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RE: Blaze into the Spring with the Orange Trumpet Vine

in #pyrostegia6 years ago

A beautiful plant, my friend and Pyrostegia venusta is a low-maintenance vine, but like all vining plants, pruning is something it cannot do without!

Light: Prefers full sun to light shade. Tolerates partial shade but grows and blooms best with good sunlight.
Moisture: Medium water needs. Though highly drought tolerant when established, good to water regularly especially during hot and dry seasons.
Soil: Moderately fertile, light and moist, but well-drained soil. It tolerates many kind of soils: acidic, alkaline, clayey, sandy or loamy.
Others: Hard prune after flowering to encourage branching and promote more flowers, as well as to restrain huge and unruly size. It’s hardy and can tolerate severe prune if needed. Benefits from fortnightly or monthly feed with a flowering fertilizer though it require minimal feeding. Generally, pest and disease free but do watch out occasionally for scales, caterpillars and mites.
For subtropical regions: Hardiness: USDA Zone 9-11. Blooms sporadically all year long but perform best from late fall through winter but not in freezing regions. Shelter from cold winds and frost that may ruin young flowers and plant.

Propagation: Easily propagated vegetatively from semi-hard cuttings, suckers or layering. Also, by seed germination.
Usage: As a spectacular ornamental vine, Flame Vine is excellent for landscaping and to cover and decorate garden fences, trellises, arbors and arches and walls. Train them high if possible for the dramatic and spectacular floral display. For subtropical and frost-free regions, grow it to bring sunshine to your winter garden as it blooms best in winter when most others are sleeping.
Grow it as an attractant for hummingbirds and other pollinators if you’re a nature lover.
Pyrostegia venusta is used in traditional Brazilian medicine as a general tonic for treating diarrhea, vitiligo, cough, and common diseases of the respiratory system related to infections, such as bronchitis, flu and cold (ref.: NCBI, US PubMed). Thank you @ctrl-alt-nwo

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