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Clare_CA wrote:
Dale, I had to remove mine, and I still can't get rid of it. This is a seriously aggressive vine. Those long runners will root whereever it is moist on the ground. They send down roots where they touch and new plants develop at every node. Before you know it, it will send runners out from each rooted postion, which in turn will root where they touch the ground. I had this vine for two years. It behaved very well for the first year. By year two, it was growing out of control and was more than I could handle. Even though I removed the main vine last year, the roots left in the ground send up new shoots all the time, which pop up all over the place. This vine is beautiful but too much work for me.

Edited to add: All Morning Glories get yellow leaves which shed. Also, I would not fertilize this vine.

This is one place where it used to be:

This message was edited Jun 25, 2004 10:42 AM