This vine did very poorly for me this summer. The plants only got about 3 inches high and never showed any tendency to bloom. Does anyone grow this well outside? Does it need a lot of heat? I might try bringing it in next year.
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Sadly, my experience with this one follows the text to the letter. I might have had better luck growing it in the "stove"
LOL
Beth, I have a white one that comes back on it's own and does quite well without my help. It's not one of my favorites, nothing impressive about it!! But it reseeds and I just let it go. It was supposed to be red, I wanted it for the hummers.
If you can grow it in your zone, I should be able to....
maybe I'll get it started early in the spring?
It definitely does do better at the end of the summer. Try direct sowing some if you have enough. Do you want some white seeds? I think the red and white together would look pretty!
I can't even get the red ones going for now, so I don't want to "kill" any others! The red ones were just killed by frost before blooming. I'll try some in containers next year. Are yours annuals that re-seed?
LOL!!! Annuals for me here in cold Philly!!
Apparently this vine is getting to be common in Florida. I haven't grown one, but after reading about it on this link, it sounds like a nice vine to grow:
http://www.floridata.com/ref/I/ipom_qua.cfm
Sounds like it would grow well in Florida!
I got one in a trade , I am sure it was a volunteer seedling it was mixed in with some plants . It took over evything !! Grew up my cannas and bent them over. It was crazy but pretty so I left it . I am sure I will be pulling seedlings by the millions next spring . I may be sorry I left it to grow.
Ladyblues
They seem to love the weather here. I planted 8 vines, and once I got them in the ground, they just took off. I'll plant the same number of vines next year, but spread them out a bit.
ladyblues1965 is right, they'll grow up anything! This is a planter hook in front of a window - about 2' away from the fence!
They were mix colors, but I do have seeds for just white blooms I bought a year or so ago.
I'll send you some seeds Beth, if you'd like some.
Oooh! I really like the look of that vine, Nichole! I am getting really interested in the smaller blooming MG vines like Cardinal Creeper, Orange Noah, Cypress Vine, Apricot Candy, etc. They are really rampant growers here! My Cardinal Creeper and Moon Flower vines just went nuts on my side fence this year. First time I ever grew both of them.
Now ... I don't know whether I should even tell y'all this but ... I planted several seeds for the red blooming Cypress Vine in with the others mentioned above and it grew so fast and was clinging to everything that I panicked and riped them all out! (I know ... I know ... bad MG fan!!!) I saw it literally strangling everything in it's path. I decided if I grow them again (and I am going to do it very soon) ... it will be in a pot that I have Trumpet Creeper in. That vine is going dormant now and I need something else in the pot. I have a fan shaped trellis inside the pot for the vines to grow on and thought it might be the perfect place to plant Cypress Vine. I have a few seeds of the red I can share if you want to trade for some white, Nichole? (Of course, you probably already have plenty, huh? lol)
Beth - Do you need more seeds, too?
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The Cypress vine is naturalized here in Lower Alabama, growing in the roadside ditches and vacant land. It is interesting to see how massive it can grow when it finds a particularly hospitible site. This late summer, in my neighborhood, I witnessed the local utility company use oneof their bucket trucks to rescue one of their utility poles and angled support wire from a very vigorous Cypress vine which had reached the overhead wires..... a tad larger than your plant's 3 inches, Beth!
I think the heat with ample moisture must be one of the keys to it's success here. I have had it struggle in my yard where it doesn't get much water.
Arlan
I've grown some of the red in a pot and wasn't impressed at all. The biggest plant reached 4", and had three flowers in total. After seeing these photos, I'm actually thinking of trying some in my garden. I just love the foliage...
Becky - I'll send you some of the white seeds this week. You don't need to send any of the red . . . I'm going to grow out some seed from the cypress flowers that were multi-color - just to see what happens (I know the mix color is a fluke, but I just gotta see!). If these seeds grow like the parent seeds did, then I'll have plenty red seeds!
I'm at work right now, so I'll post a picture of some multi-color blooms when I get home.
Maybe I just need to try again. I still have some of the red seeds left. For some reason they just didn't do well for me this year.
