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trumpet creeper

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

trumpet creeper and trumpet vine: see bignonia .


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It's impossible to tame rampant trumpet vine
; ...paper that a lady complained that her trumpet vine did not bloom so I decided to write you about my trumpet vine problems. I have five plants. They...The problem is that I have a lot of trumpet vine suckers coming up everywhere. I dig... Read more
HUMMER NOW SITS MORE THAN BEFORE
; ...photograph at the top of your article of the trumpet vine, which is the main reason I am writing you. About five years ago I ordered the trumpet vine through a catalog but it has never bloomed...leaves for you to see if it is truly a trumpet vine. Since you have one in bloom, I am ... Read more
Through Garden's Gate, A Setting Worlds Apart
; ...gateway festooned with a rose bower or trumpet vine is one of the prettiest spectacles in...vigorous vine such as wisteria, clematis, trumpet vine or a cultivated honeysuckle. Smart gardeners...but take several more years to bloom. Trumpet vine needs the least prepared ground and... Read more
Trumpet vine slow to produce flowers.(Home & Garden)(Ask a master gardener)
; Q. How fast does a trumpet vine grow? A. While the exotic looking trumpet vine (Campsis radicans) may be touted as a fast-growing...produce its flamboyant flowers. As long as the trumpet vine is growing well, it will eventually flower. If... Read more
TRUMPET VINE GROWS WHERE IT WANTS.(Stars)(Column)
; ...CONTRIBUTING WRITER Dear Carol: I have had a trumpet vine for 12 years, and it got so aggressive...B.R., North Syracuse. Dear B.R.: Trumpet vine (Campsis radicans) and Virginia creeper...garden they may have to be restrained. Trumpet vine blooms on new wood in midsummer. It... Read more
Trumpet vine takes a while to burst into bloom
; Several gardeners complain the trumpet vine does not bloom as promptly as they think...should, and I fully agree. Once I moved a trumpet vine from Tennessee to Washington, and although...another case, a friend had a yellow trumpet vine and objected to the color (which I like... Read more
Vine and Dandy
; ...in much of temperate America a hybrid trumpet vine called `Madame Galen.' Its parents are...vigorous. This may be the place to say this trumpet vine (and all others) will grow up the wall...winter. It grows exactly as our native trumpet vine (Campsis radicans) does but does not... Read more
YARD SMART 'Twin' trumpet vines make double plays
; ...hideaways are defined by one plant: the trumpet vine. What clematis is to England, the trumpet vine is to America, where the flowers are...applies to a wholly different orange trumpet vine. To bring traditional red trumpet vine... Read more
Give vine room to grow, water
; ...you can help me. I planted a yellow trumpet vine three or four years ago and it still...virgin's bower, which I had hoped the trumpet vine would supplant, and receives sun all...will be appreciated. -- S.H. A: The trumpet vine is usually easy to grow. I haven't seen... Read more
Vine and dandy // Flowering climbers are pretty and practical
; ...are roses, clematis, honeysuckle and trumpet vine. A real favorite is clematis, tough...pruning they'll last for years. Beware the trumpet vine: Neighbors have warned me not to plant...rail or picket fence in full sun, a trumpet vine can grow up to 20 feet the first year... Read more

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bignonia
...and also a few shrubs and trees. The trumpet creeper (of the genus Bignonia ) and the trumpet flower, or trumpet vine (of the genus Campsis ), both found...sometimes cultivated for their orange-red trumpet-shaped flowers. The calabash tree of... Read more
calabash
Tree (Crescentia cujete ) of the trumpet-creeper family (Bignoniaceae) that grows in Central and South America, the West Indies, and extreme southern Florida. It is often grown... Read more
climbing plant
...honeysuckle), or grasp the support by special processes such as adventitious aerial roots (English ivy, poison ivy, trumpet creeper), tendrils (see tendril ), hook-tipped leaves (gloriosa lily, rattan), or stipular thorns (catbrier). Some climbing... Read more
white cedar
...include the chinaberry (Melia azedarach , mahogany family ) and some members of the plant families Bignoniaceae (trumpet creepers), Celastraceae (staff trees), Myristicaceae (nutmegs), Burseraceae, and Dipterocarpaceae. Botanically, white cedar... Read more

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