Best Tropical Vine for Indoors

Suggestions?
I've tried and failed with Vigna Caracella(sp), Beaumontia grandiflora, although Mom has one barely hanging in, Pride of Barbados...not a vine, but still an indoor failure. Jasmines hate my house for some reason...

I'm in the process of trying Passiflora and Gloriosa Lily...seeds will be arriving soon.

Any other ideas?

My Aunt has had some luck with a Stephanotis... I'll ask her for an update on its status... she's had it at least a year...
Brittany

Your failure is most likely a result of the air indoors being too dry. With any troipical vine I suggest frequent misting.

Have you tried Hoyas?

Hoyas... yea, there are a lot of Arizona gardeners that have had HUGE success with these... I haven't tried them yet but hey, who else has drier inside air... lol...
Brittany

Stepanotis is a good one.. I must have40' of it around afew windows... and it spent a year inside.. usually it goes out but a few years ago it spent the entire summer inside.. along with the twowinters oneither side of it.. notreall heavy bloomer inside.. but sometimes.. I've 30-40 ' of passis.. they seldom bloom.. thumbergia is often blooming inside and grows well.. thebest.. most cooperative of the vines.. for me inside..are the clearodendrum.. thomsoniae
http://logees.com/prodinfo.asp?number=R1174-4
once it gets settled.. it flowersalmost all of the time through out the year
pictured is it a few months ago.. and it's still about the same today..

OH yea, I have Hoyas...30 or so and more on the way. I like to experiment though, figure a nice tropical flowering vine would look nice in amongst the Hoyas.
Problem is finding one that doesn't mind some dryish winter air.

GordonHawk, cross posted with you. That is one beautiful vine!!

Thank you for the recommendation!

this is the same vine... last year it started flowering inside aboutthe same time.. say the first of Feburary.. here it is still growing and still flowering in September..after it was moved outside in May .. 8 months of flowers is being pretty cooperative..
edited to include: OH.. the Logees link says it is growing 2-3 ' in a container... well.. here it's more like 10' - 20' but then with the ammount of food and additives it gets... it's a small wonder it's not trying to fly..

This message was edited Mar 29, 2009 11:09 AM

Thank's GordonHawk for posting. Clerodendrum is now on my "must have list".

For those of us who have a rather hard time keeping humidity level's up during the Winter month's can also add humidifier's. They sure do help!

Rachel

Gordon, great picture of your porch... great view with the flowers... love it...
Brittany

Rachel.. there's alot of clerodendrums out there.. Ialso like the one with the blue flowers.. that look like little butterflies.. and then there's the red one like thomsoniae..but with the white part more of a red.. this one ..the thomsoniae.. is my pick.. it also comes in a variagated leaf form.. but it's not as robust a performer... I've Always loved Rural Retreat's name...been going through on I-81 for years on the path to mothers.. in N. AL ..
3gardeners.. there does seem to be three of you there replying I'd cross posted with you... but not you..although on the same name.. hope it works out for you... can't really say about how it does dry.. although it's sometimes air conditioned here.. and the winter has three humidifiers going... well one has broken now.. and the others don't seem to make much of a difference.. although they do drink alot of water.. so I guess they do.. but with it taking 40 gallons of waterto water everything inside here.. there's a lot of water going on..

Brittany.. well.. thanks.. it's not a porch though... but the roof top of the 4 story building.. I have the top floor of.. we've got a few things to grow... disptie my ground being 95 % petroleum..

Beautiful garden you have Gordon. Thank's for the information on the clerodendrum varieties.

Reply on Rural Retreat.......it's definately a "retreat";-) Very,very small town with only one cop who patrol's. I heard he does not even carry a gun. And just to add....I have a brother named Gordon.


Have a wonderful day

Rachel

I grew an Aristolchia inside for many years. It was very happy being near a window.
Here's a photo of it blooming inside the house. My goodness, that is from 2003, and I had it at work for a while, so it is about 6-7 years old now, always in a pot.
I like it because it can droop horribly when it needs water and comes right back once you water it.
Not exactly a "pretty" houseplant, though.

I don't know how Gloriosas are going to do for you, they can get real leggy and ugly if they don't have enough light.

I was wondering if the Aristolchia's would actually bloom as an in-door houseplant. I bought the exact one you are showing lakeside last fall so now I know that mine may bloom as well. I really like it for it's foliage as well.

Rachel

I think my jaw dropped so hard that I bruised myself when it hit the floor... wow... that's a gorgeous rooftop... just amazing...
Brittany

Gordon, beautiful garden!!!! What is the plant in the white pot just left of center?

Marianne (from Florida Gardening thread)

Wow, Gordon!! Holy schmoley! Good for you, it's beautiful!

Marianne.. OH>>Thank you... well if you mean the two small pots near the slightly open hatch to the stairway... the first one next to it is a brug I believe.. it looks like the plumbago next to it is hanging it's flowers over onto it though.. ya'll grow big plumbago there.. and I've heard they are looked down on as amost a trash plant.. they do so well and are so easy .. or something.. that escapes me .. as I love them so..I just have to have a few of them.. I've thoes pictured.. overwintered inside.. and with big flower bunches above my head right now.. got ta love em.. and in blue..
Oh.. Brittany.. quite a jaw you've got there... amazing indeed... well.. thanks.. it is as you can tell a great love.. as difficult and as wonderful..
there must be an inside vine out here somewhere... to keep on topic..
this is the front 1/2 of the garden..

WOW, you make Brooklyn look like an almost nice place to live!!

Gordon, I meant the little white pot sitting on the floor next to the blue flowers! It looks like something I recently purchased that stands about 5 ft tall, called Tabernai Montana Crassa. Your plant just looked smaller, but very similar leaves.
Marianne

GordonHawk, I'm in LOVE with that clearodendrum. It's beautiful ... for some reason, it strikes me as an asian plant, perhaps the colors. I would love to have that as an addition to my plant world. You say it does well indoors in the winter? Do you keep it trimmed back to a shrub, or let it vine, when it's indoors?

And I'm green with envy over your patio ... it's absolutely beautiful with those views!

Hi Gordon,

I forgot how wonderful your gardens are, for it's been a long time since we have been on the same thread. They are truly amazing. You are lucky to grow plants inside for it is a lost cause for me, and Lord knows I've tried. There is film on my windows and my main bath, with film, is on the N side of the house shaded further by a pergola. But outside, that's another story.

Hap