Climbing vines in bloom cover the wall, and your home instantly turns into a fairy tale
Source: Huaye Ziran
The delicate flowers on the vines carry a naturally soft power, drawing you into an oxygen-rich space filled with floral fragrance and a fairy-tale atmosphere. Where climbing plants spread out in large sheets, even the hot summer feels especially cool. Today let's look at these flowers and blossoms hanging on the vines, and how they can completely take over your courtyard wall, balcony, windowsill and your heart.
Climbing Rose
Appearance: ★★★★★
Ease of growing: ★★
Flowering period: All four seasons
The climbing rose is a huge group, loved by gardening enthusiasts for its strong growth, strong climbing ability and brilliant flower colors. Roses have a very long flowering period, most blooming from spring all the way to autumn, and some varieties such as Sweet Dream can even bloom in all four seasons.
Because of its tenacious vitality, it can grow lush branches and leaves, making it more suitable for planting in a courtyard. A single plant can also be grown on an unenclosed balcony, but be careful to prune it.
Flowering conditions
On one hand, it needs ventilation, and at least half a day of sunlight every day.
Prune often, once a year after December when the leaves fall. After May, cut back 1/2 of the flowering branches that have already bloomed.
Fertilize frequently and in a timely manner. When roses are dormant in January-February, mix in 1/4 rice bran ash, broad bean shells, bean cake or chicken manure as a base fertilizer. In May, when they enter the peak growing season, apply a top dressing once every 10 days, using decomposed and fermented fish juice or vegetable leaf juice, applied with water in a 3:7 ratio, and stop fertilizing in November.
Sweet Dream
Rose Eden
Spectrum
Margaret
Clematis
Appearance: ★★★★★
Ease of growing: ★★★
Flowering period: Spring, autumn
If you ask what pairs best with climbing roses, the answer is definitely clematis. One is charming yet not without sharpness, the other is sturdy yet not without allure; their vines twine together, truly bringing out the best in each other.
Flowering conditions
Be sure to ensure the root system has air and drainage. For the potting soil, mix in coarser peat and perlite at 6:1, and choose a porous or thin-walled ceramic pot.
Clematis is not too fussy about watering; just water when the pot is dry.
If you want clematis that blooms all over, fertilizing is certainly necessary. In winter especially, fertilizing requires adding new peat mixed with organic fertilizer and bone meal to the soil to help the root system grow. In spring and autumn, when temperatures are higher, you can water the soil with liquid fertilizer or spray it on the leaves, just 2-3 times a month. In summer, stop fertilizing.
Florida Sieboldii
Josephine
Vyvyan Pennell
Cassis
Andromeda
Cypress Vine
Appearance: ★★★★
Ease of growing: ★★★★★
Flowering period: July-September
By comparison, the annual cypress vine is small and delicate, with vines that twine and wind, making it very suitable for growing on a balcony or windowsill. The cypress vine looks fragile but is very tenacious, and after planting it once, even if you forget to sow seeds, the seeds left behind will sprout from the flower pot by themselves the next year.
Flowering conditions
The cypress vine is not demanding about soil; ordinary garden soil is enough. Cover with a thin layer of soil, water and wait. Spring and autumn are the sowing periods.
No watering or fertilizing is needed during the seedling stage.
When it starts climbing, build it a small frame with twigs, and pinch off the top of the main vine so it can grow more branches.
Apply ordinary organic fertilizer for an even better flowering effect.
After the flowers fade, wait until the seeds turn brown, then pick them and keep them for sowing next year.
Cypress vine with feathery leaves
Cypress vine with round leaves
Cypress vine with maple-like leaves
Chinese Trumpet Vine
Appearance: ★★★
Ease of growing: ★★★★
Flowering period: May-August
The Chinese trumpet vine is one of the most famous garden flowers. With thin bamboo supports it can be trained into various patterns, and it is suitable for planting in courtyards, balconies or windowsills. The Chinese trumpet vine can also be used as medicine, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and clearing heat and reducing swelling.
Flowering conditions
The Chinese trumpet vine is not demanding about soil; both sandy loam and clay loam can support its growth.
During the flowering period, the soil should not be too dry or too wet.
The Chinese trumpet vine likes warmth, and should be kept indoors to overwinter in winter. It likes sunlight but is slightly shade-tolerant.
After sprouting in spring, apply liquid fertilizer 1-2 times a month.
To make it bloom profusely and grow lush branches, prune the branches in early spring before sprouting, so as to improve ventilation and light penetration.
Do not rashly plant these climbing flowers, or beware: before you know it, your home will turn into a fairy-tale world!
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