Hi:

It looks like Datura to me, D. inoxia or similar. It will have a large white fragrant flower, opening in the evening. It's half vine, half shrub, like a tomato plant (which it's related to). In other words, it's a sprawly shrub.

Thanks! That was quick work.

kt

I was going to say Datura too, but it's more of a shrub than a vine. Datura inoxia is my vote.

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The 6" diameter flowers open at night and collapse when the sun hits them. They are about 8" long. But for those few hours, it is heavenly. Every time flush should double the number of blooms you get. Mine has 4 new buds after blooming Tuesday night.

These will be annual for you but can re-seed. If you have earwigs beware they can sometimes hide in the long tubular flower bud and eat them from the inside out before they can bloom. My first 12 or so flowers fell victim to them my first year growing them...caught red-handed. I later set out trapping the buggers :O

They are not a vine, but a sprawling plant....not a shrub unless it's perennial where it's growing. Here my plants measured about 3' high by about 4.5 wide.

Token, if mine grows to look like yours, I'll be happy with it.

Do you overwinter or start them from seeds each year? It looks like the plant may not be hardy up here in the frozen wastes of Maryland.

kt

Vera--our postings must have crossed :) Thanks for answering my questions about the plant.

kt

Really? I don't think it looks like datura. But if it is the white flowered variety, the leaves will give off an aroma. To me it smells sort of like peanut butter.

Lisa

And the winner is---Datura! It sure grew fast.

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It's incredible how they start to bloom while still small relative to their mature size even when treated as annual because of zone.

I've got 4 Datura metal 'Belle Blanche' but don't detect any fragrance even when I stick my nose in bloom...LOL.

Looking at Datura meteloids 'Evening Fragrance' but like bloom shape of 'Belle Blanche' better. The difference is slight so don't know why I'd have preference but I do.

Doubles are pretty and that's what I originally wanted but once 'Belle Blanche' bloomed I was taken with beauty of bloom's graceful, pointed simplicity.

Fragrance or scent? What a conundrum. Maybe some of each but that means more pots to water so they're in sunlight.

Got doused by collected moisture in blooms first morning I deadheaded...LOL.

Bonus is no critter eats the plant! BIG bonus.

Enjoy your surprise "vine"!

The scent must be wonderful.
Congratulations.
:-)