Hello there!
I recently was doing some work in our rented backyard and I just really want to know what this flowring tree thing is, and also a pretty vine that I found. I have looked intensely online and in my books and I have no idea what these two are! Monterey, CA zone 9.
The first one is the tree:
Here is the flowering part, pinkish purply color
Here is the leaf, pretty big with triangle like edges
Here is what it looks like right now, I would say it’s a flowering tree. Notice how tangly and gangly it looks. This is when it was cut back. This thing grows like a weed and it’s pretty invasive. I have 4 of these now, and they have grown extremely fast especially when it rained a lot the last month. The tree has spread, making little babies over our neighbors fence who says he has about 4 of them growing in his backyard now. This tree is located in Monterey, CA coastal climate, zone 9. I have scoured the internet looking for what it could be, and through my sunset garden books. Whatever it is, I don’t think it is favored because I can’t find it.
Here is the next plant. Again, I tried looking on the internet for any kind of “vine” nothing looks similar to what I’ve seen and it’s not even listed as best vines in the slide shows I’ve seen
Here it is at its bloom. Very pretty.
Here are the blooms in a row, their closed up and I think they open when they are ready, although I haven’t really been studying them because I recently found them while the flower tree was cut back.
And here is the vine, it’s pretty long, and it’s got these really cute curly cues.
This vine actually was uncovered from cutting back the flowering tree. If you look in the pictures where the bulbs are, the vine is getting tangled up in it. This vine is coming over another neighbors fence and is growing really long. I like it and want to know what it is.
Thank you!
