Hello everyone!

I found a HUGE wild trumpet vine (Campsis radicans) growing on
a Willow oak
in a cow field. It is about 6 or 7 inches in diameter. I saw
one growing in a
pot at the National Arboretum, so I figured it would grow good
in container
culture. Is this true for native trumpet vines? How well do
they
transplant....and how much of a root system do they require to
come out with it? I think what
I am going to do is, this spring, cut it back a LOT. Then allow
it to grow
new 'branches' for a year. Then the following early spring, I
will come back and
transplant it to a large pot. This way, I can ellimate the
suckering problem
in my yard and also have a higher chance of survival. How does
this sound?
Also, does anyone know of someone who grows this species for
bonsai? I
appreciate it!


Sam, it's on my list, but I haven't tried it yet. I can see no
reason it would not make a nice bonsai. It has large compound
leaves, though, so it would have to be a fairly large one.

I'd also take a sharp shovel and cut half way around the root --
maybe even this fall. Cut the other half in the spring, then dig
it NEXT winter.

Please keep me posted. My woods are full of this stuff -- as are
my pasture fence lines. You can be my guinea pig. ;-)

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Let us spend
one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the
track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the
rails. -- Henry David Thoreau

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