Orange Flowered Climbers
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Hoping someone can help!
I need a climber or two or more!
I have been looking at climbers for the last 18 months or so to cover a falling over cottage, 350mm difference from one side to the next over a distance of 10mtrs!
I'm very much into wildlife and conservation but at the same time need something that's manageable too.
Considering a native ivy as well as Boston Ivy which is actually a vine, thought about a wisteria.
Looked at flame nasturtium "tropaeolum speciosum" as an added extra for colour.
Now on a bus journey some distance from home in the west riding I briefly spotted something amazing growing up a large wall some 7mtrs or so high by 3 to 4mtrs wide with large'ish deep orange flowers on a dark green backdrop of leaves. Wow it looked outstanding.
Having googled orange flowering climbers the closest I came up with was "Black Eyed Susan Vine" (Thunbergia Alata Sunrise Orange) but it's described as an annual that's not all that hardy but the specimen I saw has clearly been there for ever and has I assume survived recent extreme winter temperatures.
What do you think it could be to be in flower so large so early in the year?
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could it be lonicera brownii dropmore scarlet? Wee bit early to flower, but after a mild winter??????
Thank you for the reply and suggestion but no, flowers far too small. The flowers were fairly large in size with a clear black centre to them
My Campsis is only just getting it's foliage here in the Fens, be a while before it flowers with custard yellow trumpets
..the clear black centre is puzzling..but you say you only saw it briefly?... difficult to think Thunbergia would have survived the winter, even this last one, but like Philippa says, anything seems possible this year... yet you say it looks as though it's been there a long time... so..
....I'm wondering perhaps if you saw a climbing rose..? there are orange ones... and I'm not suggesting you don't know what a rose looks like...but at a glance..?... another is a plant called Fremontodendron 'California Glory'.. this is evergreen and grows huge on a wall.. the flowers are yellow, sometimes with a maroon centre... but the flower buds are strongly coloured orange...it's probably in flower now wherever it's grown...
..just a thought to go with the others..
I have an eccremocarpus that has survived the winter, and has been flowering since March. Though perennial it is supposed to be tender and I didn't expect it to survive. This last winter has been so mild it is possible it is Thunbergia alata. I wouldn't expect it to survive next winter though.
Sounds like Campsis to me. Was it like this?
Thank you everybody for your replies, been back for another look.
It looked just as impressive as it was a few weeks back, this time I went over to visit friends in my own vehicle and stopped to have a good look.
Decided to walk up the garden path and have a look / knock on the owners door when I quickly realised the plant was Plastic!!!!!!!!!!
It is a "Black Eyed Susan Vine" but a plastic one!
Sorry to have troubled everybody.
And its 7 metres high? I wonder where you'd buy such a thing from. Did it look horrible close up?
From the roadside and to someone passing by it looks seriously impressive indeed. I realised it was plastic as soon as I was stood by the side of it at the front door, bear in mind I assumed it was the real thing and I was very disappointed. I didn't bother to knock on the door and left.
Knowing it was plastic from the roadside it looked false and far too good to be true.
I didn't hang around, I didn't look at it in any detail but I assume that it was mounted on the wall in several repeated sections, each section not joined onto but touching the next which gave the impression from a distance of one larger continuous plant.
Stood by the side of it, it was clearly plastic and you can get some seriously good plastic plants today now even close up you have look real close to tell.