Description: For a bright, sturdy vine to furnish a wall, none beats Chinese trumpet creeper. If it's a brick wall, even better, for the dark orange to red flowers of this vigorous climber will warm ...

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 ...

Old gardens can be great generators of new plants. Hybrids can arise unbidden, and self-sown seedlings sometimes outshine their parents. Seasoned trees and shrubs sport chance mutations that may be ...

When the “neungsohwa,” or trumpet creeper called the Campsis Grandiflora, in my garden starts to flower, it's time again for “jangma,” the long monsoon season in summer. Oddly enough, the neungsohwa, ...

Having promised to tell you about indigenous plants for your garden I am immediately putting my foot in it by doing nothing of the kind although, I did fully intend to! The first two 'indigenous' ...