What are your favourite Flowering VINES?

Keesha

Keesha

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Wisteria, roses and honeysuckle are some of my favourites but I absolutely LOVE all the different varieties of clematis available today. Here is a picture of my spring clematis.


I wish that I could grow jasmine. The bignonia is stunning as well as bougainvillea.


What are your favourite flowering vines?


Check out the awesome link below.


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treeguy64 said:
Wisteria smells great, and tastes great! I eat it on tree gigs, when I need a snack.
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Really?:shrug: I did not know this. What does it taste like? That’s very interesting.
I love the smell of it. It’s intoxicating like jasmine and honeysuckle.
 

What a beautiful Clematis! I love it! Watch out for Wisteria! There is a native variety that's good but there is a Chinese/Japanese variety that is outrageously invasive and is known to kill large trees as it wraps it's vine around it. That opens the forest to more light and so more vines grow. Landscapers groan when asked if they can get rid of it. I know this all too well :rolleyes:.

I looked over your link and yes, it's awesome! I'm so glad you started this thread because I'm getting ready to choose a flowering vine. I have a star Jasmine and 2 kinds of Ivy all over my rock garden (plain green and variegated).
 
Lara said:
What a beautiful Clematis! I love it! Watch out for Wisteria! There is a native variety that's good but there is a Chinese/Japanese variety that is outrageously invasive and is known to kill large trees as it wraps it's vine around it. That opens the forest to more light and so more vines grow. Landscapers groan when asked if they can get rid of it. I know this all too well :rolleyes:.

I looked over your link and yes, it's awesome! I'm so glad you started this thread because I'm getting ready to choose a flowering vine. I have a star Jasmine and 2 kinds of Ivy all over my rock garden (plain green and variegated).
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Thank you Lara. I’ve heard that Wisteria can be somewhat invasive. That’s good to know.
You have Star Jasmine? Oh you are so lucky. They smell heavenly. I have a few ivy plants growing everywhere. Those things really spread well.

Have fun choosing. Let me know what you get.
 
Had a bout with wisteria several years ago. That stuff will take over and is the devil to get rid of! Never again. Love morning glories!!
 
wisteria will kill your trees--i like trumpet vines but they are hard to control--honey suckle and jasmine take my breath away--i love hydrangea--and lantanna
 
rkunsaw said:
We have crown vetch covering the bank leading to the lake. We also have what I'm told is a vining variety of vinca which I really like.
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I had to look these up since I hadn’t heard of them before but I see that they are actually ground covers and not flowering vines. They are very pretty though. Apparently periwinkle is a type of vinca which we have that I quite like. It’s probably the first flowers to pop up out of the snow in spring. On second thought, they are a type of flowering vine that just don’t climb the same as others. :thumbsup:
Crown Vetch
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Terry...how did you get rid of the Wisteria?? Do tell. Pretty please? :praying:

Keesha and rkunsaw...I love the "Crown Vetch" but don't have any, boo hoo. I do have blue "Vinca" and I like it :love_heart:

Twinkles...I too love Lantana BUT watch out if you have Pets. It's highly poisonous!!
I watch my dogs constantly on leashes in my front yard where my Lantana dwells in a rock garden.

bingo...I never heard of Carolina Jasmine. Maybe that's what I have?? I live in NCarolina. I don't know but my Jasmine has a strong heavenly scent

Manatee...I agree with Honeysuckle. It's hardy, pretty, and smells divine...yes yes yes
 
Vines don't do well in cold climates because they have to withstand the cold temperatures .

Some people take them down and lay them along the ground and cover them and them bring them back up in the spring.

But even that doesn't guarantee results.

Clematis does well here if you protect it. Otherwise everything is pretty well for another zone.
 
Hey Lara? Is lantana poisonous if they eat it or just if they touch it( like poison ivy , the resin itself is poisonous )

Camper? What zone are you in ?
I’m in a 4/5 zone and I’ve had up to 26 different types of clematis .
Many different types of vines ARE hardy.
 
I would have never have guessed that the bleeding heart was considered a flowering vine.
The perfect heart shapes look almost magical themselves.
Perhaps I can be somewhat whimsical but they’ve always caught my interest.
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Keesha said:
Hey Lara? Is lantana poisonous if they eat it or just if they touch it( like poison ivy , the resin itself is poisonous )

Camper? What zone are you in ?
I’m in a 4/5 zone and I’ve had up to 26 different types of clematis .
Many different types of vines ARE hardy.
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Not sure of the zone. But I am sure of the results. L.O.L.

The problem is that when you buy a plant it's not grown in the zone you are planting it in.

A plant gets hardy by protection but it's only that one plant that gets hardened off. If you plant the seeds it doesn't work.
 
Camper6 said:
Not sure of the zone. But I am sure of the results. L.O.L.

The problem is that when you buy a plant it's not grown in the zone you are planting it in.

A plant gets hardy by protection but it's only that one plant that gets hardened off. If you plant the seeds it doesn't work.
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Well that’s precisely why knowing your zone is so important.
When I go to the garden store, or garden department, they only carry perennial plants for our area but even if they aren’t , the tag that comes with the plant will always state what zones they are good for. I choose ones for zones 3 and up so I’ll know for sure that they are hardy.

Then there are annual climbing vines that are meant to only be grown in summer. In warmer areas these would be considered perennials. If your garden centre is selling vines and flowers that are out of your zone area then that’s just bad business on their part and not too wise. I’d find another outlet if that were the case.
 
Keesha said:
Hey Lara? Is lantana poisonous if they eat it or just if they touch it( like poison ivy , the resin itself is poisonous )

Camper? What zone are you in ?
I’m in a 4/5 zone and I’ve had up to 26 different types of clematis .
Many different types of vines ARE hardy.
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Zone 3. 4/5 would be like the tropics. Must be Southern Ontario.
 
Keesha said:
Well that’s precisely why knowing your zone is so important.
When I go to the garden store, or garden department, they only carry perennial plants for our area but even if they aren’t , the tag that comes with the plant will always state what zones they are good for. I choose ones for zones 3 and up so I’ll know for sure that they are hardy.

Then there are annual climbing vines that are meant to only be grown in summer. In warmer areas these would be considered perennials. If your garden centre is selling vines and flowers that are out of your zone area then that’s just bad business on their part and not too wise. I’d find another outlet if that were the case.
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Here beddng out plants and mainly annuals are the ticket.l Why not too wise. Lots of repeat business. Roses are treated like annuals. Climbing roses.? Forget it. Same with flowering vines.
 
Camper6 said:
Here beddng out plants and mainly annuals are the ticket.l Why not too wise. Lots of repeat business. Roses are treated like annuals. Climbing roses.? Forget it. Same with flowering vines.
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:laugh: Sorry. I wasn’t suggesting you aren’t wise I just thought that perhaps the garden centre you shop at didn’t carry clematis or climbing vines for your area, which wouldn’t be too wise.
Our centre has many zone 3 choices. There are definitely some climbing roses suitable for zone 3.
I wish I had some climbing roses. They really are lovely and smell amazing.
 
Camper6 said:
I have never seen a cardinal.
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What? Are you serious? We get lots of them here and I see the male cardinals all the time. Probably due to their bright red colour but I also see some females. We have a couple of pairs that have been in our area for several years now. They apparently mate for life.

We get a large variety too. Blue jays, woodpeckers, nut hatches, tit mouses, chickadees, Baltimore oriels, red breasted grossbeaks, evening grossbeaks, swallows, mourning doves, sparrows, robins, gold finches, purple finches, purple martins, flycatchers, humming birds.

Here’s a woodcarving of a cardinal just for you Camper.

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