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To: txhurl
Thank you. Passion vines are not winter hardy here even though the climate change has moved us a half zone warmer, not warm enough. I might be able to grow one in the sunroom but I have enough to care for in there for the winter. I also wanted a bougainvillea which aren't hardy here either.

I've got some trellises that need assembling and plenty of things that are hardy here. One rose I set out 2 years ago is a vigorous climber and is going to be too much for me. That monster rose in my photo only blooms in the spring and I've been thinking of getting rid of it, don't know.

I was going to get rid of the 6 apricot roses like that one photo because I'm tired of having my hands and arms (and clothes) torn up trying to weed around and through them but they're so beautiful and rebloom all summer I will try to put up with it.

It won't be happy out there once the Jap beetles emerge but I don't waste too much energy on them. I hope my cherries are good and can get them frozen before they come. This is year 3 for that little tree and I need to untie and pull out that stake.

That passionvine sure is pretty though, I must say. I'd settle for a honeysuckle if I could find some like a couple I've seen around town that tells me they are hardy. Only problem is some are invasive or hard to keep in bounds.

39 posted on 05/11/2012 3:43:33 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: Aliska
Honeysuckle is as invasive as kudzu. And persistent.

Those apricot roses are stunning, maybe you should just move them.. you could in theory create a hedge in a corner somewhere if you combine the rose with, say, a large wisteria and and hydrangea? They look weird at first but once trimmed into a hedge are an interesting conversation object.


41 posted on 05/11/2012 4:19:23 PM PDT by txhurl (Thank you, Andrew Breitbart. In your untimely passing, you have exposed these people one last time.)
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To: Aliska

We have battled honeysuckle for the 15 years we have lived here. lol The lady who owned the house previously said it was planted in pots to contain it but apparently it escaped. We have found pots when digging so evidently she tried to keep it from going wild but it didn’t work.
It looks pretty on the fence and smells heavenly but it is a constant fight to try to contain it.


62 posted on 05/12/2012 11:16:55 AM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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