Don't Plant This In Your Yard

[@lindaannb]

My in-laws had a trumpet vine on a small outbuilding on their farm. It literally tore the building apart over time. When we moved into our current home, there was a sizable vine on our house. We immediately cut it down and put herbicide on the stump but it kept coming up over a large area for many years. The flowers are gorgeous, though.

[@gardeninginmyyard]

good idea I don't know why I thought I could contain it in this little space

[@joannafernandes9395]

I had the same thing from my neighbour that kept sending shoots from under the fence on my lawn… I have to keep cutting it . I let it be for a month and it took over my side like a flu.

[@gardeninginmyyard]

Yes it grows very fast I think mowing with a lawn mower is the only way to control it

[@plhatfield56]

We moved into a place that had these growing on the sides of the yard. I hate these and have been fighting them for years. They climb everywhere including up the trees around them. I can see the blooms way up in the trees and it kills them slowly. Cutting them just makes them grow more as he is pointing out! Truly invasive.

[@gardeninginmyyard]

I wish I never would planted them and I am just getting starting keeping them under control. It seems they a foot or more from each strand every day

[@cathyplantlover2862]

I have them in plastic barrels all over and not one escaped on me yet, the drainage holes I made are on the side and NOT on the bottom...

[@gardeninginmyyard]

Very good idea..

[@elainewashington3004]

Extremely invasive. Difficult to eradicate!😮

[@gardeninginmyyard]

I completely agree wish I would never planted it

[@drewsample9610]

not invasive in the traditional sense as it's a native. aggressive is a more accurate term.

[@elainewashington3004]

@@drewsample9610 When I get them twenty feet away and growing out of my concrete fountain I think of that as invasive!

[@gardeninginmyyard]

@@drewsample9610 aggressive is a very good description