Lianas. Scindapsus, or tropical decorative liana, in home floriculture
Lianas - one of the varieties with flexible thin stems native to tropical forests. AT natural conditions they grow upward, towards the light and the sun, clinging to the trunks and branches of neighboring plants. AT room conditions liana plant species are able to use as special props, garters.
Indoor creepers
In room conditions, creepers can decorate corners and sheer surfaces. types of vines are flowering and non-flowering, accents are either on flowers or on decorative leaves, large and small sizes. All types of indoor vines need support. In the fruit of vines there are 50-100 seeds, the shape of which is cylindrical or ovoid, rounded, 3-6 mm in diameter, 5-10 mm long.
Did you know? No plants in the world are longer tropical vines. This is due to the fact that the vines need to overtake the growth of the host tree, into the crown of which they climb. Finding intermediate supports for themselves on trees, they sometimes stretch along them for hundreds of meters.
Photos and names
The most common are flowering and unpretentious indoor creepers. Among the many names of indoor vines, the most popular plants are cissus (birch), scindapsus, common ivy.
According to one version, it is believed that the name of this indoor vine comes from the word "monster" because of the huge cut leaves and hanging roots, which the first travelers who saw in the tropics perceived as the legs of a monster. She is often referred to as a "crybaby" for bizarre forms her roots. 
Monstera often sprouts on the tops of trees, where birds bring its seeds. From there, with the help of its aerial roots, it reaches the soil and takes root. Under natural conditions, it is able to reach tens of meters in length, at home - 5-6.
It has huge, wiry dark green leaves reaching up to 0.5 m on long cuttings. Whole, heart-shaped leaves eventually become pinnate with slits.
By in vivo you can predict the weather thanks to its hydathodes - special organs located on the lateral processes. Water is released on them on days with high humidity. Slits on the leaves provide patency of flows from tropical rains and allow it not to break.In addition to the main stem, monstera has well-developed additional ones. They, in fact, are aerial roots that provide the plant with additional moisture and nutrition, serving as additional supports. They grow from the nodes of the main stem and grow towards to take root there. 
Originally from South and Central America, belongs to the genus Aroid. Out of 30 known species at home, they grow such as monstera oblique and unequal, monstera perforated (Adanson), monstera lovely (delicacy). For all these species, a bright place and space are important in the room.
The plant grows completely in the 4-5th year of its life and has a diameter of up to 3 meters, sticks tightly to the walls with its lateral roots. But even so, she needs additional supports and tying.
Blooms rarely at home. The flowers are small, inflorescence-cob with a white-green hood. After flowering, a cob fruit with a sour taste and smell of pineapple is formed.
The fruits of the delicacy in her homeland are eaten.
indoor flower- liana, one of 25 species of the Aroid family from Southeast Asia. Due to its similarity with ivy, it got its name from the Greek word skindapsus. 
Like the monstera, it has, in addition to the fibrous underground root system, also additional aerial roots.
In room conditions, it also grows well, unpretentious. It has oval, alternately arranged on the stem, sinewy leaves of different variegation and shades of green. Almost never blooms.
Can grow in both dark and bright rooms. This winding among the people was named by visual similarity - "grapes" and "ivy". In fact, it is with flexible shoots with antennae, therefore it forms a crown very beautifully from a suspended pot or on a stand. Belongs to the grape family.
It has simple oval or dissected leaves, rarely blooms indoors. Cissus flowers are small, collected in false umbrellas.
Most often, under room conditions, Cissus antarctic and Cissus rhomboid are grown - shade- and temperature-tolerant plants. In winter, these species are able to withstand temperatures down to minus 10 degrees, and in summer they can endure hot and dry air. 
One of the numerous genera of the Aroid family, which includes up to 900 names. The name, translated from Greek, sounds like “I love a tree” and reflects the essence of the growth of this liana plant. It grows in tropical forests, is found in swamps, on the banks of rivers, in the lower belts of mountains. It has aerial roots and suckers. Differs in life forms depending on the habitat.
Like other climbing species, it is a semi-epiphyte. Some of its primary forms may be wholly, that is, climbing plants. Of these, only the secondary form takes root.
Under natural conditions, the main characteristics of liana plants are presented: underground and air root systems, antennae and suckers. Philodendron develops leaves of two types: first scaly, in the axils of which lateral buds develop (photo), and then ordinary, on a long petiole, inside which rudimentary inflorescences form. 
Did you know? The record among liana plants belongs to the rattan palm. The longest of the rattan vines - kalamus is the best. The length of its stem exceeds 300 meters.
All this is located on the main shoot, which ends with an inflorescence. Scientists still do not know where the next shoots grow from.
Scale-like leaves are also called cataphylls - usually green, hard during the period of bud protection on the stem. Then, when a leaf is formed, the cataphylls fall off, leaving marks on the stem.
The leaves are alternate on the petiole with a sheath. The leaves of some species reach up to 2 meters in length. The shape of the leaves of this plant can be oval, arrow-shaped and other forms, whole and dissected, sometimes twice. Seedlings have heart-shaped leaves.
An interesting fact is that leaves are found on the same plant. different forms.
In adult plants, as a result of morphogenesis, leaves of various shapes and sizes are formed.
Flowers also have much in common with other types of vines - this is an inflorescence-cob that forms a fruit-cob. The cob is similar to wax due to the density of flowers, self-pollinating.
Another representative of vines is syngonium. stems young plant participate in photosynthesis, have a width of several millimeters in early age up to 6 cm during its maximum development. With age, the outer epidermis has a slight tendency to crack, reducing the flexibility of the stem. There are species with a wax coating of the stem.
The roots of the signonium are of two types - nourishing and scototropic.
The leaves of the syngonium are cut into several parts. Bottom part relatively smooth. On the top sheet- barely noticeable longitudinal vein, lateral veins do not reach the leaf edge. The reticulate nature of venation is hallmark syngonium leaves.
Inflorescences-cobs have small distances between flowers. 
Blooming indoor vines amaze with their beauty. The saturation of colors, the waxiness of the figures of flower petals, the aroma attract and cause admiration. One of these flowers is. - a genus of vines from the Lastovnevy family - climbing evergreen. It has oval, leathery, ovate leaves. Inflorescences are axillary, with a rounded fleshy corolla with five members. Flowers are collected in an umbrella.
It grows both in warm and cool rooms, it is also picky about the air.
Second name - Madagascar jasmine or marsdenia. From Greek words"stephanos" - crown and "otos" - ear, belongs to the Lastovnev family. The name was given by the shape of the flower, resembling a crown with petals bent like ears. At home, out of 16 species, only stephanotis floribunda is grown, which is a blooming indoor vine.
In room conditions, the flower reaches 5 meters in length. Its leaves are oval with a pointed apex, leathery, entire, dark green, 7-9 cm long and 4-5 cm wide. The flowers of the room are waxy, like a funnel, up to 4 cm in diameter, fragrant. Flowers are white or cream color. Under natural conditions, flowers are found in both yellow and light purple. They form an inflorescence-beam, numbering up to 7 flowers. 
Mandevilla (diplosion)
She is the most attractive of flowering domestic vines, but whimsical. At home, it reaches up to 4 meters in length, has leathery, shiny, dark green oval leaves with a sharp point at the top.
It is formed both as a climbing vine and as a bush. But the decoration is large funnel-shaped flowers, which are white, crimson, red or color pink. Each flower has five petals. On one plant, up to 80 flowers can bloom at the same time and do not fade for 10 days. The flowering period is from spring to autumn.
The most popular due to their beauty for flower growers are:
- brilliant mandewila;
- mandeville Sander;
- loose mandevilla;
- Mandevilla Bolivian;
- the mandevilla is excellent.
Mandeville does not tolerate low temperatures. For better root renewal and crown formation, she really needs pruning. 
Important!Mandevilla juice is poisonous!
When caring for, you need to wear gloves, keep children and animals away from the plant.
Thunbergia
Liana from the acanthus family. It reaches up to 1.5 meters in room conditions. The leaves are heart-shaped at the base, up to 7 centimeters long. Represents one of the most fast growing plants Aroid family. It can be both in the form of a bush, and vines or
In order for green "pets" to please you with beauty and health, they need to find a suitable support. And it, in turn, depends on what kind of "climber" belongs to. So, let's figure it out.
