It is a good choice for attracting bees, butterflies and hummingbirds to your yard. It is related to Common Trumpet Creeper (Campsis radicans, also classified as Bignonia radicans) and Cat’s Claw Vine (Bignonia tweediana), which is classified as aggressive growing. The vine is in the Bignonia genus and capreolata family. This woody vine will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and is best pruned in late winter once the threat of extreme cold has passed. Tangerine Beauty Crossvine is easy to grow and can get big in a short time. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition. Tangerine Beauty Cross Vine is a multi-stemmed deciduous woody vine with a twining and trailing habit of growth. The fruits are showy brown pods displayed from late summer to early fall. The glossy narrow leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color. It has green foliage throughout the season. I’ve lost track of the variety names of the irises, but who cares? Their vibrant, colorful presence is all I need.Tangerine Beauty Cross Vine features showy lightly-scented orange trumpet-shaped flowers with yellow throats along the branches from mid to late spring, which emerge from distinctive red flower buds. Most of them are Louisiana iris varieties a few other water-loving types are also blooming happily in the muddy water. He also couldn’t resist the abundant and colorful water-loving irises blooming on our increasingly wet floodplain. I especially wanted him to shoot the Tangerine Beauty Crossvine ( Bignonia capreolata ‘Tangerine Beauty’) growing on a sizable loblolly pine and blooming ten feet above my head where my camera couldn’t do it justice. While he was outside, Wonder Spouse couldn’t resist photographing some of the abundant blooms currently open these days. The grosbeaks did not visit the feeders in the same numbers or with the same frequency, but he did get some very nice photos I’m sharing in this post. He got a number of decent shots, but unsatisfied, he eventually took his apparatus outdoors to try for shots unobstructed by a pane of glass. Yesterday, he set up his camera indoors in front of the window with the best view of the feeders. I had been unable to get any photographs of them, so I asked Wonder Spouse to get out his long lens and tripod to capture these beautiful visitors. These visitors are much more shy than the year-round birds that routinely scold me if I let their feeders go empty. Today makes the nineteenth day in a row that male and female birds of this species have visited our feeders and foraged in our trees and shrubs. This spring has been exceptional most notably for the prolonged visits of Rose-breasted Grosbeaks. Waterfowl overwinter in growing numbers in the wetland, and migrating birds stop by in spring and fall to refuel before heading off to complete their journeys.

Most species that nest in my region nest near or on our land. One of the ways I know our efforts to build suitable habitats have been successful is by the creatures that visit. My brain explodes at the mere thought of trying to count every native species now living nearby or on our land, and that’s a good thing.

Wildlife abounds because of the wetland, and because we’ve spent 31 years planting native trees, shrubs, grasses, and wildflowers well-adapted to our land. Our five acres are a haven of peace amidst the ever-growing chaos, especially because a growing beaver-built wetland adjoins our land on two sides. Dozens of new subdivisions connect to it multiple schools were erected nearby even a fire station is now staffed 24/7, so trucks and ambulances, sirens blaring, pass by at all hours. Now that once-quiet road roars with traffic twenty-four hours a day.

Thirty-one years ago, we found five acres on what was then a country road. Wonder Spouse and I don’t live in a suburb. A female Rose-breasted Grosbeak atop the feeder with a female Red-bellied Woodpecker enjoying the suet.

Tangerine beauty crossvine