Bower's Vine Leaves Limping
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5 months ago
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My Bower doesn't bloom
Comments (13)I bought my Bower Vine at Easter, 2003, and planted it by the fig -- thought it would look neat climbing up the tree. It had modest growth, some flowering, and was frost damaged that winter. In 2004 I replanted it along the South wall, and it did much better. This year it's outgrown the fan trellis, bloomed constantly since early spring, but has slowed somewhat this past week to a few flower clusters. Plenty of new buds, though, so I'm not worried. I've had to add two more trellises, one on either side; it also made friends with the Bottle Tree, so I'm letting it climb up a branch. It's mulched with cedar chips, watered deeply once a week, and gets a gallon of Peter's 20-20-20 water once a month. One of my few successes, so I love it. Zill...See MorePlease tell me if I have the right vine b4 I get another!
Comments (5)I agree with Jeanne......SAC is typically a very vigorous, fast to establish vine (as is C. virginiana). However, relying only the foliage of such a small plant may not be entirely reliable method of ID. Young plants will also produce juvenile foliage that is not entirely similar to mature, adult foliage. IME, SAC will produce lobed or semi-toothed young foliage while an immature vine. Your photos do not indicate the very pronounced serration or 'teeth' of virginiana and a number of fully entire leaves as well so I am inclined more toward terniflora. But time will tell :-)...See MoreStreptocarpus - limp leaves!
Comments (2)Claire- reduce the water. They need to be very dry before you water again. I water when they start looking a bit limp. Since it is 2 years old - it should be a large plant. I think they do not bloom well if they are that old. It is a time to disassemble the plant, cut the wedges with new offshoots for potting and toss old tired overgrown part. If you grow Iris in a garden - you know what I mean. Divide, trash an old center, replant new growth. Irina...See MoreAnyone grow Sweet Autumn Clematis/Virgin's Bower?
Comments (10)Well, I've spent a fair amount of time fighting honesuckle and multiflora rose to keep it out of the woods on properties I've worked at. Didn't realize until I Googled it that the native wild clematis, VB and Sweet Autumn Clematis were different, and that the non native one was invasive. It's the smelly one I want. The wild clematis is not showy enough to waste space on it in my tiny, tiny, tiny urban downtown row house yard. I don't feel there's much danger of my stuff invading a pristine natural area, the best luck a seed from my yard would have is to land on some vacant urban corner. I haven't read anything about the clematis being a big problem around here, but maybe that's because it is not very commonly grown or sold in nurseries. I don't mind cutting back the upper foliage, to keep it trained along the fence. My neighbors have a grape vine trellis that they have to keep after, but the roots don't wander, just the tops. But after that rose experience, I just don't want something with root suckers, because then I have to go into my neighbors yard to pull the stuff up, and it risks disrupting things, in my yard and hers. I don't want to accidentally uproot her tomatoes or something like that. Maybe I should go with a regular clematis. I sure do LOVE, LOVE the smell of the Sweet Autumn Clematis, and the flowers are pretty too. It smells like baby powder. I have such a tiny yard, I can never decide what to plant, because I am torn between wanting stuff to eat, smell and look pretty. I had to tear out my beloved crab apple which has all three qualities, because it was overrun with rust. I didn't treat it at first because the Cooperative Extension folks said it was just "cosmetic." But eventually the whole thing became infected and distorted and covered with the stuff. And I realized that the soil where all the leaves fell would now be infected for years to come. I finally put the poor thing out of its misery. Now there's a huge hole in my garden and I can't decide what to put there. So far I am replacing the tree with a red ninebark, but I don't know about along the fence behind it and on either side....See Morewestes Zone 9b California SF Bay
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