Any one here familiar with growing one of these? I saw one a couple of weeks ago blooming in Granbury, TX. It was spectacular. It also covered a lot of air space. The structure built for it to climb was quite tall. Would it behave itself and crawl along a pasture fence? Would the deer demolish it? What liabilities does it have if you attempt to grow it? Aggressive, invasive - that sort of thing. The local garden center has two containers of it for sale. I'm sorely tempted, but have never been around a growing plant.

Thanks for any info anyone can give on it.

You got me curious so I went in search. I thought this was what I had planted but I'm thinking not. Mine is trumpet creeper.

While looking, I found this https://aggie-horticulture.tam... which says your crossvine can spread by seed or sucker. And the bottom line

Deer will eat it.

Now after the reading I'm doing, I need to go rip mine out of the ground fast!
According to this blurb, Crossvine would be less invasive. https://outlook.live.com/mail/...
I'm going to let mine bloom this year (first time) and make sure of its' ID.

Thanks Kristi @pod. I'd actually found that A&M site and read it. The one in Granbury had grown well beyond what a deer could reach. It was growing on an arch probably 12-15' high or more in downtown Granbury. Couldn't see what construction material of the arch driving by because the vine completely covered it and in turn was completely covered in blooms. It looked like something you'd see in the Rose Bowl parade. That's how thick the blooms were.

I couldn't tell from the A&M page how hard the suckers would be to control. The seeds sound easy to germinate, but I don't know how quickly they would make a blooming vine.

Nothing like hearing first hand experience to find out the drawbacks and hard they are to manage.

I would agree and I am sincerely reconsidering keeping the trumpet creeper that I planted after reading and comparing it with the crossvine. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

In our Plants Database. Be sure to look at the pictures posted by Frostweed.

Cross Vine (Bignonia capreolata)

@pod - In our Plants Database. Nice pictures but check out the comments. Also see the size description.

Trumpet Vine (Campsis radicans)

tx_flower_child said:In our Plants Database. Be sure to look at the pictures posted by Frostweed.

Cross Vine (Bignonia capreolata)

I did. That fence in her yard in Arlington is something else! I'm thinking in Arlington deer are probably not an issue. That fence is forage height for a deer. I don't have too many problems with them, but the first time I grew daylilies they ended up eating them to oblivion when the drought settled in. They also gave me fits on some Red Oaks that I was growing from acorns. Eventually they grew tall enough they were above the munch line, but they will still browse on the leafy parts they can reach.

Her house is within the city of Arlington, so if the picture was taken there (don't remember) then I doubt that she has a deer problem.

Yep... I had toured the database and then on to other sites. That is what gave me second thoughts. Thanks....