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How to Grow a Tangerine Beauty Crossvine

Tangerine Beauty (Bignonia capreolata “Tangerine Beauty”) is a cultivar of the cross vine suitable for growing on a trellis, fence, wall or arbor. Tangerine Beauty can be “spectacular” in full bloom, notes the Missouri Botanical Garden, generating tangerine-orange flowers during May and June. Tangerine Beauty may grow 30 feet long, featuring evergreen leaves in the warmer parts of its range. The flowers attract different hummingbird types, notes the University of Arizona Pima County Cooperative extension. Tangerine Beauty works well as a vine adorning archways.

Instructions

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      Select Tangerine Beauty as a landscaping vine if you live between U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 5 through 9. In the coldest zones, this vine may die to ground level during a severe winter, but it grows back from its root system in the spring.

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      Place a Tangerine Beauty cross vine in full sunshine allowing the plant to produce the most flowers. This vine handles partial shade and even full shade scenarios, but it generates more flowers when you put it where it gets a full helping of sunshine during the daytime.

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      Locate Tangerine Beauty cross vine in medium-moisture soil that drains well. This type of vine grows in many soil conditions, reports Floridata. This vine tolerates drought once it takes hold in the landscape.

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      Remove the root suckers from an established Tangerine Beauty vine. The new growth spreads out, causing the vine to look unkempt. Prune back the vine, but only after the plant finishes flowering.

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      Train the young Tangerine Beauty vine onto a fence or trellis. The vine begins climbing toward the sun, grabbing hold of structures via their adhesive discs on the end of small, branching tendrils. Once it starts maturing, the vine produces plenty of green foliage, covering structures as it climbs or sprawls.

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      Mulch the Tangerine Beauty vine’s roots of the in the colder zones preparing the plant for cold winters. In the coldest regions where this vine grows, offer it protection from winter winds by planting it where the breezes cannot directly affect them.