Marianne's Response

Evergreen vines

Hi, I am in search of an evergreen vine preferably flowering for zone 8b. The location gets 5 hours morning sun, then dappled sun the rest of the day.
Thank you for your assistance

Posted by Ali Hunt on May 2, 2020

Marianne's Response

I grow a blooming vine called Akebia with unusual clusters of cream to chocolate tone flowers and it is naned the Chocolate Akebia vine. but this vine most often has purple to pink blooms. Mine flowers in May with just half a day of morning sun. There are also some evergreen clematis vine such as the clematis armandii that flowers in early spring and as a bonus has fragrance. You may want to get creative and plant both of these vines for different bloom times or combine a flowering vine like the purple clematis Jackmanni with an evergreen shrub such as Thuja arborvitae to support the vine. That way you would have year long evergreen foliage from the shrub but beautiful clematis  blooms in the summer. Keep growing, Marianne Binetti