Mile a minute vine

Clare here's the vines you sent,seems I have a race going with ipomea and flame vine,running out of bamboo sticks.

Close up shot

I need those! What varieties are they?

b2b I think one is ipoema carnea,and the other is mexican flame vine,I think thats what written on the tags!
Clare please correct me if I'm wrong!

Hi Don! They look great. Yes, you are right, except it is a Ipomoea cairica. The Mexican Flame Vine is Senecio confusus. I grew the Ipomoea cairica from seed and rooted a cutting for you. I also grew your Pandorea jasminoides vine from seed. The Mexican Flame Vine was sent to me by Linda in a recent trade. She sent me several rooted vines, and so I sent one on to you. My two aren't growing nearly as well as yours. You must have the magic touch!

Here's the mother Ipomoea cairica:

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I'm trying to get a list of the vines I need & this thread is great!
I want the fast & the furious.

b2b, sounds like you need Ipomoea indica, the perennial Morning Glory. Check out my vine albums for more pictures of my vines: http://www.picturetrail.com/jccorre

Clare, Can I come hide in your vines. I'm drooling over all the incredible things you have growing.

LOL! Thank you for the compliment. I have a bunch more vines in containers, and I have no idea where I'm going to put them all this spring. I end up growing a lot of vines together on one support. I guess the more, the merrier, as long as the colors don't clash!

Clare,I don't which is worse my spelling or my latin!!LOL!
Or my ignorance!!LOL,Glad I got you to keep me straight!!
Well they keep saying feed me feed me,so I give them a little food once a week to keep them quiet!LOLYour still the Queen of vines,b2b thinks so too!

Don, you are just perfect the way you are, and you are certainly not ignorant! We'll keep each other straight in our old age, which I hope is a long way off! As a matter of fact, you gave me the Ipomoea carnea, Morning Glory Bush, but unfortunately, it didn't make it. LOL! I don't know about my being the queen of vines, but I surely do enjoy them:-) If I am the queen of vines, then you are the king of bananas!

Check out this link for Ipomoea carnea: http://plantsdatabase.com/go/52996/Bush+Morning+Glory%2C+Morning+Glory+Tree%2C+Badoh+Negro%2C+Borrachero%2C+Matacabra_Ipomoea_carnea.html

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See,I told you I needed you to keep me straight!!
That didn't make it either!!
Well never fret I have another one rooted to send you this spring!

I'm a bad plant mommy! I do fine when the weather is on my side but not so good when the weather turns colder. Thanks, Don. You're a sweetie.

Clare, how far away from me are you? Do you ever get around here?

Bambi,

I was also curious on where Camarillo was located so I looked it up. Here is a link to a small map.

http://www.ci.camarillo.ca.us/maps/regionmp.html

Donna

I'm horrible at maps. Have I seen Camarillo on the way to Santa Barbara?

i want that morning glory of you alls too. Ipomoea cairica is pretty. i love purple pinkish stuff. mexican flame vine. i have heard of it but havent tried it.

i am also a vine freak. i love them. we just bought property so i will have room for them now. Yea!! i have been trying to find ipomoea indica but with no luck around here.

oh the carena looks like a great vine too. none of my things propergate after i get them to grow. how rude of them. hehe great vines.

Did I read someplace that this MG is the same one as Ipomoea Acuminata? Logee's sells it if it is the same one.

Clare,
in the picture labeled "Main Entrance" what is planted in
the black pots in the background? Is that a shelf?

Thanks,
a

Hi imzadi,
Come spring give me a holler and I'll send you a cutting,or if I have another one rooted,its yours!!

Bambi,
if memory serves me right, would guess Clare is about halfway between you and Santa Barbara.


Tropicman,
Would love to see your vines in the summer but it might be a bit of a trip!

Put me on the begger's list for any vine cuttings and I will try to find something that interests you to share back come spring.

arlene

Bambi, she is about 40 miles from you. Here is my favorite "how the heck far is it?" calculator.

http://www.symsys.com/~ingram/mileage/index.php

Will do Arlene,I have lots of vines,my whole property is surrounded in vines,2 kinds of honeysuckle and virginia creeper,grape vines,trumphet vines,golden hops.plus now I have about a dozen passie vines to try this year,come on spring!!!

Can I go on the beggar list too? Janice what a great link!
Bambi

Thank you!

