Thursday, July 23, 2009

Improving Your Yard With Climbing Vines

Climbing vines can be placed in your garden and around structures in your yard, to add variety and a splash of colour. There is a large variety of climbing plants you can use in your yard, from climbing roses under your front porch, sweet peas along your fence and morning glory growing along a pole in your front yard. All these plants produce beautiful flowers to improve the shades of colour all over your yard.

Your only limit is the space and the structure for your plants to grow around. You may set up a few poles for the plants to climb and some wires to connect the poles, so the plants can move from pole to pole. Depending on your choice of climbing plant, some plants are voracious and will move between poles quite quickly, while others may only grow on one pole.

Growing a variety of climbing plants over different areas of your home, can improve the comfort level in your yard. During the summer you can take advantage of shading provided by climbing plants, especially grapevines.

Some climbing plants may find local conditions hostile and may not grow. You need to confirm with your local nursery staff on the best climbing plants to suit your local conditions.

You are not limited to flowering vines for your choice of climbing plants in your garden and yard. You may be able to grow grape vines. The advantage of grapevines are the delicious grapes that grow in the summer and if you grow enough grapes, you may look at making some of your own wine.

These tips are some of the many ways you can take advantage of opportunities to add colour to structures in your yard with climbing vines.

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