Trumpet vine

Do you guys think it is invasive I guess it can be if not cared for Like most plants.I got in a argue with somebody about it .This girl's grama wanted some to plant up a old tree .She said it wasn't a good idea.Speaking of invasive plants last Sept I picked Virgina Creeper from the bush I also got poison Ivy I never knew what it looked liked before I got it and the ccreeper planted around our fence This spring we have to dig them out.We had poisonivy 1 month It's sure not nice.

Invasive has nothing to do with whether you care for it or not...if a plant is aggressive and runs wild in your garden, that doesn't necessarily make it invasive (and this aggressive behavior is what can sometimes be kept in check if you prune regularly). Invasive means that it can spread into natural areas (not a cultivated garden) where it multiplies and spreads and chokes out native plants. Some plants are both aggressive and invasive, but some plants that run rampant in the garden may not survive without regular watering, fertilizing, etc so they wouldn't be invasive. As far as trumpet vine, I know it's a problem in the southern part of the US, but as you get farther north I'm not sure if it's as much of a problem. Here in the US most of our states maintain lists of plants that are considered invasive, I would imagine you would have something similar in Canada so the best thing to do is check there and see if it's listed as invasive in your area.

Tell me please, does this look like your Trumpet Vine-
http://www.missouriplants.com/Redopp/Campsis_radicans_page.html

We had a trumpet vine in Ct. which was engaged in pulling down the garage. A cable on the other side held the garage up. It will keep sending up new starts into the lawn so invades everywhere.

I know my mother had one growing up the side of her house wood siding The Nursery were I worked came and cut it all down for the cuttings It grew again the next yearI'm trying to grow mine around a old tree.So it won't destroy anything elseI like the humming birds that are artacted to it.I'm sorry but I guess you could say it's invasive here too Have you seen the purple one It's nice.

A nursery came out and cut it down for the cuttings so they could propagate it presumably to sell it? Interesting. Campsis radicans spreads by underground runners and any vines that touch the ground will probably root so my bet is all their cuttings survived. It is certainly vigorous.

Although not classified formally as an invasive species by Canada to the best of my knowledge, it's way out of its native range where you've planted it and has been classified as a Weed of the Northeast because it is definitely aggressive and has displayed invasive tendencies.

If you are planting it because you like the hummers that come to visit it, there are other species that are better behaved that wouldn't be nearly as challenging to control or eradicate.

Agressive yes, but it works for me to create abarrier between my yard and the neighbors, both sides and back. I may have the only green area within the block and I have used both campsis radicans and madame glt to create these barriers along with boughanvilla, cats claw, carolina jessamine, thunbergia grandiflora, cork screw vine, and timber bamboo. For my reward: 4 species of hummingbirds, southwestern cardinals, multiple varieties of finches, mockingbirds, 4 species of doves, and multiple other birds. So invassive and agressive to one person may just be what someone else wants.

If you want a plant to invade--you have it. The birds are a bonus.

Mine sends up an occasional runner in a flower bed or the lawn,but I just mow it down or pull it.If you plant it,just kep an eye on it.Lynn

I tell every person that asks or mentions Trumpet Vine not to plant it because you will never get rid of it! My parents had one for years until they finally cut it down because it broke the trellis/pergola it was on. It didn't go away tho, it just continued to come up all over the place. The worst thing about it tho is that it would always come up in the middle of another plant which made it impossible to get totally out unless you dug them both up. I panic any time I find a seedling in my beds!

Trumpet Vine is a nightmare in my garden. My dad had some on an old Rose of Sharon which was dying and it looked great. But it spread into the yard and what was then a raspberry patch. This was probably about 20 years ago. He wanted to kill it but I convinced him to leave it since it's pretty when it flowers. Boy do I regret that now! It seemed to be controlled for years but then when he died that part of the garden sat untouched for 5 years. I'm now trying to reclaim it and I can pull and chop and chop some more and it still comes up. And like what someone said, in the middle of other plants. It totally takes over the rhubarb every year. I accidentally bought two yellow ones (I thought they were something else) but I read a suggestion to cut the bottom out of the pots and plant them pot and all. It's been 3 years and it hasn't spread a bit.

I can't believe this is an aggressive plant....I can't get it to grow!!! I think it's beautiful, and would like to have some for the Hummingbirds, but no luck.

Your good luck is that it hasn't grown! But like children, we always want to learn the hard way. ;)

I coveted Trumpet Vine and finally put it in maybe 13 years ago. For 10 years it was well-behaved, but didn't flower as much as I had hoped (it wasn't it full sun) so I pulled it out. Somehow that last year was the year it chose to invade. The roots are tenacious, so it isn't easy to pull out by hand. That means that when I spot it while I'm walking around the yard, I can't just yank it. And if you break it off, it just grows back. So it is something I have to make a point of returning to with weeder in hand. This year, three years after removing the mother plant, I have probably pulled out 20 plants. Many more in prior years.

I can't say I wouldn't plant it again if I had the right location, but I'd think long and hard first!