Texas Gardening: Coral Vine, 1 by lovediggin

lovediggin wrote:
I grow both coral and bleeding heart vine. I don't know if they are in the same family or not but they don't seem that connected to me, but then I have not thought of it before. The bleeding heart has been wonderful and much more robust a grower that the coral. Mine has gotten about 15 ft in one season.for the last two seasons I have had it. It completely freezes to the ground and comes back rather slowly, like a coral but has stiff woody stalks and gorgeous dark heart shaped leaves, bigger than my coral. I have to tie it up to the support as it grows. It doesn't begin to bloom until the weather cools in the early fall and then puts on a show until frost kills it. The blooms are fantastic, I have the purple and fuschia one.