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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2012 20:42:03 GMT
You must try to grow it Cheery. I'll send you seeds if you want. PM me please and I'll be happy to oblige.
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Post by Ruprekha on Mar 18, 2013 14:42:01 GMT
Happened to drop by this site while searching for a name of a particular flower. So glad I landed here. Its a beautiful site with lovely pictures and great information. I have a few of these vines in my garden, very fond of them.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2013 15:40:28 GMT
Well, feel free to drop in as often as you like!
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 21, 2013 3:07:38 GMT
Thanks, Ruprekha! In what part of the world is your garden?
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 20, 2014 6:21:38 GMT
I am rather proud of this vine, as I renovated it from some pitiful sticks in the planter in front of my porch. I ran rope up & down to form triangles against the west-facing wall perpendicular to the porch & have been training (& judiciously pruning) Clerodendrum thomsoniae 'delectum' along it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2014 11:40:25 GMT
And proud you should be Bixa. Just gorgeous!!!!! I have one of these too. I've used then in cut flower bouquets, they hold up well.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2014 14:03:04 GMT
Oh, that's a really great vine! Does it bloom all the time?
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Post by htmb on Oct 21, 2014 23:44:39 GMT
Delightful, bixa, and such gorgeous colors!
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 22, 2014 4:17:06 GMT
Thanks to all of you! Yes, it does bloom all the time. When I posted the picture, I read back through the thread & saw that Casimira had also posted a lovely pic & the information that the hummingbirds love the flowers. True!
There is one of these next door as well, & it's completely out of control. Once established, they grow very well here, but the vines next door are like Sleeping Beauty's castle. They completely block the light from the front of that house & overhang the sidewalk so much that no one can walk there. I've seen them growing in that state a great deal, which is why it took me a long while to warm to them. Mine are kept so that they provide some cool green relief to the white wall & so that the floral displays are highlighted.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 22, 2014 5:01:35 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2014 6:01:10 GMT
It's nice to see those glorious details, but they give us no idea of the actual size of the plant.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2014 12:33:14 GMT
The pics appear to be enlarged some, but, the bloom is fairly large and not to far from it's actual size. I 'll let Bixa elaborate of course since she took the piccs.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 22, 2014 17:03:47 GMT
Actually, the blooms are bigger than they appear in that last picture. The leaves vary a good bit in size. It's a rampant grower. I suspended a "ladder" I made from twine & dowels from a horizontal bar that supports the covered part of the driveway. The bar is @7' high, but the tendrils have overtaken it & are colonizing the carport roof and the property walls.
One of the things I read about the vine is that the flowers have an unpleasant odor, although the ones on my vine seem to have none at all. Have you noticed any such thing, Casimira?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2014 11:52:21 GMT
The one I have has no odor whatsoever. My friend who I walk my dog with in the a.m. is familiar with some of the other species of them. I will ask her if she knows of this.
The large elm tree that we had to have taken out this past summer was the main support of the original vine that I planted several years ago. When they took it down, the seeds from the pods (each pod holds about 30 seeds) were dispersed all over. I have sproutings of them everywhere!
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 23, 2014 19:54:18 GMT
Ha! I'm going to have to stop dead-heading mine & see what happens.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2014 11:55:28 GMT
The pods are really cool looking. But, don't say I didn't warn you about how prolific they are at volunteering.
I had sent some seeds to Mick the cactus in the UK and Tod2 in Africa but haven't heard any reports on how they performed.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 15, 2014 2:55:48 GMT
There was discussion about the size of flowers & leaves on the dutchman's pipe vine. I finally got around to taking pics to show the sizes. The flower one is bad because it was growing close to the street wall & I couldn't get far enough back to focus correctly. Also, had to hold the tape measure in my left hand & it was too awkward to hold it right-side up. Take what you can get.
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 15, 2015 11:49:30 GMT
I saw this multi coloured berry vine on a fence down at Kent seaside on Sunday. Very pretty but I've no idea what it is -
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2015 19:04:13 GMT
Mick, that is ampelopsis brevipedunculata, AKA, Porcelain Berry vine. Mentioned earlier on in this thread.
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 16, 2015 7:28:09 GMT
Thank you Casi - much appreciated.
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 16, 2015 8:04:32 GMT
Yes, found it back in 2009 although no picture there now. From what you say, it seems ideally suited to the UK climate.
Also there is mention of a blue Thunbergia but again no picture. I love Thunbergias but generally there is only one variety available here. Any chance of a picture anybody?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2015 22:35:07 GMT
The ivy in my upstairs room is slowly but surely reaching the attic window. That is usually when it suddenly dies. Happens every time.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2015 16:12:25 GMT
Yes, found it back in 2009 although no picture there now. From what you say, it seems ideally suited to the UK climate. Also there is mention of a blue Thunbergia but again no picture. I love Thunbergias but generally there is only one variety available here. Any chance of a picture anybody? Bixa would be the one to find a blue Thunbergia and photos of as I saw a gazillion of them when I visited Oaxaca years ago. They are truly gorgeous. Researching Thunbergias, the blues in particular,it appears there area slew of different species of them much like the Clerondendrum family. And, I am loathe to cite one without knowing specifically the botanical name as opposed to the generic common name. They all have different characteristics(Pet peeve of mine, sorry...).
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 19, 2017 5:54:33 GMT
This thread is so well named, as vines are indeed glorious. I'm showing two here I started from seed (the cucuzza & the moonflower) and one I bought as a well-started plant (the Mandevilla) ~ These three were taken at night: Male cucuzza flower ~ Female cucuzza flower ~ Mandevilla ~ Moonflower ~
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Post by bixaorellana on May 3, 2017 6:07:31 GMT
Mandevilla growing with Senecio macroglossus 'Variegatus' ~
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Post by bixaorellana on May 3, 2017 22:25:15 GMT
Okay, I know that climbing roses are technically not vines, but we can say that in landscaping they are used like vines, right?
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 16, 2019 5:36:20 GMT
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Post by casimira on May 6, 2020 12:12:10 GMT
I received some seeds of clitoria ternatea, commonly known as butterfly pea along with some other common names. It is an intense cobalt blue color and grows prolifically and is heat tolerant. I will put it in when my sweet peas die off which won't be long now. I received it in a seed exchange with a woman in Houston. (I sent her some Dutchman's Pipe seeds). I grew this vine many years ago, so, am real excited about growing it again. It is revered in India and used in daily puja ceremonies. And, yes, it's botanical name was given because it is imagined to resemble parts of the female genitalia.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 6, 2020 12:53:29 GMT
I haven’t even planted my sweet peas out yet!
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Post by casimira on May 7, 2020 16:19:24 GMT
I planted mine later than usual (late January, early February I wanna say?).
Anyway, they came up nicely but I have been disappointed in that they are/did not bloom as profusely compared to previous years. And, I do pick them almost daily to prolong their flowering.
I attribute this to the PH of the soil being too acidic and too much nitrogen. Sweet peas perform much, much better when one adds some lime into the soil. They like a "sweet" soil.
I learned this from one of my elderly clients from back in the early '90's and she was right. I regret not adding the lime this year and now know it is proof positive that her sage advice was/is "spot on".
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