Campsis radicans x grandiflora Orangeade

The Orangeade Trumpet Vine, also known as Campsis x tagliabuana Orangeade, is a recent, unique, and elegant French hybrid that blooms from a young age, from May to September, with beautiful red-orange trumpets marbled with pale orange. Its deciduous foliage takes on a lovely bright green shade, which creates a beautiful backdrop for the flowering. It attaches itself to supports using its branches equipped with climbing roots. It is undemanding in terms of soil type, and quite hardy, thriving in sunny or partially shaded climates.

Campsis x tagliabuana is a plant from the Bignoniaceae family, resulting from a cross-breeding between Campsis radicans, native to the hot and dry regions of the southeastern United States, and Campsis grandiflora, native to China. Recently obtained by a French nursery, the 'Orangeade' trumpet vine is a deciduous vine with a woody base that produces underground stolons. It grows rapidly and can reach a height of 5 to 8 metres (16 to 26 feet) in a few years. The abundant flowering occurs from the early years of cultivation. It is very spread out, starting in June and continuing until September or October. The flowers bloom in the axils of the leaves, in dense clusters of 4 to 12 trumpets, 5 cm (2in) long, with 5 lobes. Each flower is different, but they are all variegated with red-orange and pale orange, sometimes favouring red, sometimes pastel orange. The deciduous foliage is composed of leaves divided into 7 to 11 ovate leaflets with crenate edges. It is its branches equipped with climbing roots that allow the plant to attach itself to its support.

Campsis x tagliabuana 'Orangeade' can be used anywhere, to cover a wall sheltered from cold winds, an unsightly building, a well-exposed facade, a fence, or an old wall. This plant can withstand temperatures down to -15°C/-20°C (-4°F) and must be protected from strong winds that could bend its branches. That is its only requirement and perhaps its only weakness since it can grow in any ordinary but well-draining soil, even occasionally dry or slightly calcareous, without hindering its joyful flowering. For example, you can combine it with other unique climbing plants such as Actinidia kolomikta, Clematis 'Black Tea', or Clematis 'H F Young', which has a vibrant blue colour, to create a colourful scene.