Climbing Vines And Luster, Grace To Summer Landscape
By Kim E. Tripp
T^*e NCSU Arboretum
Ai summer begins to warm our
ber green cloak of mystery
growa to cover the bare bones of
winter’s tree trunks, fence posts,
done wells and empty trellises.
Woody vines make a beautif\il and
•specially graceful contribution to
summer's cloak, but in spite of this,
they are often overlooked in the
•plash of colors heaped on us by
spring's flowering trees, shrubs,
perennials and bulbs.
%t, as the season progresses,
the flowing outlines and interesting
flowers of many vines can provide a
•pedal feeling in the garden.
Climbing vines are wonderftd for
softening harsh structural outlines
or flir creating dimension and form
where only narrow vertical or
horisontal elements like metal
foam posts and chain link panels
. There are many interesting
cHmhlng vines with a great range of
character to offor, and some of the
most lovely are a group of plants
•ailed the climbing hydrangeas.
Climbing hydrangeas actuslly in
duds several different but related
plants native to China and Japan,
with similar but varied habit, form
and fbUags type
There am two true hydrangeas
Included in this group. The climb
ing hydrangea, Hydrangia
anomala subspecies pttiolarU, and
ths^epeclss itself, HydrOngta
The climbing hydrangea is a*
nUmMiigiiliM that mb ritmh «lww^
anything from a rock or brick wall
to a telephone pole «wi «« reach
IP hot given a structure to hold it.
It has gmtly lovely whits flowers
that are borne in flat-topped
dusters with showy outer flowers
and inconspicuous inner flowers,
much like many of the viburnums
and uiifiSr ths showy hydrangeas
in many older residential areas.
The flowers are carried in a semi
horisontal habit at different levels
up ths vine, which creates a
wonderftd threedimensional effect
in the flowering display.
Ths foliage is s rich emerald
green and is also carried somewhat
horiaontally and in various planes,
adding to ths spatial interest of ths
vine. The foliage remdina hand
some throughout the growing
■saaon and maintains its quality
right up until leaf fall in the
autumn. The bark on older plant*
develops a peeling habit and ia a
beautiful cinnamon color, which
add* to winter internet
Hydrangea anomaia ia different
from the climbing hydrangea in
that its leaves are narrower and
more oval in shape, and the flower
clusters are smaller and leas showy
in habit. Hydrangea anomaia is
also somewhat less hardy than the
climbing hydrangea, which is
hardy throughout the Eastern U.S.
as far north as New Wwglawd
Neither of these hydrangeas am
troubled bv diseases or pests and
both do boot in moist, well-drained
■oil that is high in organic matter.
The climbing hydrangea is not com
pletely hoot tolerant and could be a
good choice for a partially shaded
area dike a porch column).
Vegetative propagation is a bit
difficult According to Michael Dirr,
author of the Manual of Woody
Landscape Plants, cuttings taken
in early summer, before the steins
brown, have been rooted under
mist following rooting promoter ap
plication. Propagation from seed is
not difficult ae the seed can be sown
with no special treatment.
T>so other climbing hydrangeas
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are actually not hydrangeas at all
but are members of the related
genus, Schizophragma.
The Japanese hydrangea vine,
Schizophragma hydrangeoides,
has a much smoother and some
what denser habit than the hydran
geas. Japanese hydrangea vine has
more heart-shaped leaves and
sports less showy white flowers
whose clusters are somewhat
droopier.
Nonetheless, the flowers are
gently beautiful and combined with
the gloeay foliage fill a wonderful
space in the landscape. This vine is
almost as hardy as the climbing
hydrangea and is more tolerant of
the hot, wet summers of the
Southeast.
There is a cultivar of Japanese
hydrangea vine called ‘Roseum’
that offers delicate, blush-pink
flowers, but the color is very pale
and bleaches out in the heat of
Southern summers.
Another cultivar of Japanese ;
hydrangea vine is relatively new
and particularly special. Collected
in Japan, ‘Moonlight' glows with
blue-variegated foliage as the set
ting
Schizophragma integrifolium,
the Chinese hydrangea vine is more
oval and less serrated (or “toothed")
than its Japanese cousin but is
equally attractive. Chinese hydran
gea vine is especially tolerant of the
climate in the Southeast.
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