Vines are wonderful, are they not?
Tropaeolum majus 'Spitfire' makes a nice edible gap-filler in harmony with Canna 'Phaison' at the Western CO Botanical.
Just Pictures.
Passifloras are not common here, this is one of a few I know of in town, around a sad old unkempt house. Can I have confirmation that this is 'Incense?'
I am not impressed by Tropaeolum 'Jewel of Africa' mixture. Still a pretty sight.
A "young" silver lace vine (yes, it gets trimmed regularly) with the company of Ipomoea 'Heavenly Blue' and 'Milky Way.' These climb about 20 feet up an east aspect so that I may see them from the bedroom window in the morning.
Miniature Clematis 'Piilu' covers the bare feet of such rampant monsters as Akebia.
When I fail to germinate things inside, I chuck them out. Then things like this happen. This looks like Pas. edulis coming up in my flowering tobacco patch. I will transplant them inside.
A Wisteria (floribunda?) on a church in town this spring.
Some mixed vines recently on the fence.
Clematis 'Evisix.' I bought it for the dark veins. That's all.
Clematis 'Freckles' is growing well. Blooms on old wood. It is an experiment for overwintering.
'Kermesina'
To finish the Clematis, a 'Jackmanii' at a friends house. With a quaint visitor.
The mottled leaves of a growing Aristolochia gigantea seedling.
My silver lace early in the year...
If you are still reading this, take a break and have a cookie with a cup of tea. And a walk.
Ipomoea imperialis of sorts. Vibrant to be sure.
The veg garden I stopped tending. Not a bean to be seen...
A sure sign that the gardener has not been gardening recently. his favorute shovel entwined by Aristolochia trilobata.
Aren't you patient?
Vines make better backdrops for the border.
A variegated sport I keep trying to separate from the regular ipomoea 'Star of Yalta'
This thing is too much where it is. So are all of its spawn, running out underground. I will transplant it to a giant mushroom trellis at the botanical gardens this winter.
Passiflora incarnata. The monster incarnate.
Here is one of those fancy rebar custom fabrication vine supports. Don't you wish you had a couple dozen of these? Western CO botcanical. A Wisteria floribunda cultivar. One day I'll get a closeup and ID which cultivar.
Ipomoea 'Cameo Elegance' has the best variegation. A miniature morning glory, fancy that. Reseeds true to boot.
The climbing yellow bleeding heart. Dicentra scandens. Not enough light and needs to be moved. Neat leaves.
This is getting long, eh?
Popular Ipomoea batatas cultivars 'Black Heart' and 'marguerite' contrast nicely.
Lonicera periclymenum 'Harlequin' has nice distorting variegation.
Any house is a bare canvas.
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Clematis armandii, first year, soon to need a stogner trellis
You are one attentive reader. Or you have high-speed internet.
Whatever the case, I invite anybody and everybody to post pictures of their favorite vertically-opportunistic plants or their flowers.
A Toast to Vines, all.
Kenton J.
Finale, a friends's Clem. 'Jackmanii': July 11, 2006
A Toast to Vines!! Beautiful pics. Since I don't know the common names of some you've posted, what is Lonicera periclymenum 'Harlequin'? Honeysuckle????
Debbie
Don't lie, you DO know that latin name, good job. Shoot, sorry about that. I'm sort of an anti-common name nazi. PlantFiles is a great way to learn the latin of plants. It comes in handy when nurseries try to sell you the wrong plant.
High speed :-) Thanks for the show!
The pipevine....the mature plant doesn't seem to have mottling on the leaves, does that go awyay
I wonder what this one is ?
OMG
Wonderful pictures Kenton, thanks for sharing. :~)
Phicks, looks like abelmoschus.
Kenton: Beautiful, diverse, familiar, hard-to-find, unique, lovely, but definitely NOT 'just pictures'! However, you have kept us well versed and entertained.
phicks: I agree that it looks like abelmoschus. http://www.malvaceae.info/Genera/Abelmoschus/gallery.html
Thanks all, lets see more of Your photos! (Thanks Phil, right?)
I know you have some.
Reno, I think that it is an individual thing. A sort of blue-eyes brown-eyes type trait. A minority of seedlings are unmottled. I think KayJones has a mature Aristolochia gigantea with mottling?
K
Thanks K, that's weird, on the evolutionary scale of things, would you say the mottling is on the way in or out?
If you really want my opinion, it is going back and forth and not advancing anywhere.
Some plants have mottling designed to look like damage or eggs from insects, so that other insects think there is no vacancy.
Come now, no one has any pictures? Must I beg?
Kenton
Give me a break Kenton! I live in AZ, things shut down here in the summer :-( And besides that, I've been battling every bug known to man this year. Almost lost my aristolochia watsonii and fimbriata, but they're coming back now, dagnabit spider mites. My passies are eaten to death right now by cats. A lot of vines are starting to come on strong now that's it cooler at night and starting to get cooler in the day, but not blooming.
I went through plantfile pics and saw some of the pipevines with the mottling/ spots, not terribly impressive, huh?
Lynn
I feel for you Lynn- you get a nice autumn and winter though, right? I like to go away when it is above 100 degrees myself.
I had serious mite problems part of this summer, and white-spray-painted pots helped some of them tremendously.
The mottling isn't supposed to be impressive- I am beginning to learn that there is somethign to be said for subtlety.
That's why I have dogs,
Kenton