Clytostoma callistegioides Lavender Trumpet Vine a Beautiful Imposter
westes Zone 9b California SF Bay
11 months ago
last modified: 11 months ago
Featured Answer
Sort by:Oldest
Comments (9)
westes Zone 9b California SF Bay
11 months agoRelated Discussions
Help! My lavender trumpet vine is on strike!!
Comments (6)Clytostoma callistegioides prefers filtered shade in a hot and arid environment. This year in Austin has been one for the record books in terms of number of triple digit highs and drought. My lavender trumpet lives beneath a lattice overhead in a container I constructed on my patio where it receives a constant drip from the condensation drain of my air conditioner. Well, it's one way to take advantage of 90% humidity! I bought mine in a five gallon pot at a local nursery. It flowered in May and has doubled in size since April of this year. If you blow up the photo, you will see that the planter is filled with lamium, caladium, calla lily, holly fern, and variegated sweet potato vine. Are you using plenty of compost? Here is a link that might be useful: lavender trumpet...See MoreVine for pergola near house
Comments (7)From my experience, lavender trumpets are quite vigorous and require a lot of maintenance to remove dead leaves and branches. I'm allergic to jasmine, and so that would be out for me, and it is also fairly messy. If you are in the right zone, a golden chalice would be beautiful and easy to maintain. The one I had in Venice grew over an archway that I built over the driveway, and it had flowers pretty much all year, although somewhat less in December and January. It is also very easy to control and does not create a lot of dead leaf waste. Passion vine is a very good choice, and you get fruit from it. I used to get 60 passion fruit a day from the vine I had in Venice, and so I had to buy a juicer in order to be able to use all the fruit. The fruit is very tart, but you add sweetener to it and make sorbet that is heavenly. Passion vines do create a lot of dead leaf waste, however. I put redwood slats on my pergola so that it would be shady, and now I can use that shade to protect many of my bromeliads. Lars...See MoreClimbing vines ideas.. help!
Comments (11)Thank you guys for all the ideas! I will have to do some further research and see what will work best. The roses are leading the way thus far (and I think my wife likes them too). The pergola gets pretty harsh sunlight all summer and into the fall where I am. temps get well above 100 most summers for extended periods of time. We are going to mulch a big area around the pergola and plant shrubs and lantana against the fences. I can get water to the vines or roses if needed, it's the heat that worries me. The pergola faces west, so it gets sun most of the afternoon. I plan on shutting down a few sprinkler heads, but already have a drip system set up, so I would only have to run a T to get water to the plants. I had some bower vines planted in another part of the yard, and they just never took off. It could be the clay soil, or the acidity, I'm not sure, but they have been there for two years with very little growth, but I love them. The trumpet vine is also a good idea and I cant believe I didn't think of it. My neighbor, who I know for a fact NEVER waters anything, has trumpet vines which have grown right to the back and left of the pergola from his side and up and over the fence. Will they climb up the pergola? The star jasmine is also a great idea. Thunbergia sounds great too, and I know I have seen it around my neighborhood. So many choices... ahhhhh. I do wonder if planting it and irrigating it right next to the pergola might rot the wood, but other than that, it's only the intense heat that I really have to factor in to this decision....See MorePot sizes
Comments (3)Gardengal, thank you for responding. I bought both the trumpet vines and wisteria to get some large growth. I would like them to grow along my rafters of my greenhouse from one side to the other about 32 feet. I know that I will probably need to prune them to keep them in check and not have them pull down my greenhouse but I'm willing to do that. I was hoping to plant them in the largest pots in hopes of getting maximum growth from them. I wish they would bloom this spring as I need something for hummingbirds that visit my greenhouse every spring. But I will have to grow on a lot of petunias again in hopes of providing them flowers other than my feeder I usually put up. I am so excited as I got these plants today in the mail and they look fantastic. Will get them planted up tomorrow and eventually keep adding larger and larger pots to support some serious growth....See Morewestes Zone 9b California SF Bay
11 months agofloral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
11 months agolast modified: 11 months agowestes Zone 9b California SF Bay thanked floral_uk z.8/9 SW UKwestes Zone 9b California SF Bay
11 months agowestes Zone 9b California SF Bay
11 months ago
floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK