These innocent-looking flowers actually invade my entire yard! They grow fast and furious and cover everything. Lovely for awhile, but then they totally die back and dry out, the vines have to be pulled off to reveal all the underkill. Pasiano recently removed them from most places but left enough in this spot for the little rascals to come back. I love them, but not their final result.
For Cee’s FOTD
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
We plant them as aa container plant around here, but I can see how in a more advantageous environment they might become invasive.
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They are so pretty when blooming and so ugly once the vines dry out. And hard to divide from the plants and hedges they’ve invaded.
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Thunbergia Alata, (fake “black-eyed-Susan”) is a rambling plant but it is also a (clinging) vine, so it can be put on a support structure or even a hanging pot instead of just rambling through adjacent plants. So you can plant it as a hanging pot vine or climbing a trellis. If you get Pasiano to cut it back while it is still green, before it goes to seed, you should be able to control it that way.
I would suggest a potted plant with a nice trellis placed on the stone part of your patio. You can then enjoy the flowers without the problem of the VINE spreading. If it is any comfort, up here where the winters are colder, it actually dies back and becomes an annual. I have seen them grown up where you come from, grown as an annual.
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I planted it in one contained spot on the outside of my wall next to the street and in one year it had spread to my back yard. How I cannot imagine as there were walls all around and my house between and it was not connected by vines to the front. It must have spread somehow by seed. Perhaps birds’ feet. Or blown by wind. It did not spread by the vines growing invisibly underground as it would have had to to spread from one contained space to another more than half way across my lot.
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I vote for the birds~! I don’t think that roots are your problem… Such a beautiful flower, too bad you can’t control it, unless Pasiano deadheads the flowers as soon as they are past bloom.
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They look pretty
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They hardly look real!☺️
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I know. They look sorta like Buddy Poppy Poppies, but the wrong color.
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Similar to the loveliness of Rose of Sharon bushes–until they seed treelets throughout the yard in places the lawn mower can’t reach. My husband wanted to let some of them grow, and now that we want to do some landscaping, digging the juvenile bushes out (long roots) is a real bear!
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