Re: todays problem
Pam,
I'm still laughing and I apologize to your neighbor. that is truly the
Campsis from hell. Mine gets a bit unruly when it gets off the brick facing
and starts attaching to the aluminum siding, so I have to keep any eye on
it. Our Hort Ed hates this plant and I am sending your description to him.
Kitty
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pam Evans" <gardenqueen@gmail.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 5:06 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] todays problem
> That's amazing. My neighbor across the street has one that actually
> grew up under their foundation, behind the vinyl siding, shooting out
> sprouts at any gap (especially around the windows) and up into and
> between the layers of shingles on their roof. They hacked some of it
> back (breaking a window in the process) but it's still showing up in
> unexpected places. Now it's growing up between the slats on their
> front porch. It's just the regular species red trumpet vine. I have
> the yellow cultivar 'Flava' which is much better behaved.
>
> On 5/8/05, Cathy Carpenter <cathy.c@insightbb.com> wrote:
> > Well, I've never had a vigorous trumpet vine, despite what the books
> > say. Mine (I had dreams of covering an ugly barbed wire fence at the
> > back of the yard) have done nothing but limp along....
> > Cathy
> > On May 7, 2005, at 9:19 PM, Donna wrote:
> >
> > > well if you would have said that last year I would
> > > have believed you....but I cut back a trumpet vine
> > > (which everyone claims would take over the yard) and
> > > it died. No signs of life this spring :(
> > >
> > > Donna
> > > haven't dug it out yet... giving it a tad more time...
> >
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> Kemp TX
> zone 8A
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