Red Flowering Vines
Below you will find a list of Vines from our plant database that are red flowering. If you click on any of the photos, you will see a Virtual Plant Tag that may contain photos, plant descriptions, usage suggestions and a link to where you can buy that plant for your landscaping.
The vines can be grown on trellises, fences and pergolas, around patios and decks, under trees, and directly on walls. Most of these vines grow well with average soil moisture and partial shade, though some can take full shade or full sun giving the home gardener more options for use in the landscape.
Some of the red flowering vines are native plants, which are more naturally insect resistant, salt tolerant and have natural disease resistance. The two most well known native vines that flower red are Campsis radicans, known by the descriptive commons names of Common Trumpetcreeper, Hummingbird Vine and Trumpet Vine and Lonicera sempervirens, known equally well as either Trumpet or Coral Honeysuckle. Both vines are lovely additions to the home garden, since they both strongly attract hummingbirds. What is more beautiful than a lively garden filled with flowers, fragrance and georgous wildlife? A number of selections of named cultivars have been chosen to add a wider range of red colors and bloom time. For the Hummingbird Vine the named cultivars include 'Crimson Trumpet' that is a glowing, pure red and 'Oconee', a large flowered red that tolerates the south's heat well. Trumpet Honeysuckle's cultivars include 'Cedar Lane' with deep vermilion red blooms, 'Leo' with red to orange-red flowers, and 'Magnifica' with large red flowers with yellow interiors that flower sporadically all summer with adequate soil moisture. A less well known red flowering, native vine is the Scarlet or Texas Clematis, Clematis texensis, a tough and sturdy summer and Autumn flowering plant that extends the bloom time greatly.
No list of vines with red flowers would be complete without discussing Clematis. This list of cultivars would include the more widely known Jackman Hybrid selections, such as 'Crimson Star' and the outstanding work of new European breeding that is bringing new double-flowered varieties and selections with ruffled edges to the petals. The extensive breeding is resulting in longer bloom times and more compact forms popular for today's small space gardens and patio containers. Interesting new uses add excitement and texture by espaliering or growing in combination with other plants like roses, ornamental shrubs and evergreens already in the home garden, where the vines can grown directly over the other plants, adding perennial color and a new look with very little effort.
