Trumpet Creeper

Trumpet Creeper (Tecoma) - Handsome and distinct climbing shrub of much beauty of habit as well as of flower. They are not so often seen in England as abroad, although well fitted for the southern and warmer parts, and in the case of one species and its varieties, hardy, and flowering well against walls far north of London. Syn., Bignonia.

Trumpet Creeper Pictures

Campsis radicans (L.) Seem. ex Bureau - trumpet creeper

Campsis radicans (L.) Seem. ex Bureau - trumpet creeper

Campsis radicans (L.) Seem. ex Bureau - trumpet creeper

Related Flowers

Tecoma Grandiflora

Tecoma Grandiflora - A Chinese plant, not so hardy as the American Trumpet Creeper, but more showy, with drooping orange-scarlet flowers in large clusters. Its foliage, too, is larger, but to show its vigour and beauty the plant must have light soil and a warm wall. The following are varieties:—Aurantia, which forms a rounded bush if let alone, has fine foliage of a deep, shining green, with ribs covered with down. The flowers are orange-yellow and small for T. grandiflora, the lobes narrower and less open. In Mme. Galen, the handsomest of the race, the flowers are large, of a fine salmon-red, orange-red outside. Rubra, flowers a fine deep red, leaves hairy on the lower side, a distinct and pretty variety.

Tecoma Radicans

Tecoma Radicans - Native of N. America, and an old garden favourite. Its long, wiry stems send out roots like Ivy, which cling to walls or any support. There is a variety named major, with larger flowers of a paler tint and more robust foliage. A strong plant will run up a wall 40 feet high. It is useful also for covering arbours and pergolas. It is also hardy, and has several varieties, viz., Flava speciosa, flowers long, orange-red; leaves distinct by their small, much indented folioles, with long narrow points. This form is dwarfer than the type and can be grown as a shrub. Grandiflora atro-purpurea, flowers deep red-purple and large. A vigorous shrub, requiring space to flower well. Princei coccinea comes between these, and is perhaps a hybrid. The flowers are large, of a fine cochineal-red, and in large panicles. T. hybrida, this form, a cross between T. grandiflora and T. radicans, has small, hairy leaves and handsome orange flowers in panicles.