Embarking on the journey of creating and caring for a garden can be both exciting and daunting
12.06.2023 - 00:57 / gardenerspath.com / Lynne Jaques
Native Vines for Your LandscapeVines are handy for trellis or lattice arbors, to trace up trees, or to decorate a mailbox.
For many, the thought of planting a native vine in their landscape or garden is preferential due to their easy maintenance.
If you are considering a native vine, then these profiles should give you a few choices to pick from.
Ampelaster carolinianus (Climbing Aster)This fragrant vine may get invasive, so take care to keep an eye on it as it grows. It will grow up to 12 feet long and needs a spacing of 4 feet across.
It prefers to grow in sun to partial shade in moist soil. Butterflies and birds love this vine.
Expect pink/purple blooms in late summer to mid fall. You may divide the root ball on this one to propagate.
Aristolochia macrophylla Lam. (Pipevine)This one grows 20-30 feet long and needs a spacing of 20-30 feet as well. It likes full sun to partial shade and will produce non-noticeable bronze flowers in late summer.
Butterflies and the Pipevine Swallow bird love this plant as it’s very fragrant. A strong and sturdy vine, this needs to be on a stout trellis.
To propagate this very fast climber, you need to divide its root ball.
Bignonia capreolata L. (Crossvine)This fast growing plant is an evergreen vine that reaches up to 15 feet in length.
It has tubular flowers; red on the outside and yellow on the inside when in the wild, orange/red/purple range when cultivated.
It will bloom from late April to May. It prefers full sun.
Read more about growing crossvine here.
Campsis radicans (L.) Seem. ex Bureau (Trumpet Creeper)Although this plant can be invasive it is great for arbors or fences.
Its trumpet-shaped flowers grow on a woody vine up to 40 feet.
It is a fast grower, especially when grown with full sun
Embarking on the journey of creating and caring for a garden can be both exciting and daunting
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Vines play a special role in the garden, covering vast amounts of space with little investment from us. Most vines are chosen for their climbing ability and used to add vertical interest to a planting or to create a living privacy wall. Some vines are grown on pergolas as a green roof, while others are planted as ground covers.
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The day I meet David Godshall, one of the founding members of the progressive landscape architecture firm known as Terremoto, I climb the concrete steps outside his home in East Los Angeles, open a worn hinged gate, and see his garden for the first time. What I find is not quite what I was expecting, yet it makes perfect sense. Rather than the composed plants and austere rigor of the poolside landscaping Terremoto designed for actor Mandy Moore, for example, Godshall’s own garden is a tangle of mostly native and low-water plants, placed in a way that seemed haphazard but that the plants seemed to love. A dirt path is surrounded by bursts of unruly pitcher sage, sprawling California buckwheat, and Ceanothus ‘Ray Hartman’, all flourishing under the canopy of a Western sycamore. Cross-sawn timber planks from fallen local trees that otherwise would’ve been pulped weave through the yard like mini-bridges for his kids to play on. Raised beds tumble down the slope. A fashionable composter (yes, there is such a thing) sits under the eaves of a house that’s been painted black. Meanwhile, in one corner, a clawfoot cast- iron bathtub sits on a humble wood-plank base. This, I find out later, is where Godshall likes to bathe.
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