Features and Growing Tips

Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.

Landscape Qualities

Madame Galen Trumpetvine is a dense multi-stemmed deciduous woody vine with a twining and trailing habit of growth. Its average texture blends into the landscape | but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

Ornamental Qualities

Madame Galen Trumpetvine features bold clusters of orange trumpet-shaped flowers with scarlet overtones and yellow throats at the ends of the branches from mid summer to early fall. It has dark green deciduous foliage. The serrated pointy pinnately compound leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color.

Planting and Growing

Madame Galen Trumpetvine will grow to be about 20 feet tall at maturity | with a spread of 24 inches. As a climbing vine | it tends to be leggy near the base and should be underplanted with low-growing facer plants. It should be planted near a fence | trellis or other landscape structure where it can be trained to grow upwards on it | or allowed to trail off a retaining wall or slope. It grows at a fast rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 20 years.

This woody vine does best in full sun to partial shade. It is very adaptable to both dry and moist locations | and should do just fine under average home landscape conditions. It is considered to be drought-tolerant | and thus makes an ideal choice for xeriscaping or the moisture-conserving landscape. It is not particular as to soil type or pH | and is able to handle environmental salt. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.

Plant Facts

Prefers full sun to partial shade

Deer Resistant

Keep moisture level dry to moist

Mature Size 20'Hx24"W

Flowers are orange

Flowers from mid summer to early fall

Attracts birds; hummingbirds

Zone 5b

Likes average to moist soil