Vines: Beautiful Climbers to Enhance Your Garden
by CutestPrincess on Oct 04, 2009 with 16 Comments
When you’re in a tight spot and the only way to grow is up, these annual vines create a curtain of color in just a few weeks.
Hyacinth Bean Vine
Attractive flowers, stems, leaves and fruit-this vine has it all. Dark green, purple-veined foliage with burgundy stems sport large spiked clusters of pea-like blossoms that mature into ruby-purple seed pods. And since it’s a legume, the vine adds nitrogen (helpful to growing plants) to the soil.
Morning Glory
The wonderful, old-fashioned flower blooms in blue, pink, purple, red or white, and the vine will reach 10 feet or more within the first two months when planted in full sun. avoid soil conditions that are too fertile or moist, or you’ll end up with more foliage than flowers.
Moonflower Vine
In the late afternoon, buds unfurl into saucer-size (5-inch), alabaster-white flowers that last only until morning. The vine is covered with loads of buds that don’t all bloom the same night, so the flower show lasts all summer, perfuming the evening air with sweet fragrance.
Cypress Vine
Butterflies and hummingbirds love the nectar in cypress vine’s vibrant scarlet-red tubular flowers. It can climb to 20 feet but won’t shallow up everything in this path, and the feathery foliage gives it a beautiful appearance.
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Christine Ramsay | Oct 4, 2009 | Reply
Those look very pretty and should enhance any garden. Nice work.
Christine
Uma Shankari | Oct 4, 2009 | Reply
Good ideas. I love the sight of vines.
Mythili Kannan | Oct 4, 2009 | Reply
Very pretty and nice ideas
fishfry aka Elizabeth Figueroa | Oct 4, 2009 | Reply
Awesome article with great ideas.
Eunice Tan | Oct 4, 2009 | Reply
Very beautiful. Good article!
cutedrishti8 | Oct 4, 2009 | Reply
great piece of ideas..
Radhika | Oct 4, 2009 | Reply
Good tips…..These are really good nd beautiful flowers
CHAN LEE PENG | Oct 4, 2009 | Reply
pretty pic and nice description. Thanks.
papaleng | Oct 5, 2009 | Reply
lovely flowers that are truly good addition to a garden.
giftarist | Oct 5, 2009 | Reply
Wow..very nice piece..informative and great suggestions for gardening.
Melody Arcamo Lagrimas | Oct 5, 2009 | Reply
Gorgeous flowers.
strovek | Oct 5, 2009 | Reply
Gorgeous. Love them.
Ruby Hawk | Oct 5, 2009 | Reply
I love all vines, moon flower vines especially. I used to go out at midnight to see mine.
DUNDAS20012002 | Oct 7, 2009 | Reply
I love this article, I like flowers, No use though when you live in a condo with strict rules,
MMV Abad | Oct 8, 2009 | Reply
Beautiful flowers. One day I am going to have a garden then I’ll find these vines.
revivor | Oct 9, 2009 | Reply
love the pics