Baltic Ivy - Hedera helix baltica

Baltic Ivy does very well in sunny or shady areas. It can be used as a ground cover, on steep banks, or as a vine to climb or cling to stone or brick walls. It is extremely winter-hardy and is a common type of Evergreen English Ivy. Does well in window boxes. If planting as a ground cover, plant 8 to 12 inches apart.

Hardiness Zone: 4-9

Bittersweet - Celastrus scandens

American bittersweet is a deciduous, perennial vine. Bittersweet is easy to grow, with showy color of yellow seedpods and orange berries in the fall. Many people like to use Bittersweet as a decoration in a vase, wreath or in floral arranging. This vine adds beauty to your garden all year long. It will grow over fences, on a trellis, or climb on trees. These vines have small greenish-white flowers in June and in early fall, then once the orange/yellow seed pods peel away they reveal a scarlet red colored fruit. Bittersweet fruit is not safe for human consumption, but when left on the vine they provide food for birds and other small animals for the winter. Bittersweet will grow in full sun or shade.

Hardiness Zone: 3-8

Black Eyed Susan Vine - Thunbergia alata

Black Eyed Susan Vine is an annual vine that comes in a white, yellow, orange, rose, and mixed, but we generally carry the orange and yellow flower varieties with the solid black eyes and green leaves. It is easy to grow and prefers full sun, but will tolerate some shade. They like rich, moist, well drained soil. You can plant them to grow on a trellis, up a fence, put them in a hanging basket, in a window box, or use a groundcover. Flowers are 1 to 2 inches wide and blooms early summer to late summer.

Boston Ivy - Parthenocissus tricuspidata

Boston Ivy can climb up to 40-60 feet and spread up to 30-50 feet, depending on the type. This deciduous vine has adhesive- like tips that cling and climb and therefore, no need to support. Boston Ivy can be planted in sun, part sun or shade and is salt tolerant. This vine has green maple shaped leaves that turn bright red in the fall. This fast growing vine attaches itself to walls, fences, grows up trees, and crawls along the ground. It bears a purple fruit that attracts birds and bees, but is quite poisonous to people and pets.

Hardiness Zone: 3-9

Clematis - Clementus

Who doesn’t love a clematis vine? They have a strikingly beautiful flowers and come in a variety of colors to choose from. They can be trained to climb on fences, trellises, walls, arbors, and pergola’s. Hardy for our area, this trailing perennial will enhance any garden. Easy to grow and can be planted in full sun or part sun. Blooms in May-June & September. A garden must have to enrich any landscape.

Hardiness Zone: 3-6

Climbing Hydrangea - Hydrangea petiolaris

Climbing hydrangea has glossy heart-shaped leaves with lacy, creamy-white blooms that are 6-10 in. in diameter. It blooms in late June or early July and is very attractive. A Climbing hydrangea can get 50 to 80 feet high. They will climb on trees, brick walls, stone pillars, or cascade over a rock pile. Can be planted in spring or fall. Not an aggressive grower, but easy to grow. Plant in full sun or partial shade.

Hardiness Zone: 4-7

Dutchman's Pipe - Aristolochia machrophylla

This vine grows quickly and is easy to grow. Plant in full sun or part shade. It should be cut back in late winter to control growth. It will get 15 to 30 feet and spread 4 to 10 feet. Prefers rich, moist soil. It is called Dutchman’s Pipe for the unusual flowers which are 2” long that look like Dutch smoking pipes. You need to look behind the dense foliage, which usually hides them. This is a deciduous woody vine, that is an old time favorite. It has heart-shaped, glossy green leaves that are 6-12” long. This vine is great for pillars, posts, trellises, arbors, fences, walls, and pergola. Blooms in the summer. Attracts butterflies.

Hardiness Zone: 4-8

Honeysuckle - Lonicera

Honeysuckle is easy to grow and a garden must have. The trumpet shaped flowers are fragrant and will attract birds, hummingbirds and butterflies. The fruit it produces provides food for birds and small mammals during the fall. The most common uses for honeysuckle is growing them along fences, on a trellis, on an arbor, as a ground cover or in beds or borders. The flowers come in a variety of different colors , the most popular being orange. Prefers being planted in the sun, and can climb up to 25 feet. Blooms in the summer and fall depending on variety.

Hardiness Zone: 4-9

Kiwi Vine - Actinidia arguta

This vine has pretty leaves that look like they’ve been dipped in paint. This vine has green with pink and white splashed leaves. They have fragrant, white, early summer flowers. It prefers to be planted in full sun and likes fertile, well drained soil. Flowers in June and is an average to fast growing vine. It should begin bearing fruit in the second or third season, and the fruit is fuzzless. Needs a pollinator, unless the variety is Issai Hardy Kiwi which is a self-pollinator.

Hardiness Zone: 4-9

Silver Lace Vine - Polygonum aubertii

Blooms midsummer and likes to be planted in full sun to partial shade. Will grow up to 12 feet in the first year. It has white, lacy flowers that cover the vine from midsummer to frost. Fast growing it reaches20 to 30 feet and will spread 3 to 5 feet. It is great for porches, breezeways, fences, trellises, arbors, walls, anything you want to cover up fast! Drought tolerant.

Hardiness Zone: 4-8

Virginia Creeper - Partenocissus quinquefolia

Another old time favorite, covers fences, trellises, brick and stone homes and old barns, and is usually seen in the country covering old fieldstone walls. Likes to be planted in the sun, or part shade. This will reach 50 feet high and spread 18” wide, but maybe get 10 feet in a growing season. It has green glossy foliage that turns a brilliant scarlet color in the fall. Tolerates almost any type of soil condition.

Hardiness Zone: 3-10