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Climbing flower vines are an excellent addition to any garden, but they’re particularly useful for areas of the garden which need a bit more privacy. If your neighbors live a bit too close for comfort for instance, you can plant fast growing flower vines along a fence to block the view between your yards. If you live close to the street, planting flower vines can help block some of the noise created by that street traffic, and it can also provide your home with a bit more privacy too.

Flowering vines are also wonderful to use as general, inexpensive garden decorations too. They can be trained to grow up a trellis or arbor if you’d like, or you can have some growing up the rain gutters of your home. You can also have them grow up porch support posts, carport posts, a mailbox post, and more. Trailing vines look particularly beautiful climbing up around your doorway too.

There are many types of climbing vines, each creating their own gorgeous display of flower blooms and colors. Some flowering vines will grow thirty to forty feet or more, while others may only climb to a full height of five or six feet instead. Flowering vines come in both annual or perennial types, but even the annual vines usually drop seeds each fall, and resprout on their own each spring too, so they seem like perennials instead of annuals.

When choosing climbing flower vines for your garden, it’s best to know where you’ll plan to place it and how large it will actually get too. Some flowering vines are very aggressive growers, and they can become problem spots later if they’re trying to climb flimsy and inadequate support materials.

Most flowering vines don’t require much maintenance or care at all once they’ve been planted. They may suffer from transplant shock the first week or two after you put them into the ground, but they’ll recover quite nicely and start climbing away. You will of course need to water them regularly if you don’t live in an area that gets enough natural rainfall, and you may need to ocassional dead head old flower blooms or prune the vines to a shape you’d like. Some vines also need a bit of training when they’re still young too though, so you may have to help them figure out where to start climbing. Once they’ve taken hold though, there’s usually not much at all you have to do to take care of them.

Some of the most popular flowering vines you might like to try include: Morning Glories, Jasmine, Clematis, Hydrangea, and Bougainvillea.