I have a love for all types of Gardens and Garden Tools The Care and Growing of Trumpet Flower Plants and Vines
Do you know the difference between a Trumpet Flower and a Trumpet Flower Vine? There is sometimes much confusion as to which is which so maybe I can help slightly clear up any confusion. First of all a Trumpet Creeper is more of a vine and will grow to be sometimes as tall as 30 to 40 feet tall when they are in season and depending upon your climate zone.
Its flowers are generally three inches across in diameter and its colors range from bright yellow, to deep yellow orange to red. They are a prominent site along the U.S. Coastal and southeastern southern regions of the United States.
The Trumpet Cross Vine or Trumpet Vine or even Trumpet Flower Vine grows much shorter and flowers much shorter flowers. It blooms in spring and is native to the U.S. from the west to the Midwest and from the Mid-Atlantic to southern Florida.
Then there is the Angel Trumpet which looks more like a tree or a bush than a vine. This particular vine needs some type of support and adds unbelievable beauty to a well landscaped yard when planted under a tree. The vines will climb upward giving the illusion that the trunk of the tree is blooming with these beautiful flowers.
When supplying support to a trumpet vine make sure that the supporting object can withstand the pressure of something that is going to grow to a height of 30 to 40 feet tall. Fences and trellis’s work well also, fences allow for a longer length for the vine to run while trellis’s come in different shapes and add beauty to it. A trumpet vine on an arched trellis is a magnificent site that will also add beauty to one’s garden entryway.
Trumpet flower vines are fairly easy to grow since they are grown from seeds and can be planted directly into your flower garden(s) about a quarter inch deep, after the dangers of a late frost have passed . They can also be propagated by digging up and re- planting the suckers that grow out from the mother plant.
They should be planted in full sun in a good rich soil with some compost added just before planting and add a general fertilizer every two to three weeks during the season and just before they begin to bloom change to a high phosphorous fertilizer . Keep the soil moist, all plants like water and adding a layer of mulch will give them a neater and prettier appearance and will also help in keeping the weeds down.
Trumpet flowers are excellent re-seeders so they can and will be invasive. When their pods open up and begin to drop its seeds, if you do not want the vines to spread to quickly, just pick the pods off as they begin to appear. If you allow them to drop you will have new plants the following year which you will have to thin out and remember not to disturb new seedling plants.
Having this plant in your garden will bring it beauty and hummingbirds coming back year after year.