I love vines! When winter comes everything looks so stark!

Hi Guys,

The Ipomoea indica is indeed the same as Ipomoea acuminata, which is a synonym. I actually had to spend hours ripping mine out. It got too big, and it was too aggressive for my taste. I had to spend too much time keeping it in bounds. It would send out long ropes of shoots along the ground, and it would send down roots any place where the ground was moist. It was beautiful, but it was a giant headache. So I don't have it anymore.

Arlene,
That's a six-foot retainer wall in the background. I have Plumerias in those black pots. I've since moved them off for the winter. Here they are:

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I just got the new Select Seeds catalog. They have so many beautiful vines. Seeds & plants. I love MG Grandpa Otts & Cup & Saucer Vine (they suggest you grow it with Spanish flag) I'm in vine heaven.
I don't know how to make a hyperlink but the website is www.selectseeds.com
So far, here are the ones I must have.....the Tobacco Lime Green, Cleodendrum Glry Bower, MG Grandpa Otts, Cup & Saucer Vine, Creeping Gloxinia Joan Lorraine. The prices seem fairly reasonable if you take 3 plants. Are these fast growers? I've never grown vines before. How close together should I put them? How long do seeds take? I need the instant gratification of seeing the plant but maybe I'll try some seeds too.

back2back,
I didn't mean to disparage Ipomoea indica because, if you want "fast and furious," that vine would be perfect as long as you are willing to do some maintanence.

MG Grandpa Ott is an annual vine, but it will reseed itself every year. The problem with growing annual vines is that you will see dead growth on your fence for part of the year until the new vines come in. I haven't grown those vines that you mentioned, but they should grow fairly quickly, especially if they are annual vines. I sort of avoid annuals, mostly because I'm lazy and don't want to clear them out every year!

Another vine that is a perennial vine in our area is Ipomoea alba, Moonflower vine. You can buy a pack of seeds at HD for around a $1. The flowers are large and white and fragrant and open at dusk. The flowers take about 30 seconds to open. It is amazing to stand there and watch them open.

Bambi,
Don't buy Grandpa Otts; I will send you some.

a

Thanks Clare, I didn't realize that they were annuals. I saw "Annual;tender perennial zone 9-11". What would be your choices for something that will look good year round. Is the tobacco an annual as well? I just saw a photo of Grandpa Otts on the PDB & it looks nothing like the one pictured in the catalog, which seems much darker. Here's my one vine. I don't know its name.

Gosh! That kind of looks like Ipomoea indica! Is it a perennial vine? Do the flowers fade to pink? The MG Grandpa Ott is definitely an annual vine, not a tender perennial vine. They die after flowering even in the warmest zones. Nicotiana alata 'Lime Green' is an annual, but Annie's Annual web site says that you can cut it back, and it will grow back. Here's the web site: http://www.anniesannuals.com/signs/n/nicotiana_alata_LG.htm

I think it is just a matter of personal preference. After all, you are the one who is going to have to look at it day in and day out so you should choose what pleases you.

There are so many vines that I love: Passifloras, Jasminum polyanthum, Bignonias, Thunbergias, Wisterias, Telosma cordata, Jasminum sambac, Hardenbergia, and the list goes on and on.

You should take a stroll through the garden center at Home Depot and see if anything strikes you as a "must-have."

Here's a picture of MG Grandpa Ott:

Arlene, I love some Grandpa Otts. When you get here you'll have to teach me how to propagate MG. I tried sticking the vine in water but no roots! Anyone grow Orchid Vine?

Bambi, Ipomoea indica, if that is what you have, roots easily in water. Just take cuttings about six to eight inches long, cut just below a leaf node. They should develop roots in a few weeks. You can also layer your vine by bringing a vine down to the ground and burying it at a leaf node.

Bambi...don't buy any MG seeds. I have more than enough to plant all of SoCal! I'll send you some! And I really don't think you're going to be happy with an annual, except you should have a longer growing season than we do.

Annuals will work in SoCal

I agree with Brinda. Annuals die after flowering and look ugly afterward and have to be removed. I made the mistake this past summer of letting an annual vine intertwine with a perennial vine and had to separate them once the annual was finished. I don't do annuals much any more!

No annuals for me. I never liked the concept of something that doesn't come back. I want it to grow & grow & grow & grow!

Hey b2b,your on the list as well,for the morning glory bush,