Vine Selections for Landscaping
Vines offer a wide variety of uses in the landscape. They may be used as a groundcover or a fast growing screen on fences or walls. Often vines are displayed on a trellis or an on arbor to provide...
Category: Vines
Weeping Ficus
Weeping ficus or fig (Ficus benjamina) is popular as houseplants, in offices and interior landscaping. They have an elegant form and dense, glossy dark foliage. Slender branches arch gracefully from...
Carolina Jessamine
Carolina jessamine (Gelsemium sempervirens) is one of the most beautiful vines of the South. It covers fences and trees in open woodlands and along roadsides throughout the Southeast with its...
Climbing Fig
Climbing fig (Ficus pumila) is a woody, evergreen vine that can be used outdoors to cover a wall or fence, or as an indoor ornamental, where it is allowed to either cascade down from a hanging...
Clematis
Clematis are among the most decorative and spectacular of all the flowering vines. They are a varied group of mostly woody, deciduous vines, though Clematis armandii is evergreen and a few are...
Jasmine
Jasmine is one of the first plants that comes to mind when one thinks of sweet fragrance. A single jasmine vine can perfume an entire room or garden. Not all jasmines are fragrant though, and...
Mandevilla
Known for its showy flowers, the genus Mandevilla includes plants that were formerly called Dipladenia. There are about 100 species of this tropical American woody vine. Most species overwinter only...
Ivy
Ivy plants include English ivy (Hedera helix), Algerian ivy (Hedera canariensis), and Persian ivy (Hedera colchina). Boston ivy (Parthenocissus tricuspidata) is an unrelated climbing plant used in...