Vines and the trumpet vine are a prime example will grow more leaves than flowers if they are over-fed. The solution: Feed once a year, in late autumn (like now) or early spring.

A. Campsis radicans is a vigorous, often rampant, perennial vine that flowers from midsummer to September with orange or red trumpet-shaped flowers. It prefers full sun and a fairly lean soil.

Once trumpet vines get going, they usually flower pretty well and are good hummingbird attractors. Beware, though, that this is a big and, some would say, invasive vine.

Standing cypress is a freestanding plant, not a vine, with red, trumpet-shaped flowers. Its foliage is similar to a cypress vine, a tropical morning glory that also has trumpet-shaped red flowers.

One account suggested sucking the juice out of 15 trumpet creeper flowers provides about 100 calories. I’ve also read, however, that some humans are allergic to trumpet creepers.

Trumpet vine seems to be a copious producer of nectar, which is why hummingbirds are often heard buzzing the tree tops where it flowers (nectar, you know, is the sweet juice that many plants ...

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Q. Can you help us get rid of a trumpet vine that is about 10 years old and has never had flowers? Last year, we dug down a foot or more and though we had all the roots last year ...

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My interest in the trumpet vine / creeper was piqued when I observed this vine growing at least 40 feet high on a very tall oak tree and the flowers were impressive.