I have two very mature trumpet vines on the north end of the property that are loaded with blooms every year. I've noticed that around the trellis there are volunteer plants comming up in the yard and in fall the vines produce a ton of seed pods. Since I want to start a few vines in the back yard I'm thinking of starting some from seed inside the house. Then again I'm thinking of transplanting some volunteer plants to the back yard. They sure attract the humming birds. What would you think on getting these vines started? Roy

Sounds like fun, i would try both:)

The surest way to get more trumpet vine is to try and eradicate it! My experience at least

@jvdubb How true !

Do you know if they are a native or exotic kind? If they are not the native kind, I wouldn't cultivate them. According to USDA plants, only the native kind grows in IL, so that's a good sign.

Sounds like you should be able to dig up some suckers/volunteers with roots from the base of the mama.

I agree with Jennifer!

Any plant that attracts hummers is a winner with me!!! Go for it and let us know how the "weeds" (oops I mean trumpet vines) work out!!!

PS As a native Texan living in Oman for now, we have the wild orange-red trumpet vines growing here....they are beautiful but the heat of the summer (which can reach over 120 degrees F), I think, keeps them in check.....unfortunately I have not seen hummers here, though sun birds do abound....they're tiny, of irridescent plummage, long curved beaks for getting nectar, and unlike hummers do not fly backwards but do perch.....they, too, are a pleasure to watch and I have a small backyard that has lots of blooming vines that they adore especially the golden bells...........

we had trumpet vine in our last home northwest of houston, tx i'm guessing it was "wild" but i'm not sure
the house was 35 years old, had an established lawn but had trumpet vine "volunteering" everywhere... the more you pulled up or "poisoned" the more came behind it (even with a paintbrush and brushkiller) every flower bed, rose bush, tree, had it growing up it

i will never plant a vining plant never never never

we also had 6 ft tall four oclocks everywhere

i was soooooooo glad to move.....12 years of those battles were enough..

Rita

zippy1
I do plant some Ivy, the plain green (in pots) and some variegated in the ground, but I feel like you about most vining plants. They are just too hard to control a lot of the time.

Welcome to ATP, Rita. I agree about the hummingbird vine but find Class 2 and 3 clematises as easy as a vine can get. Not so with the entire "montana" clan, which can become enormous. I have more than 100 clematises and would have yanked them if they were a problem.

I battled the evil, but beautiful, Houttuynia cordata 'Chameleon', for many years and finally won the war but it was a horrible problem.