Re: shade flowering vine
- Subject: Re: shade flowering vine
- From: D* M*
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 16:55:16 -0500
>Try trumpet vine Campsis. But be prepared to try to keep it under control.
>It tends to e very invasive.
Actually, here in Zone 5, Campsis is "relatively" restrained. It
certainly wants to come back from the roots if you try to dig it up,
but I and several friends have a number of plants, and they show
little tendency to spread. The -25F temps we get in winter really do
keep in check many of the plants that are much more rampant in the
south.
The problem that Pat will have with this plant it that I have yet
to see one that will bloom in the shade in this part of the country.
I have a yellow cultivar that sulked in a location that received only
morning sunshine.
Perhaps one of the Lonicera species. The L. sempervirens are very
pretty, but usually have only 1 early flush of flowers. You might
consider L. periclymenum, but of course, they will all flower less
in shade than in full sun.
--
Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
l*@execpc.com
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