Trumpet vine is an invasive weed! It is sold at nurseries and they don't mention this. Don't plant it unless you are prepared to have it everywhere in your yard. I have had it migrate from the front of the house to the backyard. There is no stopping it's advance. It will even climb the bricks of your house and crack the mortar. The seed pods are similar to milkweed and will burst and float seeds everywhere.
Yes, it is pretty and yes, it attracts hummingbirds, but let it do it in someone else's yard, not yours. Leave it at the nursery.
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Good advice. I planted one at a former home. When it became so large and invasive I wanted to be rid of it my husband hired a company to come in and dig it out. They dug the entire flower bed down four feet below ground level. The following spring it came back as if it had never been touched. Very pretty but very invasive.
Depends on where you live. I live in the desert of Nevada, and you're lucky to get anything to grow let alone have such beautiful flowers in the heat of the summer here.
Hey, I can't find my pic of a Trumpet Vine. If I haven't totally messed the upload button, Here's a pic I took with my Digital Microscope, of a Lady Bird Beetle larva catching an Aphid for lunch...lol
Hello ! I don't think it is a lady bird larva, lady bug larvae are big larvae. They are nearly 1 cm long, longer than the future lady bird beetle they will become. They are black with orange spots.
The trumpet vine is far from being a weed. The only time 1 would have such complaints is if they did plant it without taking the time to look into how to care for it and how to control it. It needs to be tended to like any garden but most people who plant this particular type of plant do so intending it to cover a structure as it is a creeper vine that climbs up whatever structure you have it planted against.
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