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 popular house plant, Grape Ivy. Attractive, deeply lobed, and somewhat fleshy gray-green trifoliate leaves. Drought tolerant. Tendrils have hold fasts that cling to almost any surface that is ...
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Common Name: Clematis, Armand
Beautiful vigorous evergreen vine with large and glossy dark gren leaves. Abundant white fragrant flowers in early spring but worth growing for foliage alone. A great arbor or trellis vine for southern gardens but not always readily available. Pla...
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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 in the coastal plain of the southeastern U.S. It is floriferous and flowers both in spring and fall but the yellow trumpet shaped flower...
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Common Name: Double Jessamine (Cultivar)
Evergreen twining vine with bright yellow fragrant flowers in spring. This species produces few variants but this selection with double flowers was probably introduced many years ago by the famous but now defunct Fruitland Nursery of Augusta, Georgi...
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Common Name: Jasmine, Chinese
This Jasmine is an 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 very mild climate areas or as a conservatory plant in colder regions. Flo...
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Common Name: Kadsura Vine, Variegated
Kadsura japonica is a twining evergreen Asian vine with handsome foliage and small fragrant white flowers in the leaf axils. Fruit, when produced, is red and in grape-like clusters. Plant in shady or semi-shady location with good rich moist soil. Th...
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Common Name: Honeysuckle, Yellow Trumpet
Our native Coral Honeysuckle is a semi-evergreen vine of restrained habit. Leaves are 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 ...
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Common Name: Honeysuckle, Trumpet 'Leo'
This semi-evergreen vine has 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 dis...
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Common Name: Wisteria, American
Twining woody deciduous vine with compound leaves and short cluster of blue flowers appearing with the leaves. A much less rampant vine than the common Asian Wisterias. This native vine was virtually unknown to American gardeners when introduced by...
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Common Name: Wisteria, Kentucky, White "Clara Mack"
Kentucky Wisteria 'Clara Mack' is a twining deciduous vine with compound leaves and hanging clusters of white flowers. This splendid white form of a normally blue-flowerd species has longer and later flower clusters than Wisteria frutescens, our oth...
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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 from Tift County, Georgia. 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...
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Common Name: Passionflower, White
Passiflora caerulea is a vigorous evergreen vine climbing by tendrils. The leaves are deeply divided with narrow lobes. The flowers showy and intricate but ephemeral. Flowers three to four inches across and blue is typical for the species. This is...
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Common Name: Maypop
The Maypop is a perennial vine with three lobed leaves and very showy intricate blue flowers about three inches across. It climbs by tendrils or sprawls on the ground. Not uncommon in fields and woods edges of the southern United States. Lime-sized ...
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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
This rare night-fowering morning glory from coastal southeastern US is a perennial vine from a large tuber. It is presumed to have been introduced from Yucatan by aboriginal inhabitants in Pre-Columbian times and is sometimes found on Indian shell m...
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Common Name: Clerodendron x speciosa
Clerodendron x speciosa (thomsoniae x splendens) is a showy vine which climbs by twining. It is a hybrid between Clerodendron thomsoniae, the "Bleeding Heart Vine" and C. splendens. This showy climber is much like the former except flowers are with...
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