Deer/ Honeysuckle and Trumpet Vine
robinva
16 years ago
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sweetkountry
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'Trumpet' Vines?
Comments (9)welcome to NC! ok- as far as the honeysuckles the one you want to avoid is the japanese one, lonicera japonica. you can plant coral honeysuckle which is vigorous, but not invasive, and unfortunately not fragrant. it's lonicera sempervirens. it's a gorgeous coral red with yellowy throats that the hummers adore, and blooms heavily in spring then on & off all summer through fall. there are some yellow flowered cultivars of it. there are some other honeysuckles and i'm sorry i can't recall the names, that look a bit more like the jap kind, but are flushed with pink and gold and behave well and have fragrance that the hummers enjoy. campsis radicans, trumpet vine-aka cow itch-aka trumpet creeper is a native vine, but it is pretty invasive. i have it on my prop and let it grow up into one tree for the hummers, but keep the rest mowed off at the ground. it's like maypop- it comes up far and wide form the original from underground runners. cross vine- bignonia capreolata, is semi-well behaved. it's a native, too- and it's everywhere for me, and hard to eradicate where you don't want. it likes to climb high and flower- it flowers at about 40-60' in my trees. i think the improved versions like tangerine may flower more profusely for you than the straight species. hummers love both cross and trumpet vine, and i have both growing up big trees and flowering very successfully. they also like carolina jessamine, another native that can get a bit unruly. it's yellow, unlike the others, and so it could offer some contrast. another thing you may not have considered for hummers, is coral bells, heuchera species (look for the ones with red or pink bells- so many now have smaller dingy white flowers). and most of the salvias are magnets, too, even the blue ones like guaranitica. they like annuals like petunias, morning glories and million bells, too. more uncommon vines like manettia and mina lobata tickle them for later in the year. all that said, i'd be cautious about planning to plant too much this year though, with the drought. the likelihood of it continuing is too great, and water too scare to water much. if you are going to plant, do it soon while the earth is still moist and the things can get well established before it gets too dry. even with that, there's a good chance you'll lose much of what you plant now. i think i'd be content to get 2 or 3 feeders and hang those to draw in the hummers this year. best of luck with your gardens!...See MoreCoral Honeysuckle Vine & Passion Vine
Comments (20)I have not been on this forum, in particular, for awhile The other day I came across a house that is to be demolished The gardens are all overgrown. I dug up a few things, and whomever had the property had spent a great deal of time in that yard What attracted me was how wildly gorgeous the orange honeysuckle vine has grown.Or coral as you have written I did not bring any of the vine with me. as I wasn't sure if it grows from cuttings or needs root. The bulldozer will be there I was told Monday morning. I will get back over and get some cuttingsbut would like to hear from you as to what is best to do....See MoreHoneysuckle, trumpet vine... or something else?
Comments (3)I can't believe it! I have never been to the vine forum but the day I decide to ask someone here how to get rid of my trumpet vine is the day when there is a post about it! Our house is close to 100 years old and I wouldn't doubt that the trumpet vine is close to that age! It comes up everywhere. Our front yard is very hard to plant and keep looking nice because of this vine. I just found a piece of it on the other side of the house on the OTHER side of our cement driveway. Unless you have a place that you have no desire to keep weeded and plant no other plants with, I would stay away from trumpet vine....See Moretrumpet vines
Comments (0)I have had a red trumpet vine for about 15 yrs. I have moved it from a pot to the front yard, to a side yard, to the back yard.( the same plant!) and its only been the last 4 yrs that its been flowering! and it grows now right next to a honeysuckle vine, sometimes the trumpet grows just overtop of the honeysuckle, but it never gets out of hand. Personally, I think the honeysuckle keeps it under control! and they all grow in heavy clay soil, in a raised box bed, along a fence. So far so good. I finally got my hands on some red and yellow pods from my cousin who has them growing up the side of a 30x30x10 ft tall(30 ft tall that is) chicken/peacock coop and it covers the coop-top to bottom/side to side! Beautifully! So I know this plant can get some serious growth height to it!...See Morerumbum
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