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Re: evergreen flowering vine needed

     As long as freezing is not a problem, you could do Gelsemium 
     sempivirens (Carolina Jessamine).  This vine has pointed, dark green 
     leaves, maybe an inch or so long.  The flowers are yellow and very 
     fragrant.  It's evergreen, and there are cultivars with larger, double 
     flowers, I believe.  The entire plant is poisonous.  I have mine 
     behind a Carissa macrocarpa (Natal Plum) so the thorns keep kids away 
     (although, frankly, I haven't ever had a child try to eat a plant 
     other than vegetables and fruit in my yard; knock on wood).  There is 
     also Philadelphus mexicanus.  I don't believe it's evergreen, but the 
     branches are so numerous, it doesn't matter.  And the flowers have a 
     heavenly fragrance!  Honeysuckle is evergreen, at least the kinds I 
     have, and also fragrant.  The Gelsemium is the best behaved, so far.  
     The others grow fast and need lots of pruning attention, at least 
     where I have them.
     
     As to your other post, for orange flowers, I second the Tithonium 
     recommendation.  You'll find butterflies all over this plant, much 
     more so than on Buddleias.  Coreopsis can be so dark yellow as to 
     appear almost orange.  Cheery calendulas show up in my yard without 
     prompting, and they are yellow and orange annuals, reseeding quite 
     happily.  I have billions and billions of California poppies 
     (Escholzia californica or something), and they come in orange and 
     other colors, as they please.  Oriental poppies are perennial, but 
     pretty much disappear in winter.  I find that, once they like a spot, 
     they'll spread, and you'll never be able to get rid of them, so just 
     be careful where you put them.
     
     If you can take a large plant, try the bush marigolds.  The flowers 
     are so dark yellow as to appear orange, and they are such fragrant 
     shrubs.  They can get quite large, both in height and breadth (I have 
     a Tagetes lemonii that is about 5 feet high and as wide, and another 
     species I can never remember the name of that is about 7 feet tall and 
     four feet wide).  You can prune these much smaller if you like.  The 
     leaves go from dark green to reddish, and I find the plant very 
     ornamental.  I'm really into fragrant plants, and these are a must.


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Subject: evergreen flowering vine needed
Author:  perennials@mallorn.com at Internet
Date:    10/16/97 5:39 PM


Hi everyone
     
been a while since I posted anything but with spring in full swing 
talk about busy!!!
     
Anyway am wanting to hide a ugly fence with a flowering evergreen vine 
of any sort.  The perennial bed to the base of this fence is coloured 
orange, red, yellow, white and silver so would need to fit into this 
scheme ---- I love anything of bold colour.  Our climate is hot and 
muggy summer, frosts can be a problem but not a hoare 
frost.
     
thanks Lara
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