Climbing Plants

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Pink Clematis

Climbing plants like clematis and wisteria add special color and texture to your garden structures. Planting flowering vines to envelop your arbor or trellis is a simple way to enhance your landscape.

Planting

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    Vinca minor, or lesser periwinkle, is a climbing vine that grows well in many different climates and will climb walls or over the ground. Use caution when planting vinca Read More

  • How to Grow Brazilian Jasmine

    Brazilian Jasmine, also known as Mandevilla, is a tropical climbing vine native of Brazil that yields fragrant, showy, trumpet-shaped flowers during its growing season from Read More

  • How to Choose Sweet Peas

    The sweet pea is a flowering plant native to the Mediterranean. This climbing plant grows 3 to 6 feet and twines around fences, string, trellises and many other supports Read More

  • How to Grow a Sweet Potato Vine

    Sweet potatoes, are actually related to morning glories and can sprout a quick growing vine that will trail beautifully where you train it. Grow a sweet potato vine in a Read More

  • How to Plant Climbing Plants

    Climbing plants can provide some of the most stunning aspects of your landscaping. Bare walls and fences can be quickly beautified and transformed by planting fast-growing Read More

  • How to Plant a Garden Arbor

    Climbing, flowering vines are wonderful additions to any garden by extending the beauty upward. Vines will climb on almost anything, but a garden arbor or trellis Read More

  • How to Identify Silver Lace Vine

    The Silver Lace Vine is well-loved and as graceful as its elegant name. Many enjoy the beautiful, wispy plant in their gardens, climbing on the walls of their homes or Read More

  • How to Grow a Hummingbird Vine

    A hummingbird vine is also known as a trumpet vine. It got its names from the trumpet shaped flowers that grow on it which are a favorite of the hummingbird. This plant is Read More

  • How to Plant a Grape Vine

    Grapes are a delightful addition to any garden. Cultivated properly, they can provide quality eating and drinking year-round. Before the cultivation, however, comes the Read More

  • How to Grow a Passion Vine

    There are about 400 different species of passion vine, in every imaginable color. These vines generally bloom in the spring and throughout the summer months. Depending on Read More

Tending and Pruning

  • How to Use Vines for Summer Color in the Southern Landscape

    Along with a temperate climate, the Southern part of the United States offers a longer growing season, well suited to flowering vines. Most vines are vigorous growers and Read More

  • Passion Vine Plant Care

    Passion vine plants are beautiful plants to grow in your garden or home. Learn all about passion vine plant care with gardening tips from a horticulturist in this free Read More

  • What Are Bougainvillea Vines?

    Bougainvillea vines are one of the most common types of bougainvillea plants. Learn more about the bougainvillea vine with tips from a gardener in this free plant care video. Read More

  • How to Prune a Grape Vine

    When pruning grapes or grape vines, there are a few rules to follow, beginning with a first year in which the vines should be trained up to a wire. Discover how many shoots Read More

  • How to Care for Coral Vine

    Coral vine is a rapidly growing, climbing vine that can reach 30 or 40 feet. The small flowers have a color range from nearly white to pink to sometimes a deep coral with Read More

  • How to Spot Black Vine Weevils

    Black vine weevils, Otiorhynchus sulcatus, feed on over 100 different plants, flowers, bushes and vines. The adult black vine weevils feed on plant leaves, while the larvae Read More

  • How to Identify Wisteria

    Gardeners knew about Wisteria long before it became a fictional street on a popular television series. It's a fast-growing vine with flowers in big drooping clusters, and Read More

  • How to Grow an Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine

    Outstanding foliage is the main reason to choose an ornamental sweet potato vine for your landscape. A close relative of morning glories and moonflowers, these vines are Read More

  • How to Harvest Jasmine

    There are many different types of Jasmine. But one thing is for sure: they all smell wonderful. You can plant Jasmine in your garden for a beautiful climbing vine that Read More

  • How to Grow a Purple Passion Plant

    The purple passion plant is a vining plant that grows wild in the southern United States. It has fuzzy green leaves with purple highlights on vining stems. It produces Read More

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