These Indoor Vines for Room Decor Ideas will help you add a touch of green glamor indoors with the best trailing plants!
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Do you have a chain link fence you’d like to hide? Cover it with evergreen vines. Evergreen vines are not only a great way to cover an eyesore, but they can also add vertical interest to your garden and even serve as a living privacy screen. Many of them have showy flowers, some even fragrant.
Star Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides): Star Jasmine has attractive glossy green leaves year-round. In spring, it puts on a show of starry white flowers starting in early May. These flowers are sweetly fragrant too.
If that weren’t enough to convince you to grow Star Jasmine, it is also salt tolerant, so it grows well in our coastal regions, and it is not likely to be eaten by deer.
Star jasmine attaches itself to its support by twining. Guide the stems around their support several times throughout the growing season.
Light requirements: Sun to Part Shade
Size and growth rate: 20 plus feet long, grows rapidly, can be pruned to the desired size.
When to prune: Prune right after flowering since it blooms on old growth.
Zones: 8-10.
Trumpet Honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens): Our native trumpet honeysuckles have bright green leaves throughout the winter. Flowers appear in spring, as early as March, and continue flowering through May. The species has bright scarlet tubular flowers with yellow inside. Cultivar ‘John Clayton’ has solid pale-yellow flowers.
Trumpet Honeysuckle attaches itself to its support by twining. Guide the stems around their support several times throughout the growing season.
Light requirements: Sun to Part Sun, best flowers in full sun
Size and growth rate: 10 to 15 feet high and 5 feet wide
When to prune: Prune right after flowering since it blooms on old growth.
Zones: 7-9.
Armand Clematis (Clematis armandii): The
These Indoor Vines for Room Decor Ideas will help you add a touch of green glamor indoors with the best trailing plants!
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