Weeds We Dont Want: Honeyvine Milkweed - Daves Garden Also known as bluevine, climbing milkweed, dog’s-collar, Enslen’s vine, peavine, sandvine, smooth anglepod, or smooth swallow-wort, honeyvine milkweed is aggressive and invasive
Partridgeberry: A Steppable Groundcover - Daves Garden Partridgeberry (Mitchella repens) is a non-climbing herbaceous to woody vine that forms an evergreen, ground-hugging groundcover A member of the Rubiaceae (madder) family, this prostrate vine is n
Pruning and Maintaining Your Grape Vines - Daves Garden The green tape holds the vine to the trellis without hurting the plant or impacting its growth Special Considerations for the First Year For first-year vines, your focus should be on establishing a trunk If you’ve just received your grape vines, you'll want to select the shoots that looks the strongest and cut the rest of the plants back to
10 Hardy Vines You Should Know - Daves Garden Unfortunately for gardeners in more intemperate climates, most interesting vines are annuals, tropical or completely invasive If you are on a search for vines that will remain robust perennials in
Using Nets on Grapevines - Daves Garden My grape vine grew longer and bigger every year because I was afraid to prune it too much A friend told me what his mom told him about pruning the grape vine - to trim the dry wood at the top of the thin branches
Yellow Butterfly Vine - Daves Garden The vine that attracted my attention is Callaeum macropterum syn Mascagnia macroptera Hailing from Baja, California and Mexico, this plant is also sometimes called butterfly pea vine, yellow orchid vine, or gallinita The seller of the vine knew how to attract the attention of a person who frequently works with children in junior gardener programs She had constructed several grapevine
Cups of Gold: The Chalice Vine - Daves Garden A vine that can bloom this big near the shortest day of the year still seems to me little short of miraculous! Note: The solandra maxima photo is mine, the solandra grandiflora photo is by TwoWillies of Dave's Garden, and the Solandra grandiflora fruit photo is by Scott Zona, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons