When you're deciding to cover your chain link or other wire fences, look no further than these 6 beauties. These vines are the best for growing on fences, trellises, and lattice panels for privacy.
Each is a fast growing perennial vine and all provide gorgeous summer flowers that will attract butterflies, hummingbirds and bees.
When you're deciding to cover your chain link or other wire fences, look no further than these 6 beauties. These vines are the best for growing on fences, trellises, and lattice panels for privacy.
Each is a fast growing perennial vine and all, except the evergreen ivy, provide gorgeous summer flowers that will attract butterflies, hummingbirds and bees.
1. Lonicera Scentsation - a well behaved honeysuckle variety that you can plant on fences, arbors, trellises..
2. Madame Galen Trumpet Creeper - New Window - bright coral-red trumpet shaped flowers.
3. Bignonia Tangerine Beauty - (commonly called Crossvine) - Pretty tangerine trumpet-shaped flowers. Semi-evergreen to evergreen vine. Now booking for May/June shipping.
4. Yellow Trumpet Creeper - Strong growing. Produces yellow trumpet-shaped flowers in summer.
5. New WindowAmethyst Falls Wisteria - Smaller growing wisteria. Perfect in containers on porches or used on arbors and trellises.
6. Major Wheeler Honeysuckle - Red tubular flowers summer to fall.
As you will be planting these at the bottom/base of the fencing, they will need direction as they grow. Once any new growth is long enough to attach to the fence, secure it with twist ties or old fabric cut into narrow strips. Spacing is good at every 2 or so feet.
