Campsis radicans – Trumpet Vine

Description

Trumpet Vine is a large, fast-growing climbing vine with pinnate glossy dark green leaves that are a duller green underneath and turn yellow in fall.  It’s trumpet-shaped flowers come in bright shades of orange and reds and bloom on new growth, attracting bees and butterflies from summer until frost.  Blooms best in
 full sun 
and well-drained soil.  An excellent choice for trellises or pergolas.  Very aggressive spreader and drought tolerant.

MAINTENANCE NEEDS:  High maintenance.  Prune in early spring before flowering.  Needs sturdy support, as the plant gets heavy.  The biggest problem is restraining the suckers to prevent self-seeding and smothering nearby plants.

LANDSCAPE USES:Specimen or Mass Plantings, Screening, Water Gardens or Ponds, Wildlife Garden, Trellises and Walls, and Containers.

COMPANION PLANTS: Bee Balm, Milkweed, Butterfly Bush

IMAGES: Famartin, 2022-07-04 11 13 48 Trumpet vines on an old tree stump along Willis Drive in the Mountainview section of Ewing Township, Mercer County, New Jersey, CC BY-SA 4.0, (2) Georges Seguin (Okki), Bambouseraie de Prafrance 20100904 103, CC BY-SA 3.0, (3) Dguendel, Compiègne, Château, park, pergola with Campsis radicans, CC BY 4.0, (4) Andrew Butko, 2013. Седово 096, CC BY-SA 3.0

*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown.