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 ...

A plain fence or wall can look bare in an otherwise beautiful garden, but there's a fast-growing climbing plant that could be ...

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 ...

What is not to like about a plant that is naturalized to Ohio, produces showy yellow orange to red trumpet-shaped flowers, attracts hummingbirds, bees and deer, and can be expected to grow 15 feet a ...

*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: ...

Q. Can you recommend a fast-growing deciduous vine that will cover a 20-foot trellis on the east side of my home? — Jeff Rossiter, Chicago A. A fast-growing vine for our area is trumpet vine (Campsis ...

Q: I planted a trumpet vine 3 years ago. It hasn't bloomed yet. Will it bloom next year? When can I prune the vine? A: Trumpet vines are notoriously slow to start blooming. They often focus mainly on ...

Steve Bender Don't let its pretty flowers fool you into planting a thuggish trumpet vine. Native to the eastern United States and now escaped to the West, trumpet vine (Campsis radicans), also called ...