Flowering vines offer a lot of bang for your buck. Several vines display tropical colors throughout the summer and even into our fall. A few are showing their beautiful summer color now.
Bougainvillea
These evergreen summer bloomers are stunners. Their hot pink, coral, crimson or purple “flowers” are actually modified leaves called bracts. They can be a particularly showy addition to your yard. They are somewhat frost sensitive so they may need protection if we get a particularly cold winter (under 30 degrees).
Black-eyed Susan Vine
Black-eyed Susan vine and a few of its cousins bloom all summer, mostly orange or yellow in color, often with a black eye. Plant it in a sunny spot and expect to give it some frost protection.
Bower Vine
Bower Vine is an evergreen climber with large white trumpet flowers that bare a pink throat June into October. Perfect in morning sun or light shade.
Trumpet Creeper
Often blooming this month in the vine section now and also along our southern fence, Campsis radicans, or Trumpet creeper lends a tropical flair to any sunny garden. We have three colors to choose from, yellow or orange or red.
Mandevilla
Mandevilla offers a tropical feel with an infusion of brilliant color – red, pink or white. You can provide a simple trellis or other structure upon which to climb and your mandevilla will do the rest. Regular dead-heading will repay you with a continual profusion of fragrant blooms and vines from early spring into fall.
Also blooming at Alden Lane this week, our Chaste tree.
