[klaar]

We are installing a dry-laid flagstone patio, which butts up against an existing, 4' high, bluish, dry-laid stone wall. I want to plant honeysuckle (for aroma) or another vine at the base of the wall.

Will honeysuckle climb a dry-laid stone wall? Will any desirable vine?

If not, perhaps I can wedge something into the wall to assist the vine. If so, something natural and inconspicuous would be preferable. I'm hoping to avoid using trellises.

Any ideas?

[HardDaysKnight]

Honeysuckle, if I'm correct, is a twining not self-clinging
flowering vine.The trumpet creeper or trumpet vine
might be better suited but somewhat invasive.
Do some research on self-clinging vines(google) in your
area. http://hcs.osu.edu/hort/plantlisting/vines.html

Johnny

[GLAN]

yeah, be aware that those vines can take off on their own. Do some research on them and then see if you still want them.

I spent years and still do getting rid of Honeysuckle and Trumpet Vine from yards............and not to leave out Ivy

[trees]

Take a look at crossvine (Bignonia capreolata), Moonlight Hydrangea Vine (Schizophragma hydrangeoides 'Moonlight' -- needs a little shade), also Boston Ivy (Parthenocisus tricuspidata) or Silver-vein creeper (Parthenocisus henryana).

All great vines without too much invasiveness.

[Bill Schwab]

There was once a time in Illinois that the state DOT banned planting of honeysuckle on roadways because it was so aggressive it took over everything else and proved a maintenance nightmare. We routinely use honeysuckle to hold back slopes because one their root system gets into this concrete we call soil, they work just like Geo-Webbing without the ugly plastic.

There are all kinds of fun vines you could install, Clematis is one the comes to mind.

If you want to make a hidden trellace, try drilling the face of some of the stone with a 1/4" bit. Then get a 1# box of 8 penny galvanized nails and epoxy them into the holes. Then get a small roll of 60 lb test monofillement fishing line. Tie the line from one nail to the next and you just made yourself a cheap, easy to maintain invisible trellace.

[HardDaysKnight]

Originally posted by Bill Schwab
There was once a time in Illinois that the state DOT banned planting of honeysuckle on roadways because it was so aggressive it took over everything else and proved a maintenance nightmare. We routinely use honeysuckle to hold back slopes because one their root system gets into this concrete we call soil, they work just like Geo-Webbing without the ugly plastic.

There are all kinds of fun vines you could install, Clematis is one the comes to mind.

If you want to make a hidden trellace, try drilling the face of some of the stone with a 1/4" bit. Then get a 1# box of 8 penny galvanized nails and epoxy them into the holes. Then get a small roll of 60 lb test monofillement fishing line. Tie the line from one nail to the next and you just made yourself a cheap, easy to maintain invisible trellace.

Clematis is imo the most luxurious and would need something
like the fishing line. That's an interesting invisible trellis.
Also if you tighten the string at different tentions you can play it
like a guitar

[GLAN]

Fishing line works great.......We've done that on fences.

I think fishing line is one of those things that are valuable to the gardener as duct tape is to just about everything

[Stonehenge]

The fishing line is a great idea - in the past we've just wedged shims between some stones, drilled a hole in the shims and used twist-ties until the vines got established. But I think the fishing line is a cleaner, sexier solution.