help me find a vine please!

Hi,
I am new to the area and am unsure of vines that will grow here. I am looking for a vine that will grow rapidly 10+ ft tall in zone 8b-9a. I am in love with the star jasmine and wisteria vines but they require full sun to look nice. Unfortunately I have an all to partial shade (they are mainly shade) area they will be growing in. I am at a loss to find a pretty flowering vine to cover my house for this type of environment-HELP PLEASE!!!

I've grown star jasmine in mostly shade and it did fine. It got a bit of dappled sun in the morning but was in shade for the majority of the day and it seemed perfectly happy--grew and bloomed just fine. Wisteria definitely needs full sun and is also a big, heavy vine and I wouldn't recommend growing it up your house even if you had the right conditions for it.

I have a star jasmine vine growing in a north-facing corner of my flowerbed that gets some morning sun in the summertime. It's beautiful and has been growing there for three years. I love that it stays evergreen too. I tried one in full sun on the west side of my house but the cold winter wind killed it the first year.

ecrane's right. We can grow Star Jasmine in part shade here and it does just fine.

I'm also fond of Carolina Jessamine (Gelsemium sempervirens) that produces yellow flowers in early spring. Our nursery carries a Jessamine "combo pot" that comes with Carolina Jessamine and Swamp Jessamine - the name is terrible but it blooms in fall so with the two together it looks like your vine blooms twice a year.
Crossvine (Bignonia spp.) is another choice that would be evergreen in your zone. The foliage turns purple in winter and it produces orange to red trumpet shaped blooms in summer.
A lesser known vine yet one of the toughest and best looking through winter is the Sausage Vine (Holboellia coriacea). The flowers aren't that exciting but the foliage has a great, thick texture similar to Clematis armandii but without the finickiness.

Omigod I just moved out West from that area, I was in Morehead for nine years, LOL!

Carolina Jasmine is your baby for sure, grows fast, stays green in winter even when there is freezing conditions, blooms profusely, native and tough.

You might also look into some of the honeysuckle varieties. There is also an orange flowered trumpet vine I never grew or knew the name of but it was naturalized all over the place out there.

Finally, if you ever get out to Morehead, try to check out the Station Club Plant Sales. Station Club is an outfit that holds classes for mentally challenged young adults and teens.... friend of mine taught there for a while. They have a very cool horticulture program and do plant sales to raise money. The plant material sold is not professionally presented, there may be some weeds in there etc, and the conditions of the plants will vary, but they have lots of interesting stuff you will not find at Lowes, for instance, and cheap as heck. You have to check in with them about the schedule tho, they hold those sales on weekends only from time to time, used to do it on Mothers Day and then started being more frequent.

Sorry for babbling on, just fun to see someone posting from Havelock. ;-)

good luck!
Kyla

Thank you all very much, It has been a big help being able to use this site-Its amazing the amount of people wiling to help...Thanks again

I don't actually know how pretty these are but how about a Loofah Plant? They are vines and it'd be useful if you got loofahs off it in the end.

I wish I had a picture for you of a star jasmine I planted last year and is now winding around all the wood on my back porch. She grows in full shade and blooms like crazy. I am in zone 9 but my daughter lives in zone 8a and I do have a picture of her jasmine that has grown this much in less than two years.

She has some in full shade and some in full sun......doesn't seem to make much difference. Personally I have had both Carolina Jasmine (the yellow one and the leaves are a light light green....not nearly as pretty as the dark dark green of the star jasmine)

Here it is on a trellis her husband made for her. They only did this 18 months ago.

The wisteria is taking longer.........

Clematis is my favorite, I have a jackmanii which grew double its size first season, I live in zone 6 but believe they will grow in your zone also. If you prune back after flowering they will bloom again late in the season.
Several varities of clematis I also have the Henryi, large 6-8 inch blooms.

I can't believe you are posting from Ogden, UT. I know how cold it is there and wish we could grow clematis in zones 8 and 9 like you do. I know this is a wild guess , but Ogden is small and my cousin I grew up with next door here lives in Ogden. I will dmail you her name and see if the two of you have met. They moved from California to Ogden because they had had a ski place there and loved it so much.

gessiegail, I unfortunately don't know them... That would have been a trip huh.