Moon Plant Insists on Coming Back

[mass_burner]

I recently put yard fabric/pea gravel around the foundation in front of a new "pool deck". The PO had a moon plant there, but I got all the roots out. But its come back again! Not just one, but 4-5 by now. I like them, but as the summer goes on the blooms wilt and brown. Does anyone have experience growing them? I guess there a vine plant. I was thinking of saving some seeds and making a moon plant bed somewhere else.

 

[billb3]

I hope it's not bindweed.

I used to have moonflower vines growing on a trellis about 10 or 12 feet tall but didn't bother this year. Being an annual I'd save seed from last year and hope to get six vines for the trellis ( they kinda shoot straight up)

Unless you have moonflower bush which is something else. ??? -----> -angel's trumpet/devil's trumpet one blooms up the other down , iirc. But I don't remember which is which.


Pot them up and craigslist it before they get big and established again ?
Plants from pieces of root ? Or seed ?

 

[mass_burner]

I hope it's not bindweed.

I used to have moonflower vines growing on a trellis about 10 or 12 feet tall but didn't bother this year. Being an annual I'd save seed from last year and hope to get six vines for the trellis ( they kinda shoot straight up)

Unless you have moonflower bush which is something else. ??? -----> -angel's trumpet/devil's trumpet one blooms up the other down , iirc. But I don't remember which is which.


Pot them up and craigslist it before they get big and established again ?
Plants from pieces of root ? Or seed ?

blooms up, I didn't plant them. I thought I got rid of them, but they keep coming back. Craig's list? You mean folks will buy them?

 

[billb3]

blooms up,. Craig's list? You mean folks will buy them?

Yeah, dirt cheap, granted it's something valuable, although it seems the place to unload a 5 year old DSLR for what you paid for it (based on asking prices). You might get someone to come dig them up and take them, but given the persistence and growth in your pics Roundup may be the best solution.
I've dug up a fig with a backhoe to get rid of it and left a little piece of root in the ground.
Damn thing grew right back. the top dies every cold Winter and sends up twice as many shoots as the year before.
Sometimes not until mid-July and with a garden next to it can't really Round-up it. Figured last Winter did it in. Nope, it's back.

 

[1750]

I don't think you have a moonflower -- that comes from the same family that give us the Morning Glory (Ipomoea), and doesn't look like your pictures.

I'd guess maybe that's a Trumpet Flower. Possibly it's overwintering if it's in some really warm microclimate, like next to your furnace vent, but I'd think in Mass the winter would kill them very dead. They are heavy seeders, so this might well just be reseeding.

They are a pretty plant, and some people really love them. If this is your plant, take care if you have little kids or pets because most of this plant is toxic if eaten.

Here's a Wikipedia link so you can compare what you have to these pictures.

Good luck.