Featured Plants
Information on new, rare, or little-known plants can be difficult to find. This serial will feature plants that we feel deserve some extra consideration. Watch for the plant that may be just right for you.
Vines - The perfect plants for horticultural Control Freaks!
Ornamental vines fulfill important roles in the landscape and there are many kinds to choose from. Beautiful evergreen or deciduous foliage of many types, showy and/or fragrant flowers, and colorful or edible fruits can make them stars in any garden. Except when used as groundcovers, vines take up less ground space than most plants. They can decorate a porch, fence, wall, arbor, trellis, or free-standing post.
The vines we offer include permanent woody plants and perennials that die to the ground each winter. Some vines climb by twining, some by tendrils that wrap around small things, and some by little rootlets or "hold-fasts" which can anchor them to almost any rough surface.
Choose carefully for site, space, and desired effect. If allowed, some vines can overwhelm structures, shrubs, and even trees. Prune regularly (and ruthlessly if necessary) to confine a vine to its allotted space. Mixing vines with different foliage or texture will look unkempt. Vines which can sucker from the roots should be isolated by lawn, pavement, water features, or other physical barriers.
Please consider some of the vines featured here or others on our list.
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Common Name: Aster, Climbing
A most unusual Aster as it is a vine or very scandent shrub with woody stems which do not die back in winter. Abundant late season flowerheads are about 1" diamenter. The ray flowers are blue to purple with yellow disc flowers. It occurs in scatter...
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Common Name: Crossvine, Red
Vigorous evergreen or semi-evergreen vine climbing by tendrils or hold-fasts. Leaves may be narrower and longer than typical for the species but main feature is abundant red trumpet shaped flowers. Typical form of Crossvine has orange flowers. Good...
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Common Name: Crossvine, Tangerine Beauty
High climbing semi-evergreen vine with bright orange trumpet shaped flowers. A good flowering vine that climbs high by tendrils and hold-tights. Effective if planted on fence or trellis in sun or semi-shade. Flowers heavily in early summer and spor...
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Common Name: Trumpetcreeper, Madame Galen
High-climbing deciduous vine which will attach to rough surfaces with "hold fasts". Compound leaves and large orange/salmon trumpet shaped flowers in summer. A hybrid intermediate between the parents, the American species (Campsis radicans)and the ...
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Common Name: Ivy, Marine
Relatively hardy and vigorous deciduous relative of the Grape Ivy. Attractive, deeply lobed gray-green trifoliate leaves. Drought tolerant. Tendrils have hold fasts that cling to almost any surface that is not completely smooth. Makes a fine seasid...
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Common Name: Jessamine, Swamp
Evergreen vine closely related to Gelsemium sempervirens (Which see). This rare species is found in wet habitats. . It is floriferous and flowers both in spring and fall but the yellow trumpet shaped flowers are not fragrant. Plant in sunny locati...
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Common Name: Jasmine, Chinese
Evergreen twining vine with neat pinnate compound leaves and masses of fragrant white flowers that are pink in bud. A great vine for semi-shady location in mild climate areas or as a conservatory plant in colder regions. Flowers in spring and early...
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Common Name: Jasmine, Hybrid
Jasminum x stephanense (J. beesianum x officinale)is a rather vigorous semi-evergreen vine or scrambling shrub with small pinnate or incompletely compound leaves Flowers small, pink, fragrant. Hybridized in France but reportedly found wild in wester...
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Common Name: Kadsura Vine, Variegated
Twining evergreen vine with glossy leaves about 3" long by 1" wide. This variety (sex undetermined) has striking creamy white variegation along leaf margins. A choice vine for shady or semi-shady locations with good soil that is not too dry. Kadsu...
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Common Name: Honeysuckle, Yellow Trumpet
Semi-evergreen vine of restrained habit. Leaves blue-green with some encircling the stem. Flowers normally bright red but this selection a clear yellow. It is a compact repeat bloomer selected by the Virginia Native Plant Society. Found on the gr...
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Common Name: Honeysuckle, Trumpet 'Leo'
Semi-evergreen vine with blue-green leaves, some of which encircle the stems. Bright red tubular flowers over a long period attract hummingbirds. This is an excellent free-flowering clone of our native red honeysuckle. We have been unable to discove...
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Common Name: Trumpet Vine, Pink
Vigorous vine with compound leaves. Will likely freeze to ground in zones 8 and 9 but make much growth in warm weather with good conditions. Flowers are showy pink trumpets. Plant in sunny site with well-drained soil and allow ample space to climb....
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Common Name: Firecracker Vine
Twining but delicate perennial vine with small narrow leaves and very showy and abundant red tubular flowers over extended period in summer. Plant in sunny spot with moist but well-drained soil and a fence or trellis to climb on. A very attractive a...
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Common Name: Trumpetcreeper, Tifton Red
A Woodlanders selection of our native trumpet vine. Perhaps better adapted for the Deep South than previously available northern selections. Trumpet shaped flowers orange-red to red. May be pruned back hard in winter. Ideal for post, arbor, fence, o...
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Common Name: Passionflower, White
Vigorous evergreen vine climbing by tendrils. Leaves deeply divided with narrow lobes. Flowers showy and intricate but ephemeral. Flowers three to four inches across and white. Typical for species is blue. A beautiful vine with striking flowers b...
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Common Name: Maypop
Perennial vine with three lobed leaves and very showy intricate blue flowers about three inches across. Climbs by tendrils or sprawls on ground. Not uncommon in southern fields and woods edges. Lime-sized fruit becomes leathery and yellowish with t...
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Common Name: Passionflower, Hybrid "Incense"
Perennial tendril climbing vine with thre lobed leaves and very large and showy purple flowers over a long period in warm weather. It is a hybrid between our native Passiflora incarnata and the South American Passiflora cincinnata. It produces few ...
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Common Name: Moonflower, Big Root
Perennial vine from large tuber. This rare night-fowering morning glory from coastal southeastern US is presumed to have been introduced from Yucatan by aboriginal inhabitants in Pre-Columbian times and is sometimes found on Indian shell middens. La...
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Common Name: Ivy, Algerian
Evergreen vine similar to the common Ivy (Hedera helix) but with much larger leaves, less tendency to climb, and less cold-hardy. Makes an excellent ground cover in Deep South gardens. Plant in semi-shade....
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Common Name: Clerodendron x speciosa
Clerodendron x speciosa (thomsoniae x splendens) is a showy vine which is a hybrid between Clerodendron thomsoniae, the "Bleeding Heart Vine" and C. splendens. A showy climber much like the former except flowers without the white parts. Calyx is pu...
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