Re: Climbers for fence??

Gayle Kalman wrote:
>        If you do not object to replanting every year, Thunbergia gregii
> Orange Clock Vine, is very showy and easy.

Hi Gayle and others,

  Just wanted to mention that Thunbergia gregorii has a bum rap for
  being tender. The Sunset W.G. book says it is Sunset zones 21-24,
  but I have had my 2 vines for several years now. The tops turn
  brown with the first hard frost, but they come back in the spring,
  even after that horrid winter a few years ago when it got down to
  15 deg F here 3 nights in a row.

  It is self-mulching in the sense that it drops a thick layer 
  of dead flowers on the ground, and needs no attention other than
  ripping all the dead stuff off the trellis in early spring, and
  a little help training the new shoots to go up the trellis again
  in the spring (otherwise they tend to grow out like ground cover).

  I wish all my other vines were as well-behaved. I've pretty much
  ripped out every vine I've tried (for being too rambunctious, or
  too much deadheading/pruning/attention needed) except for the 
  T.gregorii and Mandevilla laxa.

-- Irene Kuffel
Napa Valley
California.
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