Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Friends don't let friends plant ivy..., 1 by DaleTheGardener

DaleTheGardener wrote:
Dutch Lady, your vine is easy to root when the weather is warm. If you take a 'runner' , bend or bruise a little, place the bent area in soil, keep it moist and it will root.

Rox, zone 9 is on the past the edge of the tropical vine zones. Most tropical vines will die back to the ground every year. If your friend insists on trying them anyway look up Thunbergia mysorensis or perennial blue morning glory-Ipomoea acuminata. Both having a long mid summer flowering period and come back from hard wood. Keep in mind that it is not a hardy plant and even a light frost will damage them and then there is a lot of clean up.

If I were in zone 9 I would go with carolina jasmine, evergreen clematis, Tecomaria capensis, Mandevilla laxa or a lonicera (honeysuckle) they are all hardy in 9 (Sunset zone 28). There is a Lonicera hildebrandiana that has huge leaves, for a honeysuckle, and is hardy in his zone. Flowers are nice but not as showy as the red flowering kinds.

Here is mandevilla laxa from plantfiles...