Chelle, I totally agree with you on trumpet vines. I have been hacking off and digging out runners for years and yet it is still here. Sometimes I wonder if I took a torch to it and burned the ends when they pop up out of the ground if it would put a end to this awful vine.
Anna would you consider a honeysuckle vine? I have both dropmore scarlet and major wheeler to me they are much nicer than the trumpet vine which starts blooming later, my honeysuckle start blooming early and continue until frost for a very long bloom season. A bonus is we have hummingbirds feeding on the honeysuckle as soon as it starts blooming until it finishes. I remember when I first had the trumpet vine it took years until it bloomed, the honeysuckle bloom much sooner.
