Trumpet vine is a high-climbing, aggressively colonizing, woody vine that is cultivated for its attractive reddish-orange flowers that attract hummingbirds.

Q. What can you tell me about trumpet vine or trumpet creeper? Many of my friends tell me to avoid it like the plague. A. Depending on who one talks to, trumpet vine is either native to the ...

I have some pods growing on my trumpet vine and would like to know if I can store them for the winter and grow them in the spring. I would like to give my daughter a start somehow. A: Let the seeds ...

The picture you sent me is definitely what I would call a trumpet vine, also called trumpetcreeper (Campsis radicans KAMP-sis RAD-i-kanz). It has a very distinctive flower, tubular in nature, borne in ...

Q: I have had trumpet vines for several years and they have never bloomed. They are located against an arbor and their branches wind in and out. They are watered by our irrigation system three times ...

Dear Dr. Dirt: My friend has a lovely orange flowering trumpet vine. She has given me a couple seedpods with seeds to plant. When and how should these be planted? -— Libby, Brownsburg Dear Reader: The ...

A dull fence or wall could detract from a beautiful garden, but a rapidly growing climbing plant might just be the perfect fix. Gardening gurus are pointing to one particular plant to turn it into a ...

Q. My 10-foot-high flowering trumpet vine was cut down accidentally from the fence it grew on. It’s now just 2 feet. Is this going to impact its ability to flower again next summer? –Julie McCaffrey, ...

*Growth habit: A climbing deciduous vine growing shoots to 30 feet long. The leaves are oblong, consisting of numerous leaflets, dark green and grow to 12 inches long and half as wide. *Light: ...

Time-lapse of a trumpet vine germinating and growing from seed to young plant. Seeds were cold-stratification in a moist paper towel and placed in a fridge for 70 days. After that, we took one seed ...