Cissus sicyoides is awesome if you get it to send down the runners.If you cut them they turn red on the new growth.

This is one of my favorite vines Petrea volubilis (Queens wreath} This one was intended to become a free standing tree form but won't stand alone . Note the piece of the old pvc trellis that it is still clinging . Flowers heavily at least twice a year requires very little pruning,no bugs, temp tolerant

I find the purple far more vigorous than the white form there is also a bicolored form being violet backed by magenta

Vines are my favorite growth habit though I run out of room years ago!!

gary

I want some flowering Vines, but I am scared of them. Sometimes I don't make it into the garden as often as I should, I am fearful of getting something that will take over!

I loved all three above and the best part is they are names I don't see coming up in very article I read about "best Vines", so now I have new names to check out. I really want to get a vine this year!

Another good one is Cape honeysuckle.Very easy to grow.The bright orange flowers draw hummingbirds.At night in the summer months it gives off sweet scents.

Here is another, Carolina jasmine ,winter flower ,doesn't twine too much , runners stay small but do tend to root at nodes Very easy to prune .

After a cool front will produce so many flowers you can't see the vine lol

The above is one vine covering the aviary is pruned back in the spring all that is necessary.

There are dozens of kinds of vines but many are way too aggresive but if you have the room Once had a Malay rubber vine entwined with a magenta bogainvillea was absolutely spectacular about 9/10 months of the year . The bougie of course had spines while the MRV exuded a very sticky sap when cut

They grew over the top of a shadehouse but was torn down by hurricane so I removed them. Am now concentrating on smaller tropicals but grown on trees such as Hoya ,Philo gloriosum terete vanda orchids and bignonia vine .

A recent addition was "lady fingers " which grows as an epiphyte. Produces red lily like flowers but isn't liking the heat lol

If you are really brave try the "Jade" vines either the red or blue Got to be among the worlds most spectacular but VERY cold senstive

Research the choices that interest you or follow my plan plant one when it eats the house dig it up and plant another kind ?? Good luck gary

My fave is Coral Honeysuckle (I don't have a photo) because it attracts hummingbirds, it's a native, you can keep it in bounds and it's green all year. The only drawback is it doesn't flower in the Winter unless it's unusually warm.

I love my passionvines because they keep my yard aflutter with Gulf Fritillaries. I have three varieties, the purple maypop, which is native, blue passionvine, which is more white than blue and I picked up a hardy fruiting one this past summer in hopes that growing on a south-facing wall is enough allow it to survive a couple of frosts and bear fruit come summer.

They can be a bit of a headache with runners, but I have observed two things in regards to this. First is that the worst suckering happens when I cut back my vines, if I leave them alone, they are more likely to put their energy into current growth rather than starting new vines. Second is that if I pull up the runners, I will have another one popping up in about the same area soon after, but if I leave the smaller ones alone, the caterpillars will eat them down and they are less likely to jump back out. So I only pull the runners that are getting more than three feet in length and leave the rest to be eaten down.

Oh my gosh I have so many vines its not funny. I'm always changing my mind about who is my favorite lol.

Aristolochia "Brasiliensis' aka Dutchman's Pipe Vine. I don't know...she looks kinda "naughty" :D Just for reference, the pink brugmansia flowers next to it are 21 inches long.

Double Rangoon Creeper aka drunk sailor vine. The smell of these flowers are heavenly. I usually smell it way before I see it when this thing is blooming. It roots easily and survives, as in root hardy in zone 9a. The first few yrs I had it, I stuck the pots in the gh for winter then in the spring new plants would sprout up from the roots that were left in the ground from where the pots were during the summer. So I know I can pretty much leave them out in the ground and they will come back <3 Love this vine! <3

I will post some more vine pics later when I get a chance.

~SJN

I went a little crazy with vines. The blue clock vine, beautiful blue flowers, took over an arbor but it died back with frost and got ugly, so I dug it out and threw it on the empty lot next to us where it is happily climbing over several small trees. I'll have to cut it down and let it start over in the spring.

I also planted coral honeysuckle. It has gotten quite thick. I see an occasional hummingbird on it in the early spring when they are beginning their trip north.

I also planted Carolina jasmine, which has started climbing over the roof. I should cut it down and let it start over, but it's a mess.

I like confederate jasmine for its fragrance.

I have Cape honeysuckle but it never seems to have many flowers on it when we're here (snowbirds). It is in an out-of-the-way spot so I don't pay much attention to it.

Also have the purple bleeding heart vine. It is growing through a few trees but it isn't as overwhelming to the trees as the clock vine.

If I had to do it again, knowing what I know now, I would only plant the coral honeysuckle and the confederate jasmine :)

O.K., I'm sorry to be nitpicky or mean, but this is a pet peeve of mine. I'm from South Carolina, and it's yellow JESSAMINE (Gelsemium sempervirens), not jasmine. It's our state flower. It's not a jasmine at all, although it smells lovely.

I love vines, but I don't have room for them here in my new place, so I'll just say what my favorites were in SW FL. I had a gorgeous coral honeysuckle that I loved, and also a beautiful white bleeding heart. Aristolochia gigantea ate my hibiscus tree before I could stop it, and black eyed susan vine almost killed my elderberry. Cape honeysuckle took over my back yard sending out runners under the ground that came up everywhere. I love gloriosa lilies -- not really a vine, but a climber.

I love all the ideas and tips!

This is my favorite vine. But Tampa is hot. It's gone last year. :( :(:(

Is that a clematis? I was so happy to hear that clematis does well up here. The wild Sweet Autumn grows all over, and I'm determined to plant some somewhere this year.

yes. it's clematis. you have to put it at shade spot. summer is tough for them.

Passiflora Belotii and Victoria (left bottom)

Passiflora Ruby Glow

P. Lavender Lady -The hummingbirds seem to always go straight for this one for some reason.

P/ Vitifolia

P. Caerulea

I have photos of P. Sunburst and P. Nigradenia somewhere...hmm maybe on my old computer.

still have not decided what vine/vines I want to get, but I am getting so excited that spring is coming and soon I'll be picking out something!

SJN: Your passion vines are lovely but with so many, I would think your yard is an underground web of their roots. Do you have shoots popping up all over your garden? I ask because my neighbor has a single passion vine which hosts umteen gulf frit caterpillars (a good thing) but I find its shoots coming up in my garden. - June

Hi june, I am on about 4 acres and there are woods on most sides of the property and only one neighbor on one side that I can see and its fenced there lol. So escapee passiflora and other vines aren't a problem. In fact, there are "wild /rogue" trumpet vines, japanese honeysuckle, and carolina jessamine growing all crazy out in the woods and up various trees on the back of the property.

I have a lot of gulf frits so they do keep the escaped (from pots) passies under control here too.

For additional control, I grow most of my passiflora in pots and use 3 tall bamboo poles tied together at the top in the large pots. Then I use fishing line and black electrical tape to create a little trellis for them to attach their tendrils onto between the bamboo poles. Then I position the pots up against a fence or tree and let them climb that way once they grow over the bamboo poles. When it freezes, I cut them back to the length of the bamboo pole/trellis and move the pots into the gh because some of the passies I grow will freeze back badly and some are tropical so gh culture during the winter is best for those.

~SJN