Russian Vine - problem!

I desperately need this vine to grow and go mad and cover a huge expanse of fence. I noticed today the leaves are covered in rust/brown marks. Any ideas?

 

Just wait.
In a few years you'll be asking for ways to get rid of it.
If it looks healthy overall and still growing a few rust marks won't matter.

 

Are they prone to any diseases Madahhlia? It's to cover an ex-aviary 6ft high x 9ft long. It does look a wee bit limp lol now I come to notice it. Bit like I feel.

 

Don't know of any diseases, if you find one you could probably patent it. Limp is more worrying than rust, I feel. Water it, and have a poke in nearby soil to check if there's any vine weevil about.

 

Hope you perk up soon, BTW!

 

Ok ta, will do. I seem to have some huge problem with the soil in that bit of the garden. Nothing is growing up there apart from chickweed. And I mean nothing I dug a hole and put in compost then the vine, think maybe I should put in more compost around it. God knows what's wrong up there but at least there's no weeds Just don't want to lose that vine.

 

Your probably the only one who doesn't want rid of the vine. you probably went wrong feeding the darn thing it survives on nothing and just goes wild. I have always got roots of it if yours dies!

 

So true moyra I planted one to cover a fence it attached itself to everything in sight think if I'd stood still long enough it'd have had me too lol, very pretty in flower but spent my life trying to tame it, luckily the cold winter a couple of years ago killed it off!!!!! planted a clematis in its place much easier to control.

 

What if it was planted in a large container? Would it still go beserk and be difficult to control? It's tempting to get one just because it grows so fast so I can block out a nosey neighbour.

 

Our neighbour at the back has one that they don't control and its 'escaped' in to the hedgerow completely covering a mature hawthorn tree thats a good 15ft+ tall and wide. I'm quite literally cutting it back on my side twice a week at the moment otherwise our garden would be swamped in a matter of weeks, it's a real meance but when its in flower I've never seen so many hoverflies, bees, flies and beetles in one place, its a real magnet for them.....

 

cGod now I'm worried it doesn't survive our winters!! We've been down to -21...
If it dies then at least I know I've got loads of folk in here with roots

 

Or you could decide to have Clematis Montana instead! Win/win!

 

i love my Russian Vine & im not the only one.....



i keep mine more as a feed for the guinea pigs & birds than for the garden, its kept trimmed tight to the wall so never gets a chance to get out of hand but i do lose out on the flowers because of it, here's a pic of mine taken last year......

 

I had a clematis in there before the vine, it died. I even tried ivy but it died too. AND it cost me a tenner in the garden centre! Big variegated nice ivy

 

Oh dear, oh dear. A bit of a plant graveyard, then.
I wonder what the problem is? Possibly very poor, dry soil. Clematis certainly wouldn't like that. Although ivy is supposed to.

If the vine buys it, you could dig out a big hole about 12" deep, water copiously into the base, fill it with nice home-made compost or even some manure and try planting into that.

Please don't spend any more money on variegated ivy cuttings. I can provide you with plenty of ivy cuttings and I'm sure many more on here could as well!