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Herbaceous & Woody Climbers
ORANGE TRUMPET-VINE
Campsis radicans
$2.50
This has long been a favorite plant of mine for its attractive odd-pinnate foliage, ability to climb by aerial rootlets, large tropical looking colorful flowers of trumpet shape, and its attraction to hummingbirds. They are excellent to grow over dead tree stumps rather than having them ground out at some expense, and will brighten up a sunny wall for weeks on end with their long-lasting floral display. They have often garnered interest here at the farm when I have trained them to standards or small trees by planting them next to a six foot post or most recently an inverted dead black locust tree of about 8 inch caliper (black locust and osage orange are said to be among the few posts that will outlast the hole). In just two or three years you will have a small exotic flowering tree that looks like it has been around for a much longer time. The trick is to trim the branches back to within a foot of the head in late winter so it will form a dense even top instead of long wayward branches. This doesn’t hurt the floral display as it blooms on the new wood. They are ideally sited on the lawn where the occasional sucker will be kept at bay by the mower. We grow them in four colors which should come relatively true from seed. If anyone has any knowledge of the illusive C. radicans ‘Atropurpurea’ please let me know. Zone 4.
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