These annual and perennial flowering vines will take your garden to gorgeous heights.
Flowering vines are an easy way to fill vertical spaces in your garden with life and color.
Also called Bengal clock vine, this fast grower is a perennial vine in mild climates.
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It can be brought indoors as a houseplant in colder northern regions during the winter.
When grown as an annual, blue sky vine can grow up to 8 feet in one season.
Grow bougainvillea ona sturdy wall or trellisthat can support the plants woody habit and vigorous growth.
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Be sure to plant this vine away from a walkway to avoid getting poked by the plants long thorns.
The vines foliage is attractive too with its bluish-green deeply lobed leaves.
Its golden yellow, trumpet-shaped,fragrant blooms brighten the gardenwhen few other plants are in flower.
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It’s a fast-growing vine and will reach towering heights if left unpruned and given adequate support.
Use Carolina jessamine to screen a view or add color to a woodland garden.
The delicate purple and white flowers entice passersby with their chocolate fragrance and beauty.
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Except for the roots, all of this plant’s parts are edible and have a peppery flavor.
Eventually, you’ll be rewarded with masses of jewel-tone flowers.
develop long canes adapted to training on pillars, fences, arbors, and gazebos.
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Most climbing roses are mutations or variations of bush-punch in varieties.
Climbers may bloom once a season or continually, depending on the punch in.
Regulardeadheading of the flowerscan help to encourage continuous blooms throughout the growing season.
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The easy-to-grow vine attracts hummingbirds and uses its tendrils to twine around its support structures.
It’s also calledhummingbird vinebecause hummingbirds flock to the bright red, nectar-rich blooms.
Cypress vine will often self-sow, but excess seedlings are easy to remove.
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There’s also dwarf clematis that grows just 3 feet tall, perfect for containers.
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Climbing Hydrangea
If you lovebeautiful hydrangea flowers, then youll loveclimbing hydrangea(Hydrangea anomalasubsp.petiolaris).
Its blooms keep on giving indried floral arrangements.
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Before planting the vine, double-check you choose a location that will support its mature size.
If the vine becomes too dense or overwhelming, prune dead or damaged branches soon after it blooms.
Be sure to give this fast-growing vine the support of a trellis, wall, fence, or arbor.
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might look tropical, but these climbing perennials prefer a northern climate.
Raw hyacinth beans are toxic,so it’s best to use this plant as an ornamental.
This elegantperennial vinehas dark green, leathery leaves topped with clusters of trumpet-shaped, sweetly scented white flowers.
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Thisheat-tolerant vinecomes in single and double white, red, pink, and red-and-white flowers.
Mandevilla thrives in hot weather and makes a top-rate container plant, growing on a low trellis or tripod.
This low-maintenance climbing plant can brighten your porch, patio, deck, or balcony.
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Each flower only lasts one night, but the vine will produce many flowers over the growing season.
This vine is a must formoon gardens, where they’ll appear to glow at night in the moonlight.
Available in a wide range of colors and bi-colors, this annual is a snap to grow.
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Morning glory often self-sows prolifically, but unwanted seedlings are easy to remove.
Gardeners enjoy this vine’s beautiful flowers, too.
The petals are white and purple with a darker purple crown and yellow center.
It grows well with clematis and is not poisonous to dogs or cats.
If the plant starts to outgrow its allotted space,prune it soon after it flowers.
Although native to the southeastern U.S., trumpet vine can grow and spread aggressively, smothering other plants.
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It’s best planted where it’s possible for you to keep it contained.
Be sure toplant the native species,Wisteria frutescens, commonly called American wisteria.
Steer clear ofWisteria sinensisandWisteria floribunda,which are invasive in several areas of the United States.
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Size:Up to 30 feet tall
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