This is a nice vine for covering an eyesore. It becomes huge. It also is covered with small pollinating wasps when it flowers, so there ...Read Moreis some environmental value to the vine. I don't know of anything that uses the berries. It can reseed but not prolifically so. It also can be started from cuttings.I have a lot of Clematis viorna vines that grow through this large vine on an old wooden fence. It is reasonably attractive. A much better choice than the Ampelopsis brevipedunculata but if I was starting over I would probably choose something a bit more restrained. Use it where you want to smother something with greenery then stand back.
In southeast Nebraska, this vine, and trumpet vine, can very quickly become somewhat invasive. So plant it where you can control it. But...Read More here in north central Colorado neither ampelopsis nor trumpet vine can become invasive mostly due, I think, to lack of water in both summer and winter. Needs some water every week in summer, and a few times in winter, or it will get to be a couple of feet long in summer, then die back in winter.
[ New ] Will not set berries unless watered frequently, at least every three days, preferably every other day via a drip system. Easy to propagate from seeds, but seeds cannot be sown directly in fall; seeds will not survive winter in Colorado. You must stratify in refrigerator ~60 days, then sow after last frost.
I grow this one up and over my pergola and love it! I appreciate the finely cut foilage and the colored berries come fall. It reseeds o...Read Moreccasionally and provides dense shade cover quickly.
In SE Nebraska, spaced at 15", forms dense wall 12' high in three years. Excellent for hiding ugly propane tanks and decrepit buildings. ...Read MoreBirds and squirrels refuse to eat the berries, and horses refuse to eat the leaves, so it may not be wildlife friendly. But dense plantings attract hordes of insects and hordes of wasps that prey on the insects. Attracts swarms of a strangely marked fly that acts like a bee, but is just a fly. I manage vine to climb, not creep, and it works out very nicely.
This is a handsome green vine with finely cut leaves. I get an occasional self-sown seedling. The vine is easy to propogate by cuttings....Read More Tiny insignificant white flowers but the orange berries in the fall are attractive. I have heard that birds like it but I have never observed anything eating them.
This is a nice vine for covering an eyesore. It becomes huge. It also is covered with small pollinating wasps when it flowers, so there ...Read More
In southeast Nebraska, this vine, and trumpet vine, can very quickly become somewhat invasive. So plant it where you can control it. But...Read More
I grow this one up and over my pergola and love it! I appreciate the finely cut foilage and the colored berries come fall. It reseeds o...Read More
In SE Nebraska, spaced at 15", forms dense wall 12' high in three years. Excellent for hiding ugly propane tanks and decrepit buildings. ...Read More
This is a handsome green vine with finely cut leaves. I get an occasional self-sown seedling. The vine is easy to propogate by cuttings....Read More
Foliage is finely cut and makes a great covering for walls, trellises, arbors and/or fences.