Hi Everyone,
I love tropical gardening. I really just started last year. I am in Southern California and I have many bananas, gingers, elephant ears, cannas, palms, New Guinea impatiens and orange and yellow cape honeysuckles. I am looking to plant 7-8 different vines around the backyard in different locations. Some will just get morning sun, some a little more than that and some will get some brutal afternoon sun so I'm looking for vines that are tropical looking big leafs or tropical looking flowers and also fragrant for at least a few. I have a corkscrew vine and a costa rican butterfly vine both I love. I also have 2 bougainvillea that do well here. I ordered a stictocardia vine and I believe I would like a Rangoon creeper. My husband and I have planted all of this ourselves and we have really fallen in love with tropical gardening. Thanks.
What are your favorite tropical vines?
There are so many to choose from, but some of my favorites are:
Thunbergia mysorensis
Strongylodon macrobotrys
Cissus discolor
Passiflora quadrangularis
Petrea volubilis
Mandevilla spendens
Stephanotis floribunda
Siyos macrophyllus is a favorite, but it is a subalpine vine which does not grow in gardens.
Banisteriopsis caapi is a beautiful vine, but once placed in a garden must be fervently controlled as it is very invasive.
My favorite is the frangipani vine. I love the fragrant flowers and some of it's leaves are larger than my hand!
Thunbergia Mysorensis is one of my faves as well, and of course the passion flower vines. So many different types of flowers, it's amazing.
Ecleticuno I have looked for that vine to get seeds were did you get it? Any imformation would be appreciated. I have the pelican vine its really cool puts off a 2 ft flower its in the dutchmans pipe vine family there cool too I just sent for ylang ylang vine seeds in thailand
Another super vine is sky blue I just got that one this fall and double blue pea vine another beatiful vine. i buy seed from ebay all the passion vines japanese morning glorys are way cool too. :) some many seeds so little time lol
I love the Spanish Flag vines:
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/1317/