing it is another thing I'm going to change next year 'cause I have not had a lot of flower production, either. This vine's really been a bit of a challenge :-) Mine has been growing up an arbor, southern exposure. Getting zero shade from late morning on. But, my "mother" plant came to me as a tuber, and after researching the ins and outs of caring for the thing, I decided to put it in a pot so I could easily bring it in for over-wintering. At the time, I didn't want to take the chance I might ruin the tuber when digging it up. (To plant, I sink the pot about 95% down into the garden bed.) Don't know if it being in the pot has helped to cut down on flowering OR if it's the location in the garden. I've also had the problem of many of the leaves falling off. Grrrrr... So, next spring I'm going to do an experiment. I'm going to keep my tuber in the pot, but will also plant vines grown from seeds, which I didn't do this year (gave away ALL my seed starts at the spring swap). I'll also try some in another location. I'm determined to get lots of flowers and pods next year!! Pat was telling me about how wonderful the wafting aroma from the flowers smells...ha! I haven't had that joy yet!! Claudia P.S. Having fun with html...LOL