When you need to dress up an unsightly building or repaint a fence, skip the hardware store and track down a crossvine. The easy-to-grow woody vine—a close relative of trumpet vine (Campsis ...
It seems the gardening world has gone crazy with arbors, trellises, towers, fences and more. Everyone is looking for perfect or unusual vines to drape or climb these structures. One of the best ...
Next time you are looking for a plant to dress up a fence, building or just want to add a trellis with color, consider Crossvine (Bignonia capreolata). It is easy to grow and clings to most surfaces ...
'Tangerine Beauty' (Bignonia capreolata) is a form of crossvine, native to the southern United States. Make sure a site can handle it before you plant one. Vigorous and evergreen, it can grow to 60 ...
It can be tricky to incorporate vines into modern landscapes. For starters, they require some type of structure to grow on, whether it’s a fence, an arbor, a trellis, a pergola or something else. If ...
Our long, hot summer season is bookended with bignonia blossoms. No, I didn’t say begonias, those ever popular bedding plants that flower 365 days a year. Bignonias (Bignoniaceae family), on the other ...
Q: The recent column about invasive evergreen vine removal got me thinking. I’ve taken some out recently that was covering a fence and part of the ground. Admittedly, I’m missing the lush evergreen ...