Where to Buy Trumpet Vines...
The most popular Trumpet Vines for home gardens are:
Farm Fresh Living: Grows Trumpet Creeper vines organically and ships container grown plants already staked.
- Campsis Flava - Yellow Trumpet Vine
- Campsis Minnesota Red - Red Trumpet Vine
- Campsis grandiflora - Orange and red Trumpet vine
Farm Fresh Living: Grows Trumpet Creeper vines organically and ships container grown plants already staked.
How To Trim A Trumpet Vine
Trumpet Creeper vines or Campsis are fast growing flowering vines that produce trumpet-shaped flowers typically June through September. Prized for thier fast growth, Trumpet vines grow to 25 feet x 25 feet making them ideal for covering fences, a trellis or an arbor. The flowers of Trumpet vines range in color from deep yellow to brilliant red and attract hummingbirds and butterflies into the garden. A vigorous grower, proper trimming of trumpet vines is essential to keep them flowering and looking their best. Tips to Trim a Trumpet Vine:
Trumpet vines can be trimmed at any time during the year; the time of the year that you trim depends on how much of the flowering vine that you remove. When pruning any vine, always use sharp pruners and make only one clean, cut.
- In the spring, just as the vines have broken dormancy and are showing new buds, remove any stems that have become damaged over the winter, have black spots on them or died out.
- Next remove weak or sucker growth that is sprouting form the base.
- During the summer, pinch back new shoots to promote a bushier plant and encourage lower flowering growth.
- After the trumpet creeper vines are finished flowering in the fall, trim out older, woody stems using sharp pruners.
- Next prune the vines to achieve the desired shape and coverage. If you want to train your vine to grow up over a trellis, prune back lateral shoots to encourage upright growth and likewise; top prune the trumpet vine to encourage lateral growth to cover a fence quickly.
- Continue pruning removing up to 1/3 of the old wood, and pruning out thin or weak branches.
- Trumpet vines have the tendency to become top-heavy, to prevent this prune back heavy top growth in the fall leaving the vine uniform in thickness from top to bottom.
- Finally base prune the vine to remove any new suckers that have sprouted over the summer.
