Vines for your landscape

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Halls Honeysuckle


Vines for Landscaping

Spring is almost here. Looking for some great looking vines to block a wall or maybe you want to block the view from your neighbor?

Here are some suggested vines that can help you achieve that look.

Halls Honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica `Halliana`)

Great looking semi-evergreen vine, perfect for the southwest, white and yellow flowers that will bloom from spring thru late fall. It tolerates poor soil and likes full sun. This is one vine that is very drought tolerant. Once established needs only occasional watering. Great fragrant smell almost all summer long. Fast-growing twining stems can up to 15' long or more can also be used as ground cover up to 2 feet tall.


Yellow Trumpet Creeper

Yellow Trumpet Creeper

Yellow Trumpet Creeper (Campsis radicans 'Flava')

The Yellow Trumpet Creeper, very fast growing clinging vine produces yellow trumpet shaped flowers in the summer months that attract hummingbirds. This trumpet bloom vine loves the southwestern sun it is a tough vine for hot and dry sites


Cematis

Clematis

MADAME JULIA CORREVON CLEMATIS (Clematis viticella)

This is one clematis vine that does great in the southwest or almost anywhere in the west, southwest, east and lower elevations of the North. Beautiful wine-red flowers that bloom almost all spring and summer. that will bloom from spring thru late fall. It does need regular watering. Grows to about 12' wide and long. Great for small arbor, trellis and container vine.


Star Jasmine

Star Jasmine
Star Jasmine

Star Jasmine

Star Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides)

Beautiful evergreen vine prized for its very fragrant, star-shaped white flowers. Train on posts, walls, or trellises, you can also use it as a fast-growing shrubby ground cover. Also does great in containers in colder climates. Loves to be planted under a large tree with filtered sun. Very fragrant white star shaped flowers. Full to partial sun. Vine with 18 to 20 feet twining branches 1 to 2 feet tall

Beautiful Vines

There are actually hundreds of types of vines. Above are some of the more common ones. These vines should be available at your local nursery store. Be sure to ask what your zone area is. Or check out the links below for further information regarding your zone area.

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moonlake  says:
15 months ago

Love vines have them all over my yard. Have one hub showing one of my vines. That was a mystery until just lately.

Enjoyed your hub.

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