Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Vines for the back porch

One idea would be to put vines up the back porch. These would be in full shade so finding vines that will work is hard. Here are a few:
Japanese Honeysuckle - Lonicera japonica
Orange Honeysuckle - Lonicera ciliosa
Oriental Bittersweet - Celastrus orbiculatus
Wu Wei Zi - Schisandra chinensis

Wu Wei Zi appears to be the coolest.

I will try to write on this with my notes about different vines: Vines

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I was also thinking some evergreen vines for wind protection in the winter; that side of the house is quite cold.