Anyone else growing Hyacinth Bean vine?
My four plants have taken a long time to get started but in the last few weeks their growth is seriously picking up. The leaves are gorgeous. I'm pretty excited about what the plant will look like once the flowers appear.
The seed packet indicates "Mounding vines look wonderful rambling among flower beds" and based on that I planted two of them without a trellis behind them. But on the web I see things like "require sturdy 10-15' support" of a trellis, arbor, etc.
Has anyone else just let them "ramble among the flower beds"?
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dena_eft
7 years agoRick (zone 6b, MA)
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7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoRick (zone 6b, MA)
7 years agoRick (zone 6b, MA)
7 years agoIs it best to snip the growing vertical stems to get the plant to grow out laterally? It seems that every year I have to learn this all over again. I did it last year with Morning Glory and Cardinal Climber, but with the thicker and more stout stems of Hyacinth Bean it seems more damaging to the plant and I'm not convinced it really will help lateral stems to form. I don't want to hurt the poor stems growing upward so vigorously! Yet I'm sure if I don't I'll get very little on the lower levels of the trellis. Here are two of the three stems climbing up the trellis, getting close to the top. Advice would be appreciated.
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