Hello,

Yes I plan on it being large. But I basically just want it to live. I
am glad to hear that it can be used for bonsai because that gives me some
reason for collecting it! Thank you Jim for the advice. And Iris, I wasnt
planning on using Trumpet Vine for its flowers. It would be nice if the flowers grow
small on it, but if not, then I'll remove them if it is ever good enough to
show. But thats looking waaayyy too far in the future. Like I said, as of
now, I am just doing the research to see how I am going to handle the vine. From
the advice of two people, I plan to collect it within about a year and a
half. I think I will either chop half of its roots now or in spring when I do the
chop- or both. Then like Jim said, remove it next winter. Hopefully this
coming summer, I will get some good growth on it. Does anyone else have
experience with collecting this species? Thanx! I'll keep you all posted.

Sam


Sam, it's on my list, but I haven't tried it yet. I can see no
reason it would not make a nice bonsai. It has large compound
leaves, though, so it would have to be a fairly large one.

I'd also take a sharp shovel and cut half way around the root --
maybe even this fall. Cut the other half in the spring, then dig
it NEXT winter.

Please keep me posted. My woods are full of this stuff -- as are
my pasture fence lines. You can be my guinea pig. ;-)

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Let us spend
one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the
track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the
rails. -- Henry David Thoreau

To begin with, the flowers are much too large.
Iris,

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