Re: cardinal/cypress vine
Bob Wiltshire wrote:
> I, too am interested. Is there anyone with "Midwest" experience with cold
> winters? We went to the local botanical garden (Powell Gardens) last
> weekend and my wife has been *nearly* nagging?! me to find out about the
> cypress vine and could we have one and how many colors is it! I have to
> confess for all the questions, I can see she is coming around to the
> gardening idea. I want to encourage it!
>
> Also interested,
> Bob (and Linda, who will *never* see this post!)
> NE Kansas, Also Zone 6A
>
> At 07:18 PM 09/07/1999 -0400, you wrote:
> >Someone gave me a cardinal / cypress vine over the Labor Day weekend.
> >Have any of you had any experience with this?
> >Is it perennial?
> >How tall it gets, how hardy is it? Best exposure for it, etc.?
> >Thanks,
> >Linda Wallpe
> >Cincinnati, Ohio Zone 6A
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I live in Western Kentucky (Zone 6). This is my first year with the cardinal/cypress vine
and it has done wonderfully, but have also had small plants beginning to come up
in unwanted places. I have just pulled them up.
My mother-in-law has had this plant for years. It comes back every year , no matter how
bad the winter has been. She & I have only seen the red color. Hummingbirds love it. It loves
full sun, partial sun. I'm not sure how it does in full shade. It comes up a little later
than most spring perennials.
She started some at the base of an electric-line pole and it grew and grew, until the
electric company men tore it down. The vines are small.
It is a beautiful plant, but will get away from you if you don't keep a close eye on it.
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della@apex.net (Della L. Wyatt)
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