Here's one of the multi-color blooms:
Ok. That one doesn't look as good enlarged.
Let's try this one:
That's the first time I've seen multi-colored blooms on these....wow! I hope you saved the seeds.
I saved seed from 2. I had tagged more, but the vines go SO thick, I could't find the straws anymore! (Next time I won't use pink straws!). But, I'm hoping since the vines are starting to shut down, that I'll find some of the other straws, and that all the seeds hadn't dropped from them yet.
Beth or anyone. . .
If the frost doesn't get this particular vine I'll have HUNDREDS of seeds. I do have quite a few from a couple of other vines that always self seed but most I had to rip out to get to some of my MGs.
This particular vine is ONE SINGLE VINE and is from only about 3 or 4 seeds that I found growing in Acapulco, and let me tell you - this baby is doing some kind of climbing and blooming. The photos that I'm showing are from what I call my 'mini-jungle' and most of it is going to go away next year. It is surrounded by quite a few Brugmansias, Castor Bean Plants, Cassia Alata Plants, a Sesbania punicea (Chinese Rattlebox Tree) and a couple of Ipomoea carnea Trees, including one that is still leaning from our last high winds. Plus a few Hardy Hibiscus plants that are underneath all of this 'mess' that I hope will survive.
The Tree that this vine is covering is an 'Orchid Tree' Bauhinia x blakeana that isn't even supposed to grow for me in my zone. I'll never see blooms, but I just love the leaves. It is 5-years old, so I guess it wants to live in Texas.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/31008/
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/61705/
I explain this so you can see exactly what this vine is covering.
Amazing what one itty-bitty seed can do!
Also, I have found that the Ipomoea quamoclit doesn't bloom for me in my zone until mid to late summer and will bloom until the frost. This particular Acapulco quamoclit didn't start to bloom until about 3 weeks ago. What is the deal with the plants from this tropical paradise that doesn't bloom until late?
Also, I was growing a Pink I. quamoclit, but when our weather dipped to 39 a couple or so weeks ago it killed that plant but didn't bother the Reds.
Ok, just had to share these photos of my 'mini-jungle'. . .
Emma
Another view
Closer view of the vine
This shot will show you how the Butterflies LOVE this vine
Now, you can see what the I. quamoclit really can do.
Neat huh!
Emma
Wooaw such beautiful leafs I´ve never seen before :o)
~Sylvia
Pretty cool, Emma! It confirms for me what I had suspected ... that this little vine can get quite dense in growth and IS capable of strangling other plants if it grows on them. It's cool that the butterflies and probably hummers love it so! I shall try growing it again ... in a container! :-)
Oh, my. I guess it's good that I'll be giving them more breathing room at my mother's place next year! And I think I'll need to expand the space I was going to grow the multi-colored bloom seeds in my own yard!
I love your jungle!!! It reminds me of the morning glory "caves" I used to play in when I was a kid.
Emma - The plants that are collected from an area that is more tropical have become acclimated to a longer growing season...so they continue to build up energy reserves throughout the summer and finally bloom later on the season...it stays so warm where you collected them from that they are accustomed to the luxury of the continued long warm growing seasons...
The pink is a dilute of the red and dilutes are often not as vigorous or hardy as the darker pigmented plants that they are derived from..
TTY,...
Ron
mine reseed thier selves each year and get out of control, but i love them
I got a couple of these vines growing from seed this year--one white and one red--hoping the hummers would like them, but they bloomed here almost too late for the birds to enjoy them.
They do seem to take over a garden space and, as they grow here, there is a lot of green leafiness per tiny red bloom...maybe they got too much nitrogen or not enough sun or both...?
Byndeweed--I enjoyed reading the text from your antique book...very interesting...
I planted cypress vine seeds to cover a stump in my back yard. It took it's job verrry seriously. lol Lots of blooms, and now lots of seeds, no watering to speak of (except rain). It did wonderfully.
Anne
Ron . . .
Late reply here, but thanks for your explanation about why the seeds from Tropical climates take so long to bloom for us.
Emma
