Q. Please help! A while back I fell in love with a red trumpet vine. I just had to have one. My friend gave me a cutting to plant by my porch to provide shade from the afternoon sun. Well, it has ...

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 ...

Red trumpet vine, Distictis buccinatoria, is more green than red. The tubular orangish red flowers with yellow throats are pretty while weather is warm, but not too abundant. Slightly distressed ...

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 ...

Summer is here, and trumpets are declaring it, but these trumpets aren’t blaring, they’re glaring. These trumpets are some of my favorite summer flowers, along with bell-shaped flowers. Summer is the ...

Trumpet creeper is so large, so willing and so floriferous, it was the West's favorite outhouse cover-up. Only a reliable plant could survive on these neglected spaces visited only when necessary. All ...

Planting flowering vines is a great way to add color to your landscape. So many of our properties are surrounded by bare, unattractive walls just begging to be covered with luxuriant vines. Fences, ...

One of the wonderful things about autumn is the great wealth of vines that are coming into bloom. There is certainly no shortage of showy climbers to choose from, with such favorites as jasmine, ...

Q: I've had this trumpet vine for four or five years, and it gets the green foliage but never blooms. Am I doing something wrong? I was hoping this year it would bloom because I transplanted it to a ...