Summer is here and many blooming vines are bursting with color. Strolling through your neighborhood or on your drive to work, you can’t help but notice them. Many are evergreen, some are deciduous, and all love the summer sun to produce spectacular flowers.
The virtue of a vine is unmistakable. The beauty of foliage and flower alone makes a vine worthy of space in any garden. Yet it can also offer coverage of an ugly fence or wall, provide architectural structural beauty, act as a screen separating garden spaces or frame a garden entrance.
Flowering vines attract wildlife such as birds, bees, and butterflies. Many have fragrant flowers and wonderful, bold colors as well as interesting shapes ranging from trumpet, tubular, and star-shaped flowers to colorful bracts with many smaller flowers.
Most vines either twine, cling or arch. The structure that you choose to train your vine onto will depend upon its growth habit and the ultimate size it can grow to. Some vines have more delicate branching while others, such as wisteria, develop strong, large woody vines from which the foliage and flowers emerge. That type of vine needs an extremely sturdy structure. Most other vines are easily trained onto a trellis or arbor. And of course the “clingers” need a fence or wall to attach to.
We’re excited about the summer-blooming vines we have in stock. They are blooming in the garden center and will continue to bloom for you at home, providing beautiful color.