Clematis 'Jackmanii.' (C) PerennialResource.com
I spoke to the Shamrock Garden Club about climbers and trailers. The group met at Sullivan Hardware and Garden. Here’s a list of the plants we discussed.
Annual/tropical vines
- Bougainvillea (Bougainvillea)
- Morning glories (Ipomoea)
- Sweet potato vine (Ipomoea batatas)
- Cardinal climber (Ipomoea sloteri)
- Cypress vine (Ipomoea quamoclit)
- Hyacinth bean vine (Lablab purpureus)
Hyacinth bean vine. (C) Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp
- Mandevilla (Mandevilla)
- Spanish flag/firecracker vine (Mina lobata)
- Petunia hybrida
- Trailing phlox (Phlox hybrida)
- Fan flower (Scaveola)
- Climbing black-eyes Susan vine (Thunbergia alata)
- Star jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides)
Trailing clematis (Clematis integrifolia). (C) Photo courtesy Missouri Botanical Garden.
Perennials/woody vines
- Dutchman’s pipe (Aristolochia macrophylla)
- Trumpet vine (Campsis radicans)
- Clematis
- Climbing hydrangea (Hydrangea anomala subsp. petiolaris)
- Honeysuckle (Lonicera x heckrottii)
- Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia)
- Kentucky wisteria (Wisteria macrostachya)
- Chinese wisteria (Wisteria sinensis)
- Japanese wisteria (Wisteria floribunda)
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Sullivan Hardware & Garden, 6955 N. Keystone Ave., (317) 255-9230