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The Tampa Tribune

Published: October 13, 2007

Bleeding heart - white calyx surrounds a scarlet corolla tube flowering in large clusters spring through fall; Delectum is a red cultivar, and Variegata has variegated leaves; partial shade; twining

Blue glory - blue-purple flowers with yellow throats year-round; sun; 4- to 6-foot sprawling plant

Bougainvillea - showy red, purple, white, pink or coral petal-like bracts spring through fall; sun; thorns!; twining

Brown bud allamanda - yellow and rose flowers all year; sun to partial shade; fast-growing; twining

Butterfly pea - deep blue or purple flowers spring through fall; may die back in winter but rebounds; sun or partial shade; twining

Climbing aster - lavender blooms in fall; sun; sprawling plant

Confederate jasmine - fragrant white flowers in the spring (pink showers cultivar has light pink blooms); sun or shade; twining

Coral vine - pink blooms (usually) in warm months; sun; clinging tendrils

Cross vine - orange-yellow trumpet-shaped blooms in early spring; sun or shade; attracts hummingbirds; clinging tree climber

Flame vine - orange blooms in winter; reaches up to 80 feet tall, so prune after flowering; sun; clinging tendrils

Gloriosa lily - red and yellow-orange blooms in summer; sun and partial shade; twining

Mandevilla - depending on the cultivar, blooms pink, white, red or yellow spring through fall; sun; twining

Night blooming cereus (cactus) - spectacular white blooms up to a foot wide once a year on a summer night; sun or shade; climbs masonry walls and tree trunks; clinging

Painted trumpet - large lavender blooms with purple streaks in the spring; sun; clinging tendrils

Passionflower - white and purple or red flowers spring through summer; native; sun; clinging tendrils

Pink jasmine - clusters of fragrant white flowers emerge from showy pink buds during the winter; sun or partial shade; twining

Potato vine (some potato vines are invasive, including Dioscorea bulbifera, commonly known as air potato; get Solanum jasminoides, which is noninvasive) - white, star-shaped blooms in clusters spring through fall; sun; twining

Trumpet creeper - tubular orange-red blooms spring through summer; native; sun or shade; clinging tree climber

Trumpet honeysuckle - orange-scarlet blooms with yellow insides spring through summer; native; sun or shade; twining

Yellow jessamine - fragrant yellow flowers late winter through early spring; native; sun or partial shade; poisonous!; twining.

Source: 'Flowering Vines for Florida,' by Sydney Park Brown and Gary W. Knox, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida

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