Origin
South America
Light
Full sun
Watering
Weekly
Care
Easy
Flowering
Flowering
Outdoor
Bignone
Bright orange trumpets all summer on a vine that scales a bare wall, with no trellis or wire.
Care Profile
A guide to ensuring your botanical companion thrives.
Origin
North America
Light
Full sun
Watering
Rarely
Maintenance
Easy
A climber that grips by itself
Native to the south-eastern United States, it climbs with small clinging rootlets that emerge from its stems and anchor in the slightest roughness of stone.
Its long tubular flowers are shaped for hummingbirds; around the Mediterranean it is bees and large butterflies that visit, climbing right inside the corolla.
"It needs no support anyone gives it."
01
Styling Tip 01
Mind the surface
The rootlets damage render and work under roof tiles: keep it to rough walls, pergolas and solid fences.
02
Styling Tip 02
Hard prune every winter
Cut the year's growth back to two or three buds: it flowers on new wood, and without pruning it goes bare at the base.
03
Styling Tip 03
Invasive suckers
It suckers metres from the base: cut them the moment they appear, or install a root barrier.
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Origin
South America
Light
Full sun
Watering
Rarely
Care
Easy
Flowering
Flowering