Vines
Vines play a valuable role in the garden. These gorgeous, climbing plants create vertical interest as they wrap themselves around elegant arbors, gazebos and trellises and reach for the sun.
They can help soften architecture or hide unsightly areas. They can serve as a green backdrop for colorful flowers. Or they can be the focal point.
Take clematis. With its large, showy flowers, this popular plant is an attention grabber in the garden. Another favorite is trumpet vine, which is native to our area, easy to grow and attracts hummingbirds to its orange or red tubular flowers.
At Merrifield Garden Center, we stock nearly 100 varieties of vines, including over 50 cultivars of clematis. Vines bloom in late spring or summer. They prefer full sun and fertile, well-drained soil.
Bougainvillea is prized for its vivid, paper-thin flowers that lend an exotic, tropical look and feel to the garden. Passion flower vine conveys romance. Bougainvillea and passion flower are tropicals that need to be brought indoors before the first frost. Heavily blossomed and fragrant, hardy wisteria is perfect to create a green ceiling over a trellis.
And if there are no architectural elements in your garden, vines, such as clematis and ivy, can be used as ground cover.
Listed below are some of the more popular varieties that we typically stock during the season. However, due to various reasons, we may not have every variety listed at all times. To make sure that we have the exact variety you are looking for, please call us.
- Actinidia arguta - Hardy Kiwi
- Actinidia kolomitka Arctic Beauty - Variegated Kiwi Vine
- Akebia quinata - Chocolate Vine
- Ampelopsis brevipendiculata Elegans - Porcelain Berry
- Aristolochia durio - Dutchman's Pipe
- Bignonia capreolata Dragon Lady - Cross Vine
- Bignonia capreolata 'Tangerine Beauty'
- Campsis radicans - Trumpet Vine
- Campsis radicans Flamenco
- Campsis radicans Flava
- Campsis radicans Indian Summer
- Campsis radicans Madame Galen
- Campsis radicans Morning Calm
- Celastrus scandens - American Bittersweet
- Clematis Alabast - Clematis
- Clematis Angelique
- Clematis Anna Louise
- Clematis Arabella
- Clematis armandii - Evergreen Clematis
- Clematis armandii 'Snowdrift' - Evergreen Clematis
- Clematis Artic Queen
- Clematis Asao
- Clematis Avant-garde
- Clematis Barbara Harrington
- Clematis Barbara Jackman
- Clematis Bees Jubilee
- Clematis Belle of Woking
- Clematis Blue Angel
- Clematis Blue Mist
- Clematis Blue Ravine
- Clematis Bonanza
- Clematis Bourbon
- Clematis Cardinal Wyszynski
- Clematis Carnaby
- Clematis Carnival
- Clematis Cassis
- Clematis Cezanne
- Clematis Chantilly
- Clematis Charissima
- Clematis Chevalier
- Clematis Claire de lune
- Clematis Climador
- Clematis Comtesse De Bouchard
- Clematis Corona
- Clematis Crystal Fountain
- Clematis Diana's Delight
- Clematis Dr. Ruppel
- Clematis Duchess of Edinburgh
- Clematis durandii
- Clematis Edo Murasaki
- Clematis Elsa Spath
- Clematis Empress
- Clematis Ernest Markham
- Clematis Fireworks
- Clematis Fleuri
- Clematis florida sieboldii
- Clematis Franziska Maria
- Clematis Galore
- Clematis General Sikorski
- Clematis Gillian Blades
- Clematis Gypsy Queen
- Clematis H.F. Young
- Clematis Hagley Hybrid
- Clematis Henryi
- Clematis heracleifolia Mrs. Robert Brydon
- Clematis Huldine
- Clematis Hyde Hall
- Clematis Ice Blue
- Clematis Jackmanii
- Clematis Jackmanii Superba
- Clematis John Paul II
- Clematis John Warren
- Clematis Josephine
- Clematis Jubilation
- Clematis Kilian Donahue
- Clematis Kingfisher
- Clematis Lady Betty Balfour
- Clematis lanuginosa Candida
- Clematis Liberation
- Clematis Lincoln Star
- Clematis Marie Boisselot
- Clematis Miss Bateman
- Clematis Mme. Edouard Andre
