I have three of them that I've been enjoying for my second year, a Decaisneana, Incense, and Lady Margret. I put mine out on the deck in as much sun as I can get as soon as the last frost is past and then bring them in again when the first frost is threatening. When I bring them in for the winter I put them in the brightest windows I have (a East and a South). My Lady Margret began blooming in January and hasn't stopped yet, the incense began blooming as soon as it started getting some fuller direct sun, the decaisneana is a bruiser of a vine but is a slower grower and a late bloomer for me (end of October last year - inside, in front of a east window). I give mine just plain water and try to let them get a bit dry in between. I've been told that they bloom better under stess. I do hit them with a bit of Tomato booster once or twice during the growing season (as it's what I have on hand). good luck! you'll get so much enjoyment out of these plants - I've found that they are truly a plant that WANTS to grow :)

Passionvine is easy to grow as long as it's not in a really dry place. It can grow over 20' in one season but dies back to the ground each winter. Can be late to emerge; the one on my back porch railing didn't come up until mid-May last year due to our long cool spring. If you have it in good soil the roots will roam; mine has put up some runners in the raised bed behind my house adjacent to the railing, but the runners are easy to pull up and the vine hasn't been hard to control. The vine produces large fruit, which since they're large and relatively few are easy to remove if you don't want it to seed in more. Passionflower is not a very dense vine so your coral honeysuckle will probably be fine next to it. The flower is described as fragrant but I wouldn't describe the fragrance as good or sweet; strange is more like it. Of course the flowers are very intricately beautiful.

Wiley, I have plenty of little sprouts coming up from my lavender-flowered passiflora incarnata and would be happy to share a few bare-root shoots if I can find any more this late in the season (I just finished pulling & discarding a bunch, as I already have 4 potted and rooted for an upcoming local plant swap.) My plant was a gift sent bare-root from a fellow gardener in the southeastern U.S., where these plants are native, up to Virginia and southeastern Pennsylvania. It is perfectly winter-hardy without protection other than the usual winter mulch of shredded leaves in my USDA Zone 7 garden on the mid-NJ coast. Don't despair if you don't see anything in spring - these didn't earn their name "Maypop" for nothing! Due to our cooler spring this year, mine was up quite late, but has made up for it. I don't know how well it would fare through a zone 6 winter, but it wouldn't hurt to try. I would recommend planting it in a large, deep nursery pot sunk into the ground, as once established they do send up shoots quite a distance from the mother plant. Let me know if you are still interested - there should still be time for it to establish some roots before the soil cools.

We have trumpetcreeper vine in several places and, while it is more invasive than I like, the hummers do love it. The only place it is under-control is on the arbor down near the driveway gate and mailbox. There I have both the orange and yellow flowered trumpet creepers in unimproved, rock-hard red clay and the only irrigation they get is rainfall. In those conditions they stay fairly small and manageable and I don't have to prune them or anything. During a really prolonged dry spell they may even drop foliage and go dormant, but they always rebound when the rain finally starts falling again. The trumpet creeper plants I have near the house sometimes pop up in places where I don't want them, but I either dig them out, or smother them with cardboard and mulch. I have trumpet creeper planted around our in-ground tornado shelter, which sticks up out of the ground a couple of feet. It doesn't look that great in winter when it is dormant, but in the springtime, the vines totally hide the tornado shelter. Of course, I have to prune it back regularly to keep it from growing across the door. While trumpet creeper is not my favorite vine, I grow it for the wild critters and it is lovely in bloom in August when other plants are struggling in the heat. Another vine the hummers love is American Cross Vine. It is native in Texas and the hummers follow its blooms as they migrate across Texas. Here, the hummers sometimes arrive before my Cross Vine blooms so I can only assume they don't rely on it as they migrate across our state. We have wild honeysuckle in the woods, but I won't plant that kind of honeysuckle in the "civilized" part of our landscape. Here around the house I have a coral honeysuckle called "Pink Lemonade" that the hummers absolutely adore. It is blooming now on the entry arbor that leads into my veggie garden and the hummers are buzzing around it all day long. Dawn