I put in several last fall in a seperate raised bed.
They have already grown 4-5 feet and some are laying down but not rooting yet. But there is mulch down also.
I have read if you support it will grow upwards.
I plan on trimming back after flowering each spring.
They did get a little frost damage also.
There are other honeysuckle vines that do crawl I think.

They don't take over like other vines, since they are really woody. They grow fast, and need to be tied up and trimmed regularly, but they won't creep into other beds, and I never had any suckering. I got tired of trimming mine. My dad has them covering a 15 foot tall wall covered with lattice, and they are spectacular.

I have one in a smallish (4-5'x1') rectangular area in the concrete area between my fence and my house. It grows fast and needs a lot of pruning to keep it in check.
I guess it depends on what you are trying to do with it. It responds well to "shape" pruning, but needs it often (1 x a month). I agree, it doesn't really sucker, per se, but puts up lots of new stems from the main trunk.
I wouldn't call it "invasive", as in self-sewing, suckering, etc., but it does require diligent maintenance to keep it in check if you don't want it in some sort of manageable bounds in a small area.

wanda

I grew it in Watsonville as a screen, supported by steel fence post with wire strung between them. My neighbor had a lawn on her side and I had Star Jasmine grown as a ground cover on my side. It took a lot of pruning to keep it in shape and out of the star jasmine where it sent long runners. It is very pretty when in bloom, but required so much pruning that not much bloom was possible because it blooms on the ends of the new growth. Since I sold the property the new owners are not into garden maintenance and the screen is all over the place, rampant. Al

Ours suckered and the roots went everywhere and new suckers came up everywhere in the garden. It was without question a thug here. It was a heck of an effort to get rid of it.

It's a thug.Those who say it isn't,really mean that there are WORSE thugs and uglier thugs,but it's still a thug.

It has NEVER suckered for me. Maybe some people are reffering to Honeysuckle vine, which is a MAJOR thug and actually does sucker from the roots. It's not really a vine either, it's more of a sprawling shrub.

Here's my experience with them. They have extensive root systems, that run along the surface. They do send out vine-like new growth in the spring or when watered too much, and that new growth is the one that crawls on the ground and could root if it gets enough moisture (which has never been a problem for me because they are watered with a drip irrigation system). I have several that i have trained into multi-trunked shrubs and i prune them to keep them compact. Another key element for keeping them compact and flowering more densly is to restrict water. The more stressed they are (to an extent) the heavier they flower. Another plus is that they attract hoardes of hummingbirds and bloom in the wintertime when little else is in bloom. Mine bloom all through winter unless we have a severe freeze like the one in 2007, when they froze the ground but came back from the roots. Here's a picture of one of my shrubs (which needs a little trimming). The picture is from the beginning of December and the plant was planted a year ago from a one gallon container.
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And hummingbirds can't resist these flower
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Well, as a precaution, I guess i should err on the side of caution and plant it in a bottomless container?

Well I am going to plant some along a lattice fence I just built to screen where I park my boat. I am making a 5-6' deep planting bed out from the lattice and I will be planting several probably 5-6 because I need to cover about 40' or so. I am also going to be planting penstamon(beard tongue) some aguillera (columbine) as well as some salvia (annuals) and some balck and blue salvia and probalby something else. I will let you know how mine is doing as soon as I have something to report. Any suggestons on favorite hummingbird plant for the dallas area. I am also planting some Tecoma stans or yellow bells. Last year that was the most vivisted plant that I had. They did not come back this year due to the freezes we had. I am going to try again with planting them in the ground this year.
Thanks

I like 'em. They're one of the few things that will grow well in the hellstrip on the north side of my property where there was once an Oleander hedge that died of leaf scorch. They don't require a whole lot of water. They do root along branches that run along the ground but that's a bonus for me because I'd like them to mix with the California rose I planted to discourage fence hoppers. The rose alone is kinda scraggly and the Cape Honeysuckle helps to fill it in.

The Privet I planted there 8 years ago is still just squatting there. I guess it doesn't like following after Oleander. Lady Banks rose isn't doing much better.

I just bought 4 cape honey suckle plants

and would like to know if it's a good time to plant them or s it too hot?