- Clematis montana Elizabeth
- Clematis montana Grandiflora
- Clematis montana Rubens
- Clematis Mrs. Chomondeley
- Clematis Mrs. N. Thompson
- Clematis Mrs. P.B. Traux
- Clematis Multi-blue
- Clematis Nelly Moser
- Clematis Niobe
- Clematis Ooh La La
- Clematis paniculata (maximonowicziana) - Sweet Autumn Clematis
- Clematis Parisienne
- Clematis Peppermint
- Clematis Perle d' Azure
- Clematis Petit Faucon
- Clematis Peveril Pearl
- Clematis Picardy
- Clematis Piilu
- Clematis Pink Champagne
- Clematis Pink Fantasy
- Clematis Pistachio
- Clematis Polish Spirit
- Clematis Prince Phillip
- Clematis Proteus
- Clematis purpurea
- Clematis Ramona
- Clematis Rebecca
- Clematis Rhapsody
- Clematis Richard Pennell
- Clematis Riviera
- Clematis Rosemoor
- Clematis Rouge Cardinal
- Clematis Royal Velvet
- Clematis Serenata
- Clematis Silver Moon
- Clematis Snow Queen
- Clematis Sprinkles
- Clematis Sunset
- Clematis tangutica
- Clematis The President
- Clematis Tie Dye
- Clematis Victor Hugo
- Clematis Viennetta
- Clematis Ville De Lyon
- Clematis Vino
- Clematis Violet Elizabeth
- Clematis Violet Stargazer
- Clematis viticella Etiole Violette
- Clematis viticella Mme. Julia Correvon
- Clematis viticella The President
- Clematis Vyvyan Pennell
- Clematis Warsaw Nike
- Clematis Will Goodwin
- Clitoria ternatea - Blue Butterfly Pea Vine
- Dolichos lablab - Hyacinth Bean Vine
- Gelsemium rankinii - Carolina Jasmine
- Gelsemium sempervirens Margarita - Carolina Jasmine
- Hedera canariensis - Algerian Ivy
- Hedera colchica - Persian Ivy
- Hedera helix varieties - English Ivy
- Hedera hibernica - Atlantic Ivy
- Humulus lupulus Aureus - Golden Hops
- Hydrangea anomala petiolaris - Climbing Hydrangea
- Ipomoea alba noctiflora - Moonflower Vine
- Ipomoea multifida - Cardinal Climber
- Ipomoea purpurea (Varieties) - Morning Glory
- Ipomoea quamoclit - Hummingbird Vine
- Ipomoea tricolor (Varieties) - Morning Glory
- Lonicera brownii Dropmore Scarlet - Scarlet Trumpet Honeysuckle
- Lonicera fragrantissima - Winter Honeysuckle
- Lonicera Honey Baby
- Lonicera japonica Halliana - Hall's Honeysuckle
- Lonicera maackii - Amur Honeysuckle
- Lonicera periclymenum Harlequin - Woodbine
- Lonicera sempervirens - Coral Honeysuckle
- Lonicera sempervirens Alabama Crimson - Coral Honeysuckle
- Lonicera sempervirens Blanche Sandman - Coral Honeysuckle
- Lonicera sempervirens John Clayton - Coral Honeysuckle
- Lonicera sempervirens Magnifica - Coral Honeysuckle
- Lonicera x heckrottii Goldflame - Goldflame Honeysuckle
- Lonicera x 'Late Dutch'
- Lonicera x 'Madarin'
- Mandevilla (Dipladenia) Red Riding Hood - Mandevilla
- Mandevilla Alice du Pont
- Mandevilla Amabilis
- Mandevilla Sun Parasol Crimson
- Manettia luteorubra - Candy Corn Vine
- Parthenocissus tricuspidata - Boston Ivy
- Parthenocissus tricuspidata Fenway Park
- Parthenocissus tricuspidata Veitchii
- Passiflora caerulea 'Waterloo Blue' - Blue Passionflower
- Passiflora incarnata - Purple Passion Flower
- Phaseolus coccineus - Scarlet Runner Bean
- Polygonum aubertii - Silver Lace Vine, Fleece Vine
- Schizandra chinensis - Magnolia Vine
- Schizophragma hydrangeoides - False Hydrangea
- Schizophragma hydrangeoides Moonlight - False Hydrangea Moonlight
- Schizophragma hydrangeoides Rosea - Pink False Hydrangea
- Thunbergia alata - Black-eye Susan Vine
- Thunbergia alata - White Clock Vine
- Trachelospermum jasminoides - Confederate Jasmine
- Vigna caracalla - Snail Vine
- Vitis sp. - Grapes
- Wisteria floribunda - Japanese Wisteria
- Wisteria floribunda Alba - Japanese Wisteria White
- Wisteria frutescens 'Amethyst Falls' - American Wisteria
- Wisteria sinensis - Chinese Wisteria
- Wisteria sinensis Alba - Chinese Wisteria White
- Wisteria sinensis Black Dragon - Chinese Wisteria