I let this grow along my side railing when we first moved into our house not knowing what it was. Worse mistake I could make. Minimal monarchies but a ton, a ton of flies are attracted to the strong smelling flowers. Also the wasps found it too. The vines continue to defy my weeding, mulching and chokes out my other plants. Don't do it! You will regret this plant for all eternity
Oh no!! Thanks for sharing your experience with it. You’re definitely pushing me towards staying on top of it as best I can. It truly does push about through extremely thick mulch layers. I still don’t dislike it as much as Bermuda grass though. I’m finding the best success by heavily and densely planting many plants where it exits. I have one area in my backyard where I filled the areas with tons of flowers, sunflowers, carrots, strawberries, radishes. Everything is so densely planted the Honeyvine milkweed is having a hard time getting established this year. Then I have another bed in my front yard full of roses that I’m allowing to grow dense and thick together and I’m having less issues with the Honeyvine milkweed in that area as well. I think dense dense planting as dense as you can go is key. There will still be some need to weed it out but won’t be as bad.
I just discovered this vine❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I'm in Ohio as well
I let this grow along my side railing when we first moved into our house not knowing what it was. Worse mistake I could make. Minimal monarchies but a ton, a ton of flies are attracted to the strong smelling flowers. Also the wasps found it too. The vines continue to defy my weeding, mulching and chokes out my other plants.
Don't do it! You will regret this plant for all eternity
Oh no!! Thanks for sharing your experience with it. You’re definitely pushing me towards staying on top of it as best I can. It truly does push about through extremely thick mulch layers. I still don’t dislike it as much as Bermuda grass though.
I’m finding the best success by heavily and densely planting many plants where it exits. I have one area in my backyard where I filled the areas with tons of flowers, sunflowers, carrots, strawberries, radishes. Everything is so densely planted the Honeyvine milkweed is having a hard time getting established this year.
Then I have another bed in my front yard full of roses that I’m allowing to grow dense and thick together and I’m having less issues with the Honeyvine milkweed in that area as well.
I think dense dense planting as dense as you can go is key. There will still be some need to weed it out but won’t be as bad.
I'll have to give this a try and add more ground cover. My poppies are doing a good job right now but only temporary during the season
Oh yeah poppies are a great idea!