03-24-2008, 07:22 PM
Clerodendrums grow GREAT from cuttings, too. I've had my trimmings take without rootone or anything.
Liz, all the vines I mentioned are ones I've bought in Hilo, either at Paradise Plants or Garden Exchange, nothing rare. However, a month or two ago I went looking for some vine action and there was very little available. They told me to come back in the spring.
Lilikoi's were in stock though.
Just don't buy the pink flowering passiflora that's known as banana poke, because it drops seeds (as fruits), they all sprout, and it's invasive.
There's a red-flowering passiflora I got at GE last month that was a hybrid, meaning it can't reproduce from seed. Passionflower can get out of control in the tropics, so I ask questions before I adopt one.
Thunbergia, for instance, is gorgeous, but it's invasive. Go to Akaka Falls and see. It's safe to plant if it doesn't have jungle/forest to escape into. Huapala (pyrostegia venusta), is another pretty vine that's way aggressive. Be careful if you decide to plant it. I had one that practically ate my house and yard.
Another vine I've bought here is carolina jessamine, with small yellow flowers. There are some pretty allamandas coming out now too, a blush color that's really lovely. The yellow ones will climb tall trees; the magenta ones are slightly more restrained. They don't "vine" as nicely as some because they don't hold on by tendrils. They weave in and out, sometimes needing guidance.
Ed to add to watch out for climbing woodrose and morning glory. Very very hard to control and self-propagating like crazy. Woodrose flowers are lovely but it just smothers others plants.
Liz, all the vines I mentioned are ones I've bought in Hilo, either at Paradise Plants or Garden Exchange, nothing rare. However, a month or two ago I went looking for some vine action and there was very little available. They told me to come back in the spring.
Lilikoi's were in stock though.
Just don't buy the pink flowering passiflora that's known as banana poke, because it drops seeds (as fruits), they all sprout, and it's invasive.
There's a red-flowering passiflora I got at GE last month that was a hybrid, meaning it can't reproduce from seed. Passionflower can get out of control in the tropics, so I ask questions before I adopt one.
Thunbergia, for instance, is gorgeous, but it's invasive. Go to Akaka Falls and see. It's safe to plant if it doesn't have jungle/forest to escape into. Huapala (pyrostegia venusta), is another pretty vine that's way aggressive. Be careful if you decide to plant it. I had one that practically ate my house and yard.
Another vine I've bought here is carolina jessamine, with small yellow flowers. There are some pretty allamandas coming out now too, a blush color that's really lovely. The yellow ones will climb tall trees; the magenta ones are slightly more restrained. They don't "vine" as nicely as some because they don't hold on by tendrils. They weave in and out, sometimes needing guidance.
Ed to add to watch out for climbing woodrose and morning glory. Very very hard to control and self-propagating like crazy. Woodrose flowers are lovely but it just smothers others plants.