Parthenocissus (pictured variety "Veitchii") with three-lobed leaves that turn bright red in autumn, grows very quickly
climbing vines
Plants of this species:- wisteria (Wisteria);
- honeysuckle (Lonicera);
- hops (Humulus);
- kirkazon (Aristolochia);
- akebia (Akebia).
These are climbing representatives of the flora, which cannot climb to heights without support. They wrap around it and are fixed on the structure with their shoots. Such vines are suitable for the most simple supports, for example, poles (in the figure on the left, honeysuckle and hops curl along them) or stretched wire. 
1. Curly creepers - honeysuckle and hops. 2. The most famous half-liana - climbing rose - is combined with clematis (it belongs to clinging vines). 3. Climbing creepers girlish grapes and petiolate hydrangea are attached to a vertical surface with aerial roots or appressors
Some plants twist the stems clockwise, others against, while the second group includes more plants.
How far to plant the plant from the wall depends on how fast the vine grows.. So, when planting "high-speed" wisteria, the support should be at a distance of about 20 cm from the wall of the house, and in the case of less fast honeysuckle, it is enough to retreat only 5 cm. Curly vines are found both among perennials (kirkazon, wisteria) and among annuals (for example, winged tunbergia and morning glory).
Actinidia, like wisteria, needs a strong trellis. Plants are so powerful that they can even deform drainpipes!
Actinidia, like wisteria, needs a strong trellis
Ipomoea shines on the garden stage for only one season.
This creeper strewn with catchy flowers climbs to a height of up to 3 m.
Read more about growing and caring for it in the article:
Leaning creepers or semi-lianas
Plants of this species:- climbing rose (Rosa);
- naked jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum);
- shrub blackberry (Rubus fruticosus).
Rose "Bobby James" strewn with white flowers. This rambler is great for landscaping facades and old fruit trees.
Climbing roses are strong when their long, flexible stems and side shoots threaded through the cells of the lattice support
Since half-lianas do not have fasteners in the classical sense of the word, and they themselves are not able to wrap around the support, their flexible shoots must be regularly attached to it (with the help of thorns, thorns, hairs or protruding side shoots, they simply hold on to the support, but do not climb it in any way). If the structure has a smooth polished surface, it is advisable to additionally tie up the shoots. Semi-lianas are suitable for both vertical columns and trellises made of cables stretched across, thick wire or nailed transverse strips.
When buying a trellis and mesh support, pay attention to the size of the cells - they must be large enough. For example, for a climbing rose, the mesh should be with cells of at least 30 cm in size, otherwise the thick lashes of the plant will become cramped over the years.
As in the case of climbing vines, when planting a half-liana, it is necessary to retreat from the facade by at least 20 cm. By the way, lignified half-lianas gain significant mass with age, therefore the structure must be stable.
For berry bushes trellises are perfect. Plants formed on them bloom better and, accordingly, bear fruit.
A blackberry without thorns does not hold well on a support, so its whips, unlike its prickly "brother", must be additionally tied up.
A blackberry without thorns does not hold well on a support, so its whips must be additionally tied up
However, after reading the article, you will see that the garter is necessary for all modern blackberry varieties.
climbing creepers
Plants of this species:- ivy (Hedera);
- girlish grapes (Parthenocissus);
- petiolate hydrangea (Hydrangea petiolaris);
- campsis (Campsis);
- Fortune's euonymus (Euonymus fortunei).
This group of plants generally does without support, since these vines are attached to a vertical surface. aerial roots or appressors (special organs of attachment such as suckers), which is clearly seen in the example of girlish grapes and petiolate hydrangea, climbing straight up the brickwork:
The mustache turned into suckers makes it possible girlish grapes climb up to a height of up to 15 m without support.
Mustaches that have turned into suckers make it possible for girl's grapes to climb up to a height of up to 15 m along the facades without support.
petiolate hydrangea uses aerial roots to attach to the wall. On very smooth surfaces, it is still desirable to install a support.
Hydrangea petiolate uses aerial roots to attach to the wall. On very smooth surfaces, it is still desirable to install a support
It is to these vines that the attitude of gardeners is very different: some like the power and unbridledness of these plants, while others are infuriated by raised tiles on the roof, as well as damaged brickwork joints and clogged gutters. One thing is clear: if you do not want to give up these plants, you will have to prune them regularly.
