FLOWERING VINES
Get rid of the notion that vines in Florida will choke out all life. Smart Landscapers know that many well-behaved vines are available for our area. Most vines need space with age, but can be trimmed to any dimensions. Don't be surprised at the claim that they are ideal for small-space gardens; remember that the space they inhabit is mostly vertical, in a sense you are gaining growing areas for free!
Get rid of the notion that vines in Florida will choke out all life. Smart Landscapers know that many well-behaved vines are available for our area. Most vines need space with age, but can be trimmed to any dimensions. Don't be surprised at the claim that they are ideal for small-space gardens; remember that the space they inhabit is mostly vertical, in a sense you are gaining growing areas for free!
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SKY VINE
Thunbergia grandiflora
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Large blue flowers adorn this vine, one of the rare colors in Florida gardens. It blooms whenever it's warm, including mild Winter days. The large, attractive emerald heart-shaped leaves are held neatly on the vine. Performs best with their tops in the sun and their feet in the shade. If those conditions are provided, it grows pest-free.
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FLAME VINE
Pyrostegia venusta
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This is an old Floridian favorite, currently in resurgence, and it's no wonder. This vine blooms in mid to late winter, a time of the year when showy displays of flowers are rare. This beauty needs room and available treetops, because it performs best high in the sky where it becomes showier each year, for many years.
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CONFEDERATE JASMINE
Trachelospermum jasminoides
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This is the workhorse of vines in Florida. Dependable growth and reliable blooms, what more can one want? No one is unaffected by the annual sweet scent they exude, harbringing the warm weather. This can be grown in virtually any location, withstands every growing condition and still looks good. If you are handy with cutters, this vine lends itself well to shearing and shaping, some fantastic landscape masterpieces have been created with this vine and we hope more to come...
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CAROLINA JESSAMINE
Gelsemium sempervirens
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This Florida native can attain great height and spread, rambling into the tallest trees, yet remarkably its foilage is virtually invisible throughout the year. In late winter, it suddenly becomes visible, due the masses of bright yellow flowers, filling the air with a nostalgic scent reminiscent of, quite franky, freshly powdered baby bottoms. A real Winter pick-me-up, needing no care whatsoever.
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PHILODENDRONS
Philodendron sp. and hybrids
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Many Philodendrons are vining in habit, scrambling into trees. The impart an extra dimension to any woodsy or tropical garden. Forget the rumor that they harm trees they climb, this never happens, especially in our area which is cursed with sporadic droughts and frosts. We are including the ever popular houseplant Pothos in this category, developing enormous leaves high in the trees, but never becoming noxious outside of the true tropics.
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ARROWLEAF VINE
Syngonium hybrids
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This Philodendron relative makes an excellent houseplant, thriving on neglect. It is offerered in attractive color varieties and proven to be an excellent purifier of toxins found in the average household. Yet please resist all temptations to plant this gem outside under trees. Soon after this vine begins to climb any support, it loses any color other than green and the leaves themselves morph into unatttractive awkward shapes. Unlike Philodendrons, this plant has been known to rapidly overcome trees, even smothering them. Leave this pet inside.
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ARROWLEAF VINE
Syngonium hybrids
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This vine, yet another philodendron relative, will turn your trees into the Amazon Basin! There is no plant that matches the feel that this treeclinger imparts. Its architectual leaves become more massive and lush coresponding to the omount of moisture the plants recieve. It grows slowly but surely up fissured barks, each leaf an artistic tableau, but never causes any harm to it's support, unlike Synogium.
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QUEEN'S WREATH VINE
Petera volubis
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The Queen’s Wreath vine is an evergreen, native to Central America, but is surprisingly cold tolerant. This vine is amazingly well-behaved, rarely out-growing its allotted space. It can be grown in both sun and shade, is pest-free and does surprisingly well in poor soils. The airy, attraxctive sprays of flowers are long-lasting and produced in waves thoughout the warmer parts of the year, but older, well-grown plants can bloom countinuously. Our favorite vine.
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