Looking for recommendations on a (preferably native) climbing vibe I can plant by an outdoor shower. It gets used almost every day, by 2-4 people who are rinsing in between sauna and cold plunge rounds. I’m near the greenbelt to give you an idea of the soil. Most of my yard gets no water, but this little corner gets a good amount. It’s south facing, and gets some shade from and American Elm that’s about 15 feet away, but it’s mostly in full sun. Originally I was thinking I wanted flowers…. But maybe I don’t want bees right where we hang out.
I am finally in a place where I can start to plan out my garden and I really want mostly drought tolerant natives. I have 7 trees in my backyard, 5 trees in my front yard, 3 patches of shrimp plants, and 2 patches of Nandina. The yard is a mixture of grass and native ground cover, though I’m not really sure what types.
We just had a fence put in, and before that I had 300 feet of chain-link fence that was completely interspersed with hackberry, chinaberry, and nandina. It took a crew of three guys almost 2 days to clear it out, followed by a stump grinder and stump killer along the fence line.
Thoughts???
by labeille
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Could you create a dry streambed with rocks to direct most of the water runoff away from the vines roots? I’d also worry about any soap/shampoo residue. Crossvine is super hardy/easy native plant but nothing that isn’t intended for wetlands enjoys standing wet soil
My black eyed Susan vine is doing great. The soil is constantly wet
Louisiana Iris like wet feet and would make a nice base plant.
You have to ask yourself, low maintenance or high maintenance. It’s a dramatic piece of landscape real estate and needs something impressive.
I made a post on here like a month ago asking for peoples’ experiences with Clematis and most seemed to think of it as a swamp plant. Since that post, i’ve just been unable to locate a texas clematis transplant.
How about passionflower? Incarnata & caeruela are both the primary host plants for the gulf fritillary – it’s kind of one of those ‘If you plant it they will come’ things. I grew up in northeast houston and you’d always find these popping out of the freshly mowed bayous & bogs. Ideal setup would probably some sort of raised planter to keep a portion of the plant from having wet feet 365 days/yr. Probably the only downside of passionflower once it’s established is it starts popping up everywhere, but thats really only an issue if it is planted next to vegetable gardens etc – if it pops up in your lawn it can just be mowed right over.
I’d give native coral honeysuckle or our native crossvine a try! Both have been evergreen for me and with consistent water you’ll get lots of blooms but they can take hot afternoon sun and are very drought tolerant when established! Passionflower is also gorgeous but not evergreen in my experience.