Texas Gardening: Who has coral vine or queens wreath, 1 by crowellli

crowellli wrote:
My coral vine is blooming and has been for a while now. We've also been in drought conditions here in Houston and our temps are similar to yours. We've had a lot of days with temps at 100 or above. Your's may just not be well enough established yet to bloom. Mine usually freezes to the ground or I whack them back to the ground each winter, and they still get 30 feet of more of runners with blooms every year.

I'm assuming you've seen these in bloom. They are truly beautiful when they bloom, but if you keep it trimmed, you might not get any flowers. It blooms on the ends and they have a tendancy to run up something then the blooms hang down, similar to wisteria. Here's a close up pic of some of the blooms.