Sue, if you want to add that info to your profile so that it shows automatically by your name, here's how: Go to Your Houzz in the upper right of every page, click Edit Profile, and on the left side click advanced settings. Well down the advanced settings page is a blank labeled Climate Zone for Garden Forums along with a link to find your zone. If you add info on your state or the nearest large city you will get even better information since zone only relates to average coldest winter temperatures. Then return to the top of the page and click Done Editing.

Well, you may be a good candidate for the vile weed. My aunt (from Washington) was here last year when it flowered, and was admiring it. I sent her photos of it absolutely all over the woodland near the lake, and the areas around a creek. I think I convinced her it was evil (though it may not have been in her dry cold climate). I mentioned that fact to her (just in case). The other thing is that sometimes it smells sweet, other plants smell VILE and attract flies, it's rather variable. Hee, maybe it's a survival tactic though...there's more flies in the world than bees. If no one gets you cuttings, i can probably provide in spring. I don't think in my heat, trying to ship cuttings now would be good. And fall would be a bad time to root them. I'd rather send you an entire plant...but it's awfully hard to find a small one..maybe because they grow so fast.

Sweet Autumn, not as spectacular a photo this season. I found a New way to use my pesky Maple tree this season. My Huldine(spelling) clematis is blooming now. I know it's a late bloomer but it was added this spring, not sure if this is too late for it. SA dies back to the ground here, I do find a new seedling every year but I do remove them, I have three of these in my garden and they do smell good. SherrySherry

I just bought my second one yesterday. I needed a replacement for another vine that did not return :( My current one will be in its 3rd year. So we will see how big she gets this fall. I grow it up/along my fence. It is lovely! This new second one will be grown up a trellis on my shed. I will need to add something along the roof line for it to grab on to as the trellis will just not be enough. They can get huge, just not sure how big up here in the north. In the south they grow and reseed like crazy. The best time to cut back is in the spring when you see new growth at the base. If you google it, you can get an idea of how enormous they can get. If you don’t have a fence, or anywhere to plant it, perhaps you could purchase an Arbor (not white) for it to grow up and over? What site that would be.... last fall