By the way, think carefully about where you "settle" climbing vines. External thermal insulation of the house and decorative cladding, as a rule, are not hardy enough. In addition, the attachment organs of the vines and their remains are incredibly difficult to remove from the wall. If you want to plant a wall at home, choose better climbing plants, climbing on a support: they are easier to keep in check. Fences, partitions and stable wooden pergolas, that is, those places where climbing vines can calmly develop and will not cause harm - the most suitable area for the application of plants of this species. And one more thing: while ivy and girlish grapes conquer even the most unthinkable heights with ease and absolutely independently, for campsis and petiole hydrangea it is necessary stretch the wire. Indeed, due to their considerable mass, they can simply break off, even despite being fastened with aerial roots.
clinging creepers
Plants of this species:- clematis (Clematis);
- passionflower (Passiflora);
- rank (Lathyrus);
- grapes (Vitis);
- lagenaria (Lagenaria).
How large the cells should be depends entirely on the plant. So, for a refined clematis, a mesh with cells of 5 cm is suitable, but for powerful lashes of grapes you will need “holes” up to 20 cm in size.
Downspouts can be planted with vines of this type by installing special semicircular supports, for example, made of aluminum
Besides, the crossbars of the support should be no thicker than a finger so that the petioles and tendrils of plants can easily cover them. 
Clematis and K hold on to a support, wrapping their leaf petioles around it. That is why the crossbars must be thin
Support must be installed at a distance of 5-15 cm from the wall depending on the growth rate of the plant itself. If you want to use clinging vines for landscaping the facade, guiding them, for example, in the form of a fan, you can use ready-made support structures or make them yourself (ideally from wire with a plastic sheath or cables from of stainless steel). For such non-traditional designs fastenings must be especially strong so that the cables or wire can be well tensioned.
Text: Dieke van Dieken.
Photo: Jürgen Becker, MSG/L. Prickung, M. Staffler; Garpa, P. Hahn, Ulrike Romeis.
Production: K. Nennstiel/C. Hartman.
Pictures: Flora Press/Practical Pictures, MSG/Claudia Schick.
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Liana is a broad concept that includes all climbing and climbing plants that have a variety of ways to attach to a support. It was introduced into scientific terminology by the German naturalist Alexander Humboldt in 1806.
The word "liana" comes from the French verb Her and its older Latin form ligare, to bind. In the GDR and the FRG, Liana is everywhere - the name of a girl, which means "embrace", "embracing". in French and German, in addition, the root of the word liana is found in the concepts of "love affair", "intrigue", "intentionally contact or connect", "tape".
In fairy tales, myths and legends, creepers are rarely mentioned. In the tale of Daphnis and Chloe from ancient Greek mythology talking about plush. In the old Arabic literature there is a mention of a curly bean. The famous dervish points to him to people and compares: "Just as this bean cannot reach the sky, so a person cannot enter paradise, but when it bears fruit, like a fiery bean, Allah exalts it." There is also a fairy tale about the sleeping beauty princess. It mentions climbers.
In our imagination, creepers are usually associated with rainforests. The stories of travelers about creepers in the tropics remain in the memory for a long time: "They twist around thinner trunks, hang from branches, spread from tree to tree, hang on branches with powerful festoons, like snakes crawl along the ground with huge twists or lie on it in tangled balls. Some thin, smooth, similar to aerial roots, others coarse and knotted; often they are tied to each other like real ropes; some of them are flat, like ribbons, others are jagged, intricately sinuous.
Lianas are called large group plants different types and botanical genera belonging to different families. They are united by some common structure, mainly the stem - flexible, unable to stand upright on its own. To climb up, the stem of the vine must have support. Wrapping around it or clinging to it with the help of leaves, tendrils, thorns, roots and other devices, it can be held in the appropriate position.
