Tolerates full sun to shade, turns fiery red outdoors in the cold, and goes completely dormant in winter—just keep the pot moist without letting roots mold. Grows quickly indoors in a greenhouse, but needs a tall pot for its large taproot. The one pictured is about 1–2 years old. Hard to propagate from scratch, so I sourced a rooted plant from the wild. (i’m also constantly testing other plants commonly referred as weeds to see if they’re a good house plant secretly)
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i wouldn’t plant that.
THIS, YES !
I fell in love with the “Star Shower” one, which is variegated (very similar to the variegations on a pachira except … It can actually handle frost, and the change of colors ? *Chef kiss*)
https://preview.redd.it/427n9vpg0opg1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8bd1b7ca89f3ed623307821eca8950e9a8da942b
(Mine is still dormant, so here’s a Google photo!)
Taking plants from the wild is usually frowned upon from a conservationist standpoint though I applaud the idea
I have a big one bonsai in a large pot outdoors I move into the garage every winter. It’s quite beautiful.
The house I live in has this growing on the walls.
I like it but it can grow 15ft a year and it gets very dark inside if the windows aren’t cut clear in the summer.
It also spreads underground and will emerge from the grass to climb anything including suffocating tree canopies.
It doesn’t damage masonry like ivy but will grow between roof slates, eventually breaking them.
I love the little plinking sound the feet of these vines make as I yank them off of my house and wrestle their roots out of the ground. I would like the variegated one as a houseplant though.
Ugh, please take mine! It’s all over my property despite years of effort, and I get a horrid rash if I even look at the vines the wrong way 😓
Get rid of it!! I live in Maryland and the Virginia creeper is tearing down fences, killing all the trees along the highway and any other place that doesn’t have a dedicated person to rip it down every year. My neighbor has some growing on her side of the fence (there is 14 in between the fences so we can walk through the middle to clear it) and every year it takes over her entire fence, my entire fence, my lilac tree, everything. It kills all of the plants that it attaches itself too and it destroys the brickwork of your house as well as making spaces between the siding so your house can get black mold without you knowing about it
I used to have a shed. now I just have a giant support structure for Virgina creeper. honestly, I kind of like it though.