Pink Flowering Vines
Mar 02, 2007 09:52 AM
Pink Flowering Vines

The group of pink flowering vines is very diverse since some are used in the landscape as shrubs and broadleaf evergreens too. Some of the ornamental vines even set fruit and berries, which often attracts birds to the home garden. One of the best ways to enjoy pink flowering vines is to plant several different types. This way you can enjoy the vigorous abundance of Honeysuckle thoughout spring, and flow into summer vining color with Clematis and Vining Hydrangeas. 

The vines can be grown on trellises, fences and pergolas, around patios and decks, under trees, and directly on walls. Most of these orange flowering vines grow well with average soil moisture and partial shade, though some can take full shade or full sun giving the home gardener more options for use in the landscape.

Some of the pink flowering vines are native which frequently helps the plants be more insect resistant, salt tolerant and have natural disease resistance.  A very handsome climbing vine that isn't well known is Everblooming Honeysuckle. Included here with other native plants because this pink blooming hybrid is thought to have native vines as parents. The blossoms are rich, carmine red that changes to pink, early spring and then sporadically through fall. 

Two less well-known non-native vines that deserve mention for their pink flowers are cultivars of the Armand Clematis and Japanese Climbing Hydrangea. Clematis armandii 'Apple Blossom' has white shaded pink petals. 'Apple Blossom' is pretty with its bronze-green foliage when the month long spring bloom time is over. Also known as Japanese Hydrangea-vine, the pink-blooming Schizophragma hydrangeoides 'Roseum' is not technically a Hydrangea but can be grown with the more well known Climbing Hydrangea to extend the bloom time well into summer in June or even early July.

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