Trumpet Vines or Virginia Creepers
jjb2003
11 years ago
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Comments (1)Have you tried the main Plant/Seed Exchange forums?...See MoreCovering fences with climbing plants and flowers
Comments (29)Trumpet vine can be very invasive but they are beautiful on ugly chain link fences. Try one of the less invasive varieties; I think "Monbal" which is red, is one of them. Also, never plant Engl. ivy anywhere! Depending on your soil & light, have you thought of climbing roses? *Not* Rugosa, another invasive pest, but the beauties like Zephirin Drouhin. I grew up with autumn clematis all around the neighborhood, maybe I should say taking over the neighborhood---it smells like heaven when blooming, but takes over everywhere it can. Watch out for it! If they could make a sterile version I would buy it in a minute, though. Nothing beats that scent. You could plant morning glories along with these other things, too. They are annuals, so even if they volunteer in places you don't want them, all you have to do is pull them out....See MoreTrumpet Creeper Vine?
Comments (6)1) they need full sunlight to flower...and it will climb that tree as fast as it can reach branches. 2) yes, 'invasive' hardly does it justice. you'd be amazed how much growth you can get out of one stuck in a 1-gallon container. ideally, you can dig a hole big enough to sink a 5-gallon bucket 3" above the soil level, put the trumper creeper in a 3-gallon bucket with drainage holes, and fill the space between the little one and the big one with rocks or gravel. mulching over the top of it in the fall becomes no problem, and all you have to worry about is it 'creeping' over the edge- it will start to root anywhere the vine touches ground for more than a week....See MoreWish me luck...killing things!
Comments (10)Y'all make me laugh. Goats would work but some neighbors don't appreciate having goats next door. I happen to love goats, but don't have any and don't want them. I already have enough animals and plants to feed and care for. We do have neighbors with goats, and if there is anything cuter than little kids playing in the pasture or goat yard, I don't know what it is. Goats are great unless they find a way into someone's vegetable garden, and then they can become demons of destruction. Kate, I love invasive vines and plant them on purpose because they generally survive drought on no rainfall, unlike everything else around here. They do make a wonderful privacy screen. If you want to cut and remove them, you will have the best success by cutting them off at ground level and painting a brush killer onto the stumps. Or, drill holes in the stumps and pour the brush killer into the holes. Nothing else will get rid of aggresive vining plants, and there is nothing organic that works even 10% as well on aggressive vines as a synthetic brush killer. You have to be careful, though, and cannot compost any of the plant matter from plants treated with brush killer as it sometimes degrades very slowly and can survive the composting process and then kill plants you try to grow in compost that contains traces of the brush killer. I am thinking about extending the eastern edge of our garden about 20' by moving the fence 20' east from where it sits now just so I can plant a row of aggressive vines along the east and south garden fencelines. I was watching our neighbor's hired hand drive back and forth pulling a spray rig behind him for the last two days and I know what this means 9 times out of 10. It means his herbicide drift will reach my tomato plants and severely harm or kill them. As I pondered what I could grow as a living border to protect the plants, it occurred to me that trumpet creeper would do it. Now I'm going to have to break the news to Tim that I want to extend the size of the garden just so I have room to plant some highly invasive vines. He hates putting up new fencing (after fencing in our 14.4 acres when we bought it, he swore he'd never put up any more fencing again). Ha! It is like pulling teeth to get him to put up more fencing, but I've managed to get him to fence in gardens, chicken runs and a dog yard that keeps our dogs contained in one spot. Be sure you really want to get rid of the vines before you do it because it is a ton of work, and you lose a ton of privacy and also a living barrier that may keep your neighbors' use of herbicide from sending drift into your garden that will kill your plants. I get herbicide drift when local ranchers spray herbicides in their fields, when the county road workers spray roadside areas that are too steep to mow (like the banks of our creek near the county road/bridge), and when the railroad sprays the area alongside the tracks that are well over a mile away from us. The more highly invasive plants I can grow to our east the better since all the sprayed areas from which we get herbicide drift are to our east because our woodlands protect us from the south (mostly), the west and the north, the better it is for all the flowers, veggies and herbs I love to grow. Sometimes highly invasive vines serve a very useful purpose. Good luck killing them, if you're sure that's what you want. Dawn...See Morejjb2003
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