I have a built in planter on my porch, that is in heavy shade, far under the porch overhanging roof.
Would like a vine that can grow on a trellis. Flowers would be nice, but can live with leaves.
Plenty of moisture and good soil.
The plants doing well there are ferns and peace lily (Spathiphyllum). Any ideas?
Suggestions for a Vine in heavy shade
Passion Flower vines are easy to grow.
Passiflora edulis var. edulis, Purple Passion Fruit / Purple Grenadilla makes nice flowers and produces delicious fruit. It grows in smaller spaces than more common weedy forms of Passion Fruit, so a planter on
a porch would work.
Folks here living upcountry used to commonly plant Purple Passion Fruit on their lanai's. They called them "no ka'oi lilikoi", meaning, the best Passion Fruit!
Everything I read says that is a full sun vine. Looking for full shade. Thanks
It's generally in the nature of vines to grow up and in to full sun. There's not really many that like heavy shade. But if ferns are doing well in that spot then you could try something like Lygodium microphyllum, Climbing Maidenhair Fern. It's a native here and to much of the tropical and warm temperate parts of the world. Really looks great.