Please find for sale 50+ fresh Campsis Radicans, better known as Trumpet Vine or Trumpet Creeper.

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The orange trumpet vine is favoured by gardeners for its heavy, clean dark green foliage, and sturdy stems, tipped with clusters of bold trumpet-shaped flowers in shades of scarlet and flaming orange. Whilst it can be grown as a standalone bush, it is typically used to provide attractive screening to otherwise attractive structures such as fences, trellises, oil tanks etc. They are not suitable however for growing on house wall walls as they can damage the render in the brickwork.

Germination Guide

Trumpet Vine seeds require a very modest amount of "stratification" to make for maximum germination. In a nutshell stratification is a technique used by gardeners to trick seeds into thinking winter has passed and its time to sprout! Most cold climate seeds from the Northern Hemisphere require this  - if an acorn was to sprout in October, it would be killed by the frost in winter. This is however quite simple to achieve following the guide below: 
  • Sow indoors from Autumn to Spring
  • Mix the seeds with some moist but not wet compost mix (ideally 50/50 sieved potting compost and vermiculite)
  • Place in a freezer-type bag and cold stratify at the bottom of the fridge for 2 weeks
  • Remove seed tray from fridge and add a few millimetres of sieved compost or vermiculite over the seeds
  • Place in a warm bright location but out of direct sunlight - 17-22c is fine
  • Do not allow compost to dry out
  • Germination should take 2-4 weeks
  • Pot on and gradually harden off seedlings before planting out one risk of frost has passed.

Alternatively, seeds can be sown into a cold frame in autumn where natural winter cold will offer ideal conditions for germination to occur in spring as the weather warms.

Olly's General Guide to Seed Sowing!

I love sowing seeds and it runs in the family - dad, granddad and finally my great-granddad for whom the hobby helped him get over his experiences in the Great War. I still get a big kick when I see the first seedling poking through from a new plant that I have never sown before or been successful at. However, even the most experienced gardeners draw "blanks" from time to time. Whilst I sow all the seeds that I sell so I know that they are viable, some are trickier than others and problems can arise so here are some tips to make "blanks" few and far between:

1) Don’t Rush! Tempting though it is when that packet arrives in the post to simply bung the seeds in some compost!

2) Google and YouTube are your friends! Take some time so see the methods other people use to germinate the seed. 

3) Think Nature! What conditions do seeds face? For example a seed from a tropical plant will fall to the warm, wet and dark jungle floor. A seed from the mountains of Europe will fall to the floor in Autumn, then have to endure months of freezing temperatures before germinating in the spring. So as growers, what we are trying to do is to simulate the conditions that the seeds will naturally experience and there are plenty of tricks that can be done to short cut the processes somewhat.

4) Good compost pays dividends. The best investment you can make is to purchase three bags - one of potting compost, one of vermiculite and one of horticultural sand. With these three bags I can make up whatever soil type a particular seed likes (although for most seeds I find a 50/50 mix of compost and vermiculite works just fine) 

5) Rot is your enemy. The single biggest danger to seed germination is rot - either before or after "damping off" the seeds germinate. To reduce the risk, ensure you have good free draining soil mix and that it is moist but not wet. Unless the seed variety absolutely requires it I prefer NOT to cover my seeds trays with plastic bags, Whilst germination is often faster this way, it greatly increases the risk of rot. I prefer to place my seed trans inside a watertight plastic tray and water from the bottom - airflow over the surface reduces the risk.


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