Comments on: strolling through the garden/2020/05/07/strolling-through-the-garden/various and sundry notionsFri, 08 May 2020 13:42:00 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Marc Beebe/2020/05/07/strolling-through-the-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-1406Fri, 08 May 2020 13:42:00 +0000/?p=5031#comment-1406In reply to whbeebe.

Wow. Amazing how a change in environment can be so powerful. Up here they wouldn’t last a year. But then it is hard to get anything to grow here with our severe climate extremes.

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]]>By: whbeebe/2020/05/07/strolling-through-the-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-1405Fri, 08 May 2020 13:25:08 +0000/?p=5031#comment-1405In reply to Marc Beebe.

While trumpet vine is native to the southeast US, it’s like kudzu with flowers. I’ve had to pull it out of our yard twice while living here. If left unchecked, it will overrun everything and nearly kill other flowers in the garden. I pulled a forty foot creeper out of one of my trees this past winter, that was as thick as a rake handle at the base where I first found it. And I’m still pulling out seedlings it dropped from last growing season. There are better native flowers to attract hummingbirds.

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]]>By: Marc Beebe/2020/05/07/strolling-through-the-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-1404Fri, 08 May 2020 12:49:26 +0000/?p=5031#comment-1404You should be able to grow trumpet vine there, which hummingbirds love. And who doesn’t love hummingbirds? :)

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