Uploaded by zuditaka on Jan 24, 2011
Here's one of my favourite things--Campsis grandiflora. I think it may also be called Chinese Trumpet Vine, or Orange Trumpet Vine, by some. Who cares what it's called? It sure is gorgeous, and always flames for us well, every summer. I have it planted wherever I can, but the long drought of the past decade rather knocked them back.
These vines are quite tough and drought-resistant. They are relatives of Wonga vines and Jacaranda trees. You can notice this if you contemplate their flowers and seed-pods, carefully. These vines have very light, paper-thin seeds, too. I suppose, maybe, to catch the wind and travel.
The orange trumpet flowers don't have any scent, but certainly there must be some nectar, in there, to attract all those ants.
I think plant breeders should breed white trumpets, with strawberry jam veins and centres. Now that would be very nice, too.
One good trick for flower arrangers to know is that, if you bend a new stem leading to some flowers, just as they are forming trumpets, the result will be pretty paler apricot-coloured blooms, rather than the usual bright orange ones. This starving the flowers of nutrients, however, results in smaller blooms; but, yes, from a creative floristry point of view, it's very handy to know this!
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Amazing. I want to live there!
theressomethinghere 10 months ago
@theressomethinghere Hmmm! You should plant a pretty vine where you are, too! Create paradise around you, wherever you are! ♥
zuditaka 10 months ago