Snail vine vs. Shell vine..whats the difference?
lookingglassgarden
18 years ago
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Have shell/corkscrew vine for special trade
Comments (9)The foliage of both is pretty much the same. When not in bloom, just by sight, I'd be hard pressed to tell them apart. I think the leaves on my snail vine might be a bit smaller. My corkscrew vine has a light scent 24/7, not just at night. The pics in the earlier post are of my vines and I've had both for several years. I cut them back and keep them dormant during the winter. Maybe yours is something different? Post a pic next season when it's back in bloom....See MoreShell Vine, or is It a Snail Vine?
Comments (2)If your looking for the corkscrew vine make sure you ask and double ask I too ordered the shell plant with the pic of the corkscrew vine and got the snail vine, it's very impossible to know what your getting tropical 9 nursureys said they carry both I tripled asked them to make sure it is the corkscrew vine I'm just waitting for it to come into stock also daves garden can clear up the difference between the two confusing sister plants. I'm getting my first seed pod and if someone wants to trade the snail vine(only lavendar colored flowers and no scent for the corkscrew vine. Very intersted kllauer76@hotmail.com...See MoreRunner Cannellini vs Cannellini vs Cannellini Gigande - help!
Comments (22)Adding to the white bean confusion: "Cannellini" is a specific bush common bean also known as "white kidney bean" that I grow as a shelly. "Cannellini" is also unfortunately is used to describe most any large white seeded bean except possibly Lima beans. Therefore the concept of a "pole cannellini" will forever remain elusive or even meaningless. I know that is a dismal view, but it seems to be the way it is. ;-) "Brita's Foot Long" is a very fine pole shelly or dry bean that could be renamed "pole cannellini" so we could have a pole cannellini. ;D "Monteges del Gaxnet" is favorite in Spain. It has more of a curve that kidney types. I am trialing it this year, a year even more difficult here than 2008 was. Our spring has been incredibly wet and colder than parts of Siberia and Alaska. So it is not really getting a fair trial. More confusion: "Bond's Orcas Lima" is a very early pole runner with large seeds and good eating quality. It easily produced mature seed here in the PNW even in a very difficult year like 2008. "Bianco di Spagna" or "Italian Butter Bean" is sold by seed companies as a common bean but it is a runner with huge shellies up to 1-3/4 inches long. It is fairly late but does produce mature seed here in the PNW. "Cannellini Gigante" is a pole runner with very large seeds that will produce dry seed here. Good shellies. "Delucci Cannellini" is a pole runner that will produce dry seed here. Very large and good quality shellies. "Gigantes" is a very large seeded pole runner bean that is only grown in a specific region in Greece. The name is protected by EU law so if you grow these in other parts of the EU, you have to call them something else. "Gigandes" is a large seeded Lima that is sold by that name by Purcell Mountain Farms. It makes an outstanding bean soup with little added to it besides onion and salt. I have about 2 gallons of it on cooking this morning. I would love to be able to grow that one.- Dick...See MoreInfo. on 'corkscrew' or' shell' vine , wisteria won't flower
Comments (7)The previous post from thistle is correct - pruning, pruning, pruning! Let me guess: the one trained into a tree gets pruned regularly to maintain the tree shape, and the one on the fence just grows wild? There's your answer right there. You have got to stay on top of these things or else they just spread leafy vines everywhere. You have to know a couple of things about how they grow to get it right. Google "pruning wisteria" for more info. To quickly summarize... The flower buds are set at the end of the summer, then grow out and bloom in the spring. The green leafy runners that the vine sends out do not produce any flowers. If you pinch them off the new ones after they have six or eight nodes (sets of leaves), they will develop side shoots that may flower later in the spring or the next year. I have a 25x10 foot wistera here in Chicago that blossoms consistently. I am training it to grow and cover a two-story brick wall, so I am pruning and rearranging it all the time to grow where I want it. I also have another in the same spot. It has never bloomed (it started as just a six-inch sprout two years ago!) but then I have also never pruned it. On 90+ degree days, these things are rampant. I have seen either of them extend a shoot by a foot from one day to the next! When it's cooler, in the 70s, they will barely grow at all....See Moretaylor_tx
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