Planting Garden Vines

Vines can be useful as a screen or accent in the garden.  There are many choices of vines including evergreen and flowering vines.  Tipton County Extension Agent Joellen Dimond talks about planting vines.  She chose some vines that will bloom as much as possible during the summer: a native red trumpet honeysuckle and a purple flowering clematis. These flowers will attract bees and butterflies that will help pollinate the garden. 

Vines need to be treated like other perennials. The place where we want to grow the vines tends to stay wet after rain so Joellen plants the vines slightly higher than the soil surface. The planting hole should be the same depth as the soil in the pot but twice as wide. Joellen mixes some potting soil with the native soil to add some pore space to the existing soil. She then plants the vine. She fertilizes with a slow release fertilizer and mulches with one inch of hardwood mulch. The vine will need to be trained to grow toward the fence by sticking its branches through the holes on the fence.

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Vines
Selecting Landscape Plants: Ornamental Vines
Lonicera sempervirens Trumpet Honeysuckle
Clematis