Exotic Love Vine (Ipomoea lobata) This plant is known by many names including Exotic Love Vine, Firecracker Vine, and Spanish Flag Vine. The most striking feature of this vigorous climber is the unusual flower spikes. The tubular flowers open along a 6- to 8-inch raceme ranging in color from bright yellow to fire red.
When it comes to flowering vines, we northern gardeners (zones 6 and colder) have relatively few choices. Clematis, perhaps the best flowering vine around, thankfully features high on this restricted list. Trumpet-creeper (Campsis) and Wisteria are only reliable in the warmest regions of zones 5 or 6. Our last choice are the twining honeysuckles of the genus Lonicera. While perhaps not as ...
Also known as bluevine, climbing milkweed, dog’s-collar, Enslen’s vine, peavine, sandvine, smooth anglepod, or smooth swallow-wort, honeyvine milkweed is aggressive and invasive.
Vine-Cut Treatment One of the most annoying parts of vine removal is the fact that vines rarely grow upwards on their own, but rather against your trees or other large plants. The cut-vine method makes it possible to treat a whole plant with an intense herbicide without spraying it all over both your favorite tree and the invasive vine.
The vines can grow twenty feet in the course of a single year, and they readily take root at stem nodes along the length of the vine, where new shoots then sprout. But Virginia creeper really prefers to grow upwards. The plant tolerates shade and can often be found growing beneath trees, but it reaches high for the sunshine.
This amazing colorful vine is grown extensively as a landscaping shrub and potted plant throughout much of the tropics and the warm temperate and subtropics throughout the world.