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Product Description
Cover A Fence Or Trellis!
Commonly called Black-Eyed Susan vine, this tender perennial is evergreen in zones 10 and warmer, and where it is grown as a perennial, it can reach heights of 20 feet. In cooler areas where there are winter frosts, grow Thunbergia vine as an annual, sowing the Thunbergia seeds each spring.
About Our Packets
Seed packets by Seed Needs are beautifully illustrated and provide a colorful depiction of the variety inside. We provide the common name, as well as the scientific name, seed quantity and a few specs about the variety to be grown.
Each packet contains full growing instructions on the reverse side. Specifications on sowing the seed, growing conditions such as sunlight and moisture preferences and germination and growth information can be found as well.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2024
New England zone 6A/6B here. For years, I’d planted black-eyed Susan vine seeds in my Earth Box beneath a large black iron trellis. When flowering against my old and weathered cedar shingled home, the trellis’s vines always became a stunning invitation to my container fruit trees and culinary herb garden beyond.Late last winter, I invested in an indoor 5-shelf double ballast grow light system to help jump start my spring planting. At first, I started these Thunbergia vine seeds under the ballasts in little Jiffy peat pots and put the pallet under the ballasts. Big mistake — never use peat pots! While the seeds germinated, each seedling’s roots fixed inextricably into the otherwise hard peat pot’s sides! Every seedling failed extrication, and I had to start over. It was no fault of the seed, just peat potting. My second package, I started the seeds in larger silicone cells under the ballasts. Likewise, they took off. I seamlessly transferred the germinated the plugs into my Earth Box.While the vines and deep green foliage took off upon transplanting, none of them flowered until late August. Now nearly end of September (and 24-hour temps ranging from high 40s to low 70s), the vines are flowering like no tomorrow, exploding their blooms against their still-dark foliage and barely visible trellis, and remind me why I love gardening.
Hayden Whang
Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2024
(Zone 10) As a last minute garden addition, I direct sowed some seeds in late May. We had a couple of heat waves in late May/early June, in which the ground throughly dried out, so I assumed the seeds were cooked. To my surprise the seeds survived and sprouted perfectly fine. The germination rate was excellent and the flowers appeared in August. The plants tolerated the worst of the summer heat in the full sun. Although if you can offer them some afternoon shade or a shade cloth, they seem to do a bit better. I’ve had some other seeds from this company and they always have excellent seeds.I updated the review with more current pictures. The picture of the full vine is after 4 months of growing. And it’s still climbing! There are tons of blooms (now in October).
Dee Cee
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2024
Unfortunately, it's been so hot and dry that, even with daily watering, my seedlings died. I will try again next year , but will try to plant earlier. I love the look of them on the package. So sad 😢
DRBrown
Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2024
These little seeds were easy to plant and sprouted quickly. They are tall enough to begin climbing the trellis, but no flowers yet. It’s still a little early. I’m sure they will be lovely.
S. Clouse
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2024
I was SO impressed with the quality of the seeds and the quality of this vine! I've never grown Thunbergia before, but I had great success with germination from the seeds and every plant I had survived the entire season. I am in late December in North Texas (we've had a very mild December) and a couple of my vines are STILL blooming!! They do take a little while to take off, but once they do they grow so fast. They also do not flower in extreme heat. I had flowers starting in the spring, and then with our extreme Texas heat I had to wait until early fall to start seeing flowers on it again. But once our nights cooled down, the blooms were prolific! You can see in one photo I also grew it in one location on my back fence along with Purple Hyacinth Bean Vine. They look so pretty together.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2024
Never had these before but I’ll definitely have them again! The colors only vary according to stage of bloom. They’re mostly the orange. But they grow so easily, like morning glories, but you get all day blooms.
margie
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2023
Seeds germinated well, but the problem is every single flower is orange. Every single flower. This is not a mix of colored black-eyed Susan Vines. Customer service is the worst! Sent them an email and they won't even reply! I guess they're good if you want all orange flowers, but if you do you can find them a lot cheaper then here. What people don't understand when they sell seeds is we commit months of our time to get to that flower, so to ignore our issues, and to make money off of scamming us is wrong.
PJP-CA
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2022
They are beginning to vine and have blooms...thats a start.UPDATE JAN 31 2023The vines are well rooted and climbing all over the chain link fence to hide the eyesore of my neighbors yard. The flowering vines are doing very well, they are beautiful and doing great through all of the very unusually wet CA rainy season. Holding up beautifully! So growing them from seeds was a success!
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