i have double white angel trumpet seeds :') but do i have anything that you'd like for them seeds?? ~medo

Hi, Rudy Don't mean to be rude at all, Rude Rudy, but I am in MI, and I have spent the last few years [and a hard sweaty batch of hours just this afternoon, yet again] trying to find some way of **killing** this thing, or even significantly discouraging it. I have put a lot of sweat and blisters into the project over several years, and I am making progress, but still feel like I am losing. I suspect that this may not be same variety, and that certainly the growing conditions where you are are not the same as where I am. But for those in my upper midwest region, I would like to discourage takers on your kind offer, or any plant that is labelled as 'Trumpet Vine/Creeper'. At least make sure you have a calmer cultivated variety, and check with others in your area about that cultivar. Apparently, the native type **really likes it** in our particular environment here. Trumpet Vine/Creeper = a bad planting idea! ........... unless you are in a hurry to cover the barn falling apart in the backlot, and there are no plantings for about a hundred feet in front of it that you care about, and that everything around that is to be mowed on a regular basis........ Rudy said: I suppose that breaking them off like that will not kill them. And I say: At least for the native form in the upper midwest, beware of leaving four inch long root segments that are anything close to a quarter-inch thick. It all begins again.......... Re broken roots and viability... I suspect there will be no problem. They should do just fine >>>> Sorry, Rudy. I am a bit frustrated... Linda

It's a large vine, and has a large root. You could try it, but I think you may be sorry. There's so many more to choose from, and also those that will grow in a pot. Like Hyacinth bean. Everyone I know practically that has it, is sorry that they have it. :) Arum

Nica, good luck. My old neighbors in NYC are still cursing me for planting one when I was 17, that was almost 30 years ago, it's still popping up in their gardens over 100 feet from where it was originally planted. The best you may be able to do is just continue to pull it as it sprouts and hope the roots will eventually exhaust themselves, maybe even in your lifetime! Maid, the vine you have tecoma is a gorgeous vine and can be kept in a pot over the winter indoors. After you posted, I thought it looks like campsis but just a little off and went out and looked for it, thanks to you I now have another plant to try to overwinter! LOL Ah, I love the garden...