Bignonia capreolata 'Helen Fredel' prophouse-winter-2027 weeping take on the classic

weeping take on the classic boxwood

creamy white to pale yellow and often lit with an orange eye

Native across much of North America

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

and behind those stand thousands more good selections that were grown

Bignonia capreolata 'Helen Fredel' prophouse-winter-2027 weeping take on the classicCrossvine 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.