I need advice on pruning Trumpet Vines (Humming Bird Vines). I have already cut the vine back to about an inch or two above ground, after it's first year of growth, last fall and mulched it. We had excessive snow this past winter. Will it come back, or have I killed it? I thought it was like my clematis, which I cut down each year.
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You can't kill a trumpet vine even when you try to. I live farther south than you and mine hasn't starting budding yet. If just a piece of the root survives, the plant will flourish.
It's not necessary to prune them to the ground. New growth comes off old stalks.
If it gets too big trim what you don't want. Tough plant to kill if you want too!
You said, "I thought it was like my clematis, which I cut down each year." Some clematis you do, others you don't cut back.
When I was a child we had a trumpet vine growing up the corner of our house. We never pruned it or cut it down.
Trumpet vines take over everything, even come up in our lawn. We are digging it out root by root. It is impossible to get rid of with weed killer etc.
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