Bignonia capreolata 'Helen Fredel' prophouse-winter-2027 decades ago

decades ago

weeping take on the classic boxwood

a small living thread back to Fred Heutte's Norfolk garden

Clethra alnifolia

the species has been grown in warm-climate gardens long enough that the origins are often forgotten

Bignonia capreolata 'Helen Fredel' prophouse-winter-2027 decades agoCrossvine is a high climbing, semi evergreen native vine with bright trumpet flowers, and 'Helen Fredel' is a large flowered selection in red orange with a yellow throat, a shade between the old varieties 'Atrosanguinea' and 'Tangerine Beauty'. Climbing high by tendrils and adhesive holdfasts, the crossvine flowers heavily in early summer and again, more lightly, later, and shows to best effect on a fence, an arbor, or a trellis in sun or part shade.