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Versatile Vine
Cardinal climber is suitable for arbors, trellises, fences, and posts: it will grow easily in nearly any place you want!
Cardinal Climber (Ipomoea Quamoclit Cardinalis)
Easy to grow from seeds, this is an annual vine that you must have if you like hummingbirds! Cardinal climber seeds will produce this easy to care for vine with red trumpet-shaped flowers. The leaves are a bright green that wonderfully contrasts with the scarlet blooms. This a profuse bloomer that will remain in flower throughout the summer, and its vining tendrils will climb anything they can reach.
The cardinal climber is a hybrid plant, being a cross between red morning glory and cypress vine. It is ideal to place this plant near a trellis or another garden structure to let it climb away. However, it can also be planted as a ground cover or in a container. It grows densely on the ground, with its lacy and feathery leaves creating a sort of half-screen. In a hanging basket, the vine will first climb upwards, but will eventually fall back down to hang over the basket rim.
Beautiful Scarlet Blooms
How To Grow
It is best to soak these seeds overnight before planting in order to prep germination. Plant indoors 4-6 weeks before the last expected frost. Cover with 1/4 inch of soil and keep moist until germination.
These seeds can also be started directly outdoors after all danger of frost has passed. Sow the seeds into a prepared seedbed when soil has warmed to 70F degrees.
Cardinal climbers should be sheltered from from cold, drying winds. Prune back in the spring for a tidier appearance and habit. In warm climates, these plants will aggressively self-seed.
Plant Specifications
- Season: annual
- USDA Zones: 6-11
- Bloom color: red
- Environment: full sun
- Bloom season: summer and fall
- Soil: well-drained, pH 6.1-7.8
- Sowing rate: 2-3 seeds per plant
- Height: 180-240 inches (vining)
Favorite of Pollinators
Cardinal climbers will bring a variety of pollinators to your garden: hummingbirds especially will come, but bees and butterflies will as well.
Karyn
2025-08-03 14:01:00
Highly impressed with the cardinal vines! The hummingbirds love them! They grew very tall and beautiful! I will be buying again next Spring for me, and friends and family!
Patricia
2025-07-22 15:58:07
Minor in the ground and growing and the hummingbirds last year would buzz around in the little tiny trumpet flowers and so I wanted to make sure I had these for them again this year. I live in zone 8B and the plant grows and doesn't really Bloom until around September.
kathytn
2025-07-05 18:20:02
It's way too early to give a full review as the "frost free" date here is May 1. I have planted the seeds in pots so that I have decent size plants to put outside in another 6 weeks. They took awhile to pop thru the soil. I should have done what I did in years past - nick the seeds with a knife before planting. If you have never purchased Cardinal Vines before, you will be amazed at how they grow and vine out. Best part, they aren't "sticky" like some vines are. Very easy to remove at the end of the season - with no stain left on your fence post, etc.
RPM
2025-07-04 12:01:19
What you see is an arbor about to sprout morning glories from seed. The cardinal climbers planted alongside then were a joke. They did eventually arrive but were peculiarly anemic and rather small, somewhat 1/4 the size of a morning glory. Extremely disappointed. I was looking for a climbing flower that was deer-resistant but these "Cardinal Climbers" are extremely tiny and hide behind their leaf foliage: in short, I would not recommend them at all. Scraggly and reticent, they are tiny, tiny flowers that produce more foliage than flower. The red hanging plant in the arbor is artificial, but the rest are real. If you have a small space that is deer-proof then you might try Climbing Cardinal, but I found it a scrabbly little wanna-be flower with no pop or pizazz. It's more weed than flower in my opinion, so I will continue to search for deer-resistant climbing flowers. One star. Major disappointment.
Customer
2025-05-31 13:05:57
I'll order again next spring! Thank you!
Minnie
2025-05-07 14:10:14
The vine grow profusely, but it took two months before a bloom appeared. The hummers love it.
Cosimo Ogly
2025-03-01 16:22:27
I used to have success growing these when I lived in Florida and I was looking for something free-flowering that would grow here in central TX alkaline soils. Since the 'soil' in the Keys had to be alkaline as well, I decided to give these a try. The seeds had an excellent germination rate, but those I've got in potting soil are much larger (and blooming) than those in the ground. So they don't appear to like the soil here, but we will see if they catch up. Its also clear the deer will eat them. This variety is a very deep red, quite beautiful and the hummers like them.
26384
2025-01-06 17:15:11
We planted these this spring and they’re coming up great not tall enough to climb yet so we’ll see how they do
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