Need help IDing this fast grower

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  1. Clay_22

    Clay_22 In Flower

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    unknown plant ( photo / image / picture from Clay_22's Garden )
    This plant was given to me a few years back and all he told me it attracts butterflies & hummingbirds. First few years after I planted not much growth but the following year it took over the bed. It likes to root spread by the stem touching the ground. Yet to see any kind of flower that would attract anything. So I've moved it on it's own and I still get new growth in previous location.

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  3. carolyn

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    Wisteria. It will grow exponentially before any flowers appear. Look in calinromania's garden for the pictures of his apt. covered in it. It is beautiful, but I wouldn't want it.

    Well, I tried to find it and link it, but the pictures wouldn't load for me..so, I am assuming he removed them. Sorry.
     
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    almost looks like something I have. I'll have to compare it in the a.m. I thought it was a trumpet vine but I may be wrong.
     
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    Netty Chaotic Gardener Plants Contributor

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    It does look like a Trumpet Vine, but also like Wisteria. Either way, they are both very vigorous growers.
     



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    Oh, I didn't think about trumpet vine. Do you know what color it is supposed to be? trumpet vine has orange flowers and wisteria has lavender ones.
     
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    Both vines are lovely but very strong, vicious growers. They take over and, I read, could pull down the wall of a house. Unless it is grown in a strong container and nothing is allowed to touch the ground or attach to anything to climb and travel, I would get rid of it.
     
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    I once saw a trumpet vine planted at the foot of a telephone pole It was beautiful! Not sure what the lineman thought though.
     
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    Thanks looking at pics I'm leaning towards the trumpet vine
     
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    This is my trumpet vine. They do get pokey about bloomng, but once they start, they will bloom every year. And they will come up all over the place. It looks a LOT like your vine. I also have wisteria, and my wisteria leaves have smooth edges, not serrated. It needs something big to climb on as it can get over 30 feet tall. Wisteria can easily double that.




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    Well it finally flowered this year. The Orange trumpet like flowers have sealed the ID as a trumpet vine
     
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    I have a few of them. We keep it clipped back to the shape we want and any suckers that come up we dig up and pot. Sometimes we give them away and sometimes we sell them.

    It's a good thing.
     
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    It's very pretty and attracts hummingbirds, but be careful. Those are highly invasive, fiercely growing vines. Don't let them grow too close to any important structure like a house or telephone poles and keep a close eye on it.
     
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    I was just our in the back veggie garden. It has Trumpet vine running over the arbor. I saw so soo many hummingbirds visiting it that I couldn't believe it. No wonder I only see one at a time at my little feeders, they are all in the back. They always seem to look right into my face as if to talk to me.
     
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