Tropical Zone Gardening: February,still cold with lots of snow!!!, 1 by LApalms

LApalms wrote:
B.H. Mom-
How are ya?
I know what you mean about vines, even here they can go mad. My favorite is theOrange Clock Vine Thumbergia, the one that's pure day-glo orange without the black throat. Mine grew 20' over the fence and along 2 sides of the neighbors fence. Then the monster of all, the Lilikoi (the fruiting type) vine. They warn you about these in Sunset Western Garden Book.
That thing grew over 5 ' tall and along a FORTY FEET FENCE IN ONE YEAR!
The people across the street and nextstore are from Hawaii and loved the fruit. Then I got a knock at the door, and a older couple from HI wanted to know if they could pick some (there were prob 300 of them). I said sure ( A LOT of people from HI live here). A few days later I opened the door and there was a big jar of Passion fruit Jam they made.
pretty cool. From the internet-

"Vines: Orange Clock Vine Thunbergia gregorii
FAMILY: ACANTHACEAE (Acanthus Family)

Gorilla Tropics at the San Diego Zoo has an especially exuberant example of the orange clock vine Thunbergia gregorii. When you walk past the vigorously cascading twiner, you can easily imagine that you've stepped into the tropics of Africa, where it makes its home.