ok, how i root mine is to get soil in a 1 gal baggie, then i mist it, then poke the holes in there where you are going to put the plants, (make sure the dirt is damp). now you strip your vine til up two leaves. wet it, dip it in rooting horomone. make sure you cut it just below the node (where the leave was). stick the vine in the soil pat the soil lightly around the vine, once you have done all of the vine's. mist the vines. now seal all but say......2-3 inches. blow the bag up with YOUR breath. till its full and make sure to keep it full while your zipping it shut. i hang it in a window, not where the sun comes in brightly. and in about 2 weeks i have roots. good luck!! ~Medo

I have an Angel Trumpoet vine. I say that because the plant never exceeds the height of 2 feet, yet spreads out as long as 4 to 5 foot branches along my flower bed. The flowers are white and only bloom at night. They make a large beautiful ground cover for a large flower bed or the side of the house. They are poisoness but none of my animals are interested. the trumpet vine is beautiful in bloom and attracts hummingbirds all year long. I've never heard of anyone or any animal being poisoned by one. Thank you.

There is a stronger version of roundup that is specific for hard to kill invasive stuff like poison ivy, oak and sumac, as well as choke cherry trees and stuff. Go to your local hardware store and in the section with the weed killers you'll find it. it's called roundup for poison ivy or something like that. It used to be called roundup brush. I've used on on trumpet vines and presto, they are dying and gone. Use it for the real nasty stuff like the poison ivy and it's great. good luck and they don't carry it at home depot or walmart in my area.

It is too early yet. They'll be simply everywhere once the timing is right. Just be sure you understand that once you have it, you'll have it forever because it won't die and you can't kill it. You can control it by pruning it back really, really hard. We have native ones in our area that climb to the top of telephone poles, and then begin growing out horizontally along the electric lines, phone lines, etc. We planted Madam Galens trumpet creeper near the house and have to cut it back aggressive or it totally takes over, but it is less aggressive than the native ones. We have the yellow-flowered one, 'Flava' planted on an arbor down near the driveway gate and it has survived almost 20 years on nothing but rainfall, except I did water it in the drought of 2011. On the western fence of the fenced back garden, we planted one called 'Balboa Sunset'. Its flowers are a really pretty dark orange that really is almost a reddish-orange and it seems slightly less vigorous than 'Madam Galens' so it is my current favorite. I am pretty sure I got Flava and Madam Galens at a standard big box store like Lowe's, Home Depot or Wal-Mart, probably in mid-Spring in 1-gallon pots. I think the 'Balboa Sunset' was found at a specialty nursery in Texas that has plants that are a little more off the beaten path. It was a Monrovia plant, though, so ought to be available at the right time in Spring anywhere that Monrovia plants are sold. A lot of people don't like trumpet creeper because of its vigorous, aggressive growth, but I love it. It not only is beautiful, but also very attractive to the hummingbirds and it provides shade where you need it--much more quickly than a tree will. One of the Madam Galens plants completely hides our tornado shelter and most people don't even realize there is a tornado shelter underneath that big mound of a plant, except for the fact that there is a door there. I do have to aggressively prune back the vine from the tornado shelter door in Spring or the door disappears underneath the vines, and that's a no-no during tornado season. One of my favorite professional horticulturalists always gives the best answer when someone says "how tall will trumpet creeper vine grow?". His answer always is that it will grow several feet taller (he may say six, he may say eight---I don't remember precisely) than the nearest supporting structure that it is being grown on. It's true---it does do that. It just grows above and beyond the nearest support until it gets so tall that its weight makes it hang back down towards the ground. Dawn