Hi Goblechick, I have several of the plants you're looking for: echinacea, crocosmia (orange and Lucifer), rose campion, lavatera (if my DH hasn't pulled it all out!), pulmonaria, and white Jacob's ladder. There are probably more that you would be interested in, too. Do you ever get over to the Kelso-Longview area? If you're interested, send me an e-mail and I will give you directions. Please let me know on this thread if you send the e-mail since it seems some of them are getting lost in the system. Barb

Zee, let's leave it to grow out a little if you don't mind, and I'll take it after we know for sure that I won't kill it. By then, we'll know how my rooting experiment has gone. Are you going to be able to come to Henrietta's in about a month's time for clean-up day (posted on MAG forum)? If not, there is always the fall swap, in case we can't work out a convenient time/place. Ladyslipper, thank you for the rooting information. I'm not sure I have the patience to coddle anything for months, but I can certainly leave it alone and see what happens. I'll take it out of the bag from time to time and dry it out, to minimize potential mold problems.

It's a beautiful native tree. why not plant vines on your fence? I would not use the invasive Japanese honeysuckle under any circumstances. Perhaps Lonicera heckrotii 'Goldflame' which is fragrant. A very long flowering, but non-fragrant honeysuckle is our native L. sempervirens which attracts hummingbirds all growing season. Here is a link that might be useful: Lonicera x heckrottii 'Goldflame'

Figured I'd update this post since when I first created it I couldn't find anything that really helped me with what I wanted to do that wasn't just a traditional trellis. First thing I'll say is I'll never grow passionflowers in the ground anywhere near my house again. Both native types - passiflora incarnata and passiflora lutea - spread around the yard and every week I was pulling tens of sprouts. The Variegated Frittilaries loved it and it was fun seeing caterpillars but what a headache. Keep them in containers, or way out in the woods. So I stuck with Loniceras. I went with two trellises on two sides of my house (one by the deck, another on the other corner) that wrapped 180 degrees around half the gutter and grew Major Wheeler on it. These were cool trellises but a little pricey. I liked this setup, I just had to keep it trimmed or it would look a little unkempt on the house. And since Lonicera sempervirens is a twining vine I didn't worry about it attaching to or ruining the hardiplank. And I don't think ants like this vine because I didn't see many of them. The hummingbirds go crazy over this vine and I got great pictures of them over the years. Then I had the other corner of the screened in deck that I wanted to do something with so I used two strings of metal twine between eyehooks in the soffit and near the bottom of the deck. I did two strings because I felt that a honeysuckle vine might have difficulty twining up just one. Here I went with Lonicer sempervirens 'John Clayton' which might be my favorite vine. It's a vigorous grower and the color is awesome. But we moved out and I inherited a trellis over some stairs to the backyard on which I'm growing three Major Wheelers. I still want a John Clayton vine so I created a single post support for it in the back based on the instructions from here. I'll update this post with a picture after it's grown a bit.