Q: I'm hoping you can help us. We are looking for climbing vines with flowers, preferably blue or purple. Other colors are OK if we can mix. We would like something fast-growing (we already have ...

American wisteria and the closely related Kentucky wisteria ( Wisteria macrostachya) are woody vines, with a main stem like a tree trunk, and are deciduous, meaning they lose their leaves in winter.

A couple of years ago this flower ... vine (or moon flower), Ipomoea alba (Ip-oh-MEE-ah ALL-ba), a close relative to the morning glory vine. The moon vine is a vigorous growing vine with dark ...

Blue flowers can be particularly prized in summer, where their cool nature contrasts with summer heat (if we are lucky).

The evergreen foliage is a distinctive blue ... its dark green shiny foliage and dangling clusters of deep purple flowers, evergreen wisteria (Millettia reticulata) is an excellent large vine.

Can a man with so many Clematis plants possibly name just a few that a garden should not be without? Mr. Long is especially fond of H. F. Young, which produces big, pale blue flowers in late ...

“By carefully designing a perennial garden, one can choose a combination of plants ... blue indigo, aka wild blue indigo, is a large perennial, with dense clusters of deep blue-purplish flowers ...

Before giving up on finding blooms for the dark corners of your patch, there are many shade-loving plants to add to your garden. In fact, there are plenty of flowers and greenery that thrive out ...