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| I need a shade loving / hummingbird loving vine? Is there one? I'm zone 5 & this flower bed gets VERY little sun.
Jodie |
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- Posted by peachymomo 9b (My Page) on Tue, Sep 14, 10 at 18:38
| Depending on how much shade you have these might work: Campsis radicans - Common Trumpet Creeper Lonicera ‘Mandarin’ - Privet Honeysuckle Wisteria sinensis - Chinese Wisteria But those are just from a search engine (zone 5, vine, shade, hummingbird attractor) I'd check with a local gardener to be sure they will actually do well, and if it's very deep shade they probably won't. It's hard to find a flowering vine that will grow in full shade, and hummers like flowers. Boston Ivy and Porcelain Berry will grow in full shade in your zone, but I doubt they'd attract hummingbirds. |
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- Posted by karyn1 MD 7 (bhkalen@aol.com) on Fri, Sep 17, 10 at 8:59
| I don't know about the honeysuckles but the campsis radicans doesn't bloom well in shade. The shaded stems of my Amethyst Falls wisteria don't bloom that well either. |
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- Posted by river_crossroads 8b Central Louisiana (My Page) on Fri, Sep 17, 10 at 13:34
| From an old thread in the GW Hummngbird Garden forum: RE: Hummingbird-Attracting Vine for Shade? I have 2 honeysuckles: Lonicera pericyclemenum 'Harlequin' and Lonicera serotina 'Florida' that are doing wonderful in mostly shade. Hope that helps you. End of post. A second thread has a wonderful name but all the vines I see in it would take part sun/part shade & are probably of no use to you with mostly shade. I'm including it in case there are non-vine shade plants that might interest you. From GW Hummingbird Garden forum: Shade Loving Plants for Hummingbirds Please update us here if you find a vine that works. I might want it, too, someday. |
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| Not a vine, but I've had phlox in the shade this year, and the hummers just LOVED it. |
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