Re: A sucession of blooming vines

Robin, there are *lots* of gorgeous vines to choose from, but the one I
encourage you to try is the annual hyacinth bean - smashing lavender
flowers, purply/green foliage, deep purple bean pods, and late blooming
- might look great with some red & blue morning glories.  Earlier in the
season (June), the traditional pink rose and blue/lavender clematis are
so pretty, or you could do yellow rose/deep purple clematis.  Depending
on how *huge* your trellis is, you could have some spectactular
combinations.  The white moonflower (night blooming morning glory,
fragrant) is also pretty special. The pale pink "New Dawn" rose is
traditional, or its cousin, "Aloha," a deeper salmon.  I have an
"Evangeline" rambler, blooms only once but is literally covered (right
now) with clusters of hundreds of clear pink baby blooms, grows to 20
feet, easy (needs annual pruning - it's pretty vigorous). It gets only
east sun and does great.  You could grow clematis through it for later
blooming interest.  Morning glories might be too smothering for growing
right on top of a rose.  

Anne - Chicago

> Robin Teets wrote:
> 
> 
> My husband and I made a very large trellis on the back of our garage
> and I would like to put several flowering vines on it - so that it
> would
> have blooms for the maximum amount of time.  It is big enough to
> support a number of vines and faces east so it has full sun till
> around
> noon (I have quite successfully grown morning glories on it).  I am
> in zone 6.  The colors of my garden are primarily purple, peach
> (salmon)
> and white, with some true blue thrown in.  Just thought I'd throw out
> this
> idea and see what suggestions you all might have as to what to plant
> for a
> succession of bloom.  What are your favorite vines and when do they
> bloom??? What combinations work well together???
> 
> Thanks so much,
> Robin

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