Last year I bought some seeds off of good old Ebay, they were sold to me as Orange Trumpet Vine Seeds. I planted them, and sure enough, a little wiry string-like vine grew, and had beautiful tiny (and I mean end of my pinky-finger tiny) orange trumpet flowers on it. Only one little flower every 6 inches or so on the vine, but they were Orange Trumpets. Now today I got a Orange Trumpet Creeper (Campsis radicans) vine and it is nothing like those ones. The flowers are huge and in clusters! Anyone know anything about the little one I planted? I can't seem to find it on Google, all that comes up is the large Orange Trumpet flowers. Thanx!
No, it's definitely the Campsis radicans, I'm just learning all the terminology and I just looked up the grandiflora and they're not nearly as tubular as the radicans. Thanx though!
Okay, these are the little orange flowers I bought the seeds off of Ebay... I can't find anything via Google searches... Any educated guesses from the UBC Gang?
Which illustrates the point - common names can be very confusing and can easily trip up the unsuspecting.
Well, I stuck the roots in a pot, I see some new growth on them, so looks like next year I'll have a nice creeper. Thanx.
Yup, those roots will survive just about anything. I hope you keep it in a pot so it doesn't destroy your lovely garden. Newt
