5 beautiful climbing flowering vines to cover your balcony in blooms within a year

If you have a courtyard wall or a balcony, then plant a few pots of climbing plants, and within a year you can find yourself in a sea of flowers. What's more, climbing plants are quite tenacious, and with hardly any care they will fill the yard with blooms, producing an abundance of flowers, and can even be trained into all kinds of shapes - simply stunning.

1. Bougainvillea

Right now is the peak blooming time for bougainvillea, when you can hardly see any leaves - the whole plant is covered in flowers. Bougainvillea's flowering period can last as long as 120 days, and its optimum growing temperature is 15-30°C. It loves a warm, humid climate, grows normally above 5°C, and especially loves sunlight - the more light, the more flowers.

2. Climbing rose

Climbing roses are at their most beautiful when climbing walls. When in bloom, the clusters of flowers are especially abundant, and the fragrance can be smelled from far away. Climbing roses have a long flowering period, blooming across three seasons, and they are highly adaptable, cold-tolerant and drought-tolerant, with no strict demands on soil. They love sunshine, but avoid too much direct strong light.

3. Flame vine

Flame vine, also called firecracker vine, produces clusters of drooping flower spikes in orange-red when it blooms, just like the firecrackers set off during the New Year, hence the name. Flame vine's flowering period is also fairly long, lasting up to half a year, usually blooming from February to July. Firecracker vine is not strict about soil and should not be left with standing water in the pot. Firecracker vine is not cold-tolerant and can grow normally above 10°C.

4. Chinese trumpet creeper

Chinese trumpet creeper has funnel-shaped flowers in bright red, very showy. It is good at climbing and often scrambles over rooftops and eaves, wall corners and fences, with a flowering period from May to August. It is also very easy to grow; it likes well-drained soil, is fairly tolerant of wet conditions, and has some tolerance to saline-alkaline soil.

5. Wisteria

Wisteria, also known as zi teng luo, is a deciduous climbing, twining large woody vine that blooms in spring. Its flowers are purple or deep purple and very beautiful. The flowers can be eaten, either served cold with dressing or coated in batter and deep-fried, with a unique flavor. Wisteria is a temperate plant with strong adaptability to climate and soil, fairly cold-tolerant and shade-tolerant, and can also tolerate wet conditions and poor, thin soil - very easy to grow.