(enter music from the movie "Jaws"),...It will get loose! :) Arum

Honestly, I don't know if it will grow in a pot but Arum is right. It will get away from you. For every flower it produces come 100 seeds in a pod. If you miss one pod, it is away from you. I have been trying to kill one all summer so my advice would be pick a different vine. Nevermind the fact that letting a trumpet vine crawl on a house is a bad idea. It attaches itself by planting very heavy roots into whatever surface it is clinging to. Even the small crawlers ripped into my siding when I tried to detach it from the house. BAD vine, stay away.:) I wish I had another suggestion for you. I grow a lot of clematis but they don't cling to surfaces. If you decide to put lattice on it, a jackmani would cover it in about three years. I also have the sweet autumn clematis that has grown really tall in one year. Good luck. Sherri

I agree with Arum and Sherri, find something else. Trumpet vines are evil, uncontrollable and impossible to destroy!
Karyn

Thank you all for your advise!

I guess I should pick something except trumpet vine. But I can't believe they get loose from the pot... Oh well...

I will probably try clematis next spring.

Thank you all!
-b

Still chuckling about the Jaw's music.

I am on my 3rd summer of trying to destroy the stuff. I eventually dug up my entire bed, sprayed it with professional grade poison (which I am categorically opposed to)and covered it with landscape cloth. Every couple of weeks I hand pick the 3-4 new vines.

It wreaked havoc on our siding.

Does anyone have an opinion on Virginia Creeper? I am in the market for a vine to replace the sinister trumpet. I understand VA Creeper isn't as harmful to structures, but that can be a bit aggressive too.

I am also considering Climbing Hydrangea and Crimson Glory. Any advice?

Erin

It won't actually get loose from the pot necessarily but the seeds will be growing out of your reach and under heavy foliage so they may go unnoticed. Once they find dirt, you will have 100 new seedlings to battle and watch out if you miss one. And the worst nightmare is pulling them off of your house only to realize that they are rooted to it and keep growing onto the roof. They really are invasive.

Trumpet vines are beautiful but yeah, they can spread pretty easy and then it's real hard to reverse. They climb by rooting themselves to whatever and if you tear them off the roots will stay on. It's not harmful but it looks bad. So I wouldn't let them climb on or around your house. They are great on wooden fences though.

Erin, are you interested in other choices besides Boston Ivy or trumpet vine? If so, tell us the growing conditions (space, light, moisture), where in the country you are and growing zone as well as whether you would be willing to add a support structure such as a trellis rather than having it cling directly to the fence. I grow clematis and the native trumpet honeysuckle, Lonicera sempervirens 'Major Wheeler', either of which would be more ornamental and need less work to control vs. the trumpet vine/Campsis radicans.

Wow, I live in the south and my ten year old trumpet vine is fabulous! It must be the variety? I have a tangerine beauty, and yes, it is a bit stress I’ve, but I’ve never found it anywhere else in my big back yard.

I LOVE It! This thread is old, and I was wondering about moving some of mine to containers.
Here it is

https://agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/2022/04/21/tangerine-beauty-crossvine-named-new-texas-superstar/

Oh dear—I just realized (above) that the CROSSVINE is the cousin to the trumpet vine—I’ve just always called mine a trumpet vine.

Anyway, the above crossvine is FABULOUS! Tolerant to zone 6

While this is a very old thread, I just thought I would add that growing a trumpet vine, Campsis radicans, in a container is not going to work. Or not work without some pretty intense monitoring and attention. Its roots will rapidly fill the container and then seek out and escape via any drainage holes. If a container without drainage holes, the vine will succumb to root rot.

Bamboo barrier might be a better containment plan, provided it was deep enough to limit any root spread, but I sure wouldn't guarantee it!