Campsis, Trumpet Vine, Trumpet Creeper 'Summer Jazz Gold'

I love this plant, but I will agree with the person who said that the sellers lie about the size of the plant. It is much much bigger. 6 ...Read Morefeet by 3 feet is what is often listed, and that is just ridiculously not true. It does stay small for a few years, but after that, look out! I have had mine for about 5 or 6 years, and it's doing very well. It just needs regular and aggressive pruning to control it. It did send up a few sprouts from it's roots, but they were easy to dig up and were close to the mother plant. Last summer I cut it back to a 2 foot stump and it sent up new tendrils that I tied to a 6 foot trellis. this year those tendrils sprouted many new flowering branches and it looks great. I will have to prune it yearly if I want it to be able to stay on the trellis. It's an aggressive grower, but still much smaller than the old fashioned trumpet vines.

I just tore this vine out after 4 years in ground. It is spreading by root offsets, some as far away as four feet from the mother plant. ...Read MoreI found one nursery which does say its is a grafted plant. The three foot growth mentioned on the tag is not honest, and shows that people just want to get these new plants to market fast. If in fact its is grafted to root stock of our native trumpet vine (Campsis radicans), it will of course put out runners and in time take over the garden. My plant did not stay 3' tall - far from it. I pulled 14' stems out of the neighbor's trees.

I would not advise anyone to plant this because the hybridizer's description is not accurate. It was developed in Holland and they likely don't have the kind of climate most of us in the U.S. have. Perhaps the U.S. native species doesn't thrive there. Now I will likely have to poison the roots to keep it from coming back.