It's not a perrennial, but I am really loving the cypress vine I have planted on my cheap archway for the hummingbirds. It took a long time to bloom, but the leaves are so delicate and pretty and the bright perfect red flowers are worth waiting for. I like purple hyacinth bean, too - also an annual.

Wow - so many to choose from.

Porcelain vine
Variegated ivy 'Goldilocks'
Morning glories (any and all)
Clematis 'Dr. Ruppel', 'Polish SPirit', Jackmanii superba, Sweet Autumn CLematis, 'H. G. Young', 'Proteus', tangutica
Passiflora 'Incense'

I have a new one I'm really looking forward to, and it seems very vigorous, which is jasminum x stephanense (clusters of pink trumpet flowers), and is supposed to be beloved by hummingbirds and butterflies.

My neighbor tried a new one called aster carolinius and I think I'm going to have to have that next year!

Susan

My favorite has to be clematis of any kind. Never met one I didn't like. I'm fond of most all vines. Its hard sometimes to find enough fences and things to grow them on. Love cypress vines also, but at my last home they were so rampant that they covered and threatened to kill lots of more desirable plants. Reseeds everywhere! But it sure did look pretty in the fall blooming with the purple salvia leucantha!

We like all of our vines because we have a lot of chain link fence to cover. They include silver lace, sweet autumn clematis, akebia, bittersweet, 4 honeysuckles, Carolina snail seed. EP

Clematis is my favorite.
I also like mandevilla, morning glory & cypress vine.

I planted Hyacinth bean & liked it but it didn't grow very well for me for some reason. It bloomed but never got very tall. I'm going to try it again next year in a different location.

Debbie - what exposure did you grow it in? My friend across the street grows it, and it keeps reseeding every year. It grows from the ground up into the Bradford pear trees - about 30'. (See, Bradford pears ARE good for something!).

Enchanted place - is Carolina snail seed hardy? I think I saw it in Steve Dobbs' book?? Is it decorative; does it attract birds/hummingbirds/butterflies or anything? How fast does it grow? Just curious - always looking for a new vine to try.

Susan

Susan,
I have the Hyacinth Bean planted in full sun. It's barely 2 foot tall now & was planted in April.

I think it may be in a spot that is too wet for it?. I planted it in a dry spot but that was before my neighbor planted a crepe myrtle on his side of the fence. He waters it daily so the run off kept the hyacinth bean damp enough that I have never watered it.

I wish it would grow up my Bradford pear & choke it. LOL

OKC1..I have a question about a Silver Lace vine...Do you prune it back and if you do how much do you take off...It is 2 years old and growing very nicely on our back fence. It has bloomed both years in late summer (August). I have never pruned it back and don't want to do something to it that will kill it...
Thanks So Much for Your Answer..Deborah