The whole variety of devices for fixing on a support in vines is most fully manifested in tropical rainforests. Their stems, resembling ropes, form loops and swings here. Using them, you can make your way through the forest without stepping on the ground. During the rainy season, when walking on clay slippery soil is almost impossible, people with relief grab hold of the flexible and durable stems hanging in abundance from everywhere. But woe to the traveler when on his way he comes across a reed rattan palm tree, the thin stem of which is planted with sharp thorns. Braiding near standing plants, rattan forms impenetrable thickets. And if the traveler did not stock up on a cleaver to cut his way, then soon his clothes would be torn, and his body would be wounded, wrapping around a tree trunk, creepers can form a steep spiral with their shoots, resembling a coiled spring. But sometimes the coils of this spiral are so far away from each other that it seems as if the vine is growing, just clinging to the tree.
The internal structure of the vines is also interesting. Their main trunk wood usually consists of vascular-fibrous bundles surrounded by softer tissue. Forced to draw water often for tens of meters along the trunk, creepers are always characterized by vessels with simple perforations, which provide an efficient water supply system. The long and wide conducting vessels are so wide that their openings can be seen on the cut with the naked eye. In this regard, the trunk of the vine is not only outside, but also along internal structure resembles a rope, combining flexibility with high tensile strength.
Lianas are ancient plants, the maximum of their development falls on the Paleogene. Numerous climbing plants from ferns grew in the forests of the Carboniferous period. In antiquity, creepers are second only to trees and shrubs.
Evolution of life forms angiosperms went from trees through shrubs and semi-shrubs to perennial and further to annual grasses. This path can also be traced in vines: from woody vines to herbaceous ones. The transformation of woody forms into herbaceous ones began at the dawn of the evolution of flowering plants. In parallel, there was a transformation of erect trees into lianoidal growth forms. This process occurs independently and different time in the most distant groups of plants, in the most diverse climatic conditions and ecosystems. It can be observed most clearly in humid tropical and subtropical forests, which have a complex community structure and numerous ecological niches. Here, countless herbaceous flowering plants arose precisely as a result of their adaptation to the climbing liana lifestyle. Herbaceous vines currently represent the absolute majority among vines of all floristic regions. the globe. Among woody vines, shrub vines (climbing shrubs) received the greatest development. Root climbing vines with adventitious roots are closely related to creeping plants that form numerous adventitious roots on the stems.
Trees with a lianoidal trunk, not capable of upright growth and using neighboring woody plants as a support, distributed exclusively in humid tropical areas. Lianoid shrubs, semi-shrubs, semi-shrubs and herbs are found in all regions of the globe, except for the polar and alpine zones, deserts and steppes.
The flora of the USSR, represented by 160 families, 1676 genera and 21,000 species, includes 223 species of vines, which is slightly more than 1%. These vines naturally growing in our country belong to 41 families and 72 genera. The vast majority of vines are herbaceous. Shrub lianas are represented by 64 species, semi-shrub - 3 and semi-shrub - 2 species. It is about these vines, united by the name tree vines, that this book is written.
Lianas related to life form trees and shrubs are not found in our country. Tree vines are most fully represented on our website. Far East(30 species). This is due to the preservation in this floristic region of ancient, relict species of flora that escaped death during the ice age, and climate features favorable for lianas - humid, hot summers and dry winters with little snow. There are no woody vines in the Arctic; they are rare in Eastern and Western* Siberia (6 and 4 species, respectively). In the Caucasus, in Central Asia and the European part of the country, respectively, 13, 8 and 8 species of lianas live. It should be noted that in the European part, in areas adjacent to the Volga, tree vines do not grow.
Liana temperate climate no less beautiful than its tropical relatives. This plant is interesting to use in landscape design for registration of hedges, arbors and scenery of walls. Description of popular species and care tips will be useful to gardeners.
Lianas include all climbing plants that do not have their own vertically growing stem, and cling to supports, rising above the ground up to the sun.
Liana is a many-sided plant, it can be an evergreen perennial, a herbaceous annual or a woody specimen with falling leaves. Creepers are attached to a vertical surface and tree trunks with antennae (grapes), sucker roots (ivy) or simply wrap around a support, clinging to shoots.
Species, varieties and names of plants
There are perennial and annual vines.
Popular annuals include:
- Ipomoea tricolor. Light and airy, quickly gaining green mass, can wrap around any shape, blooms beautifully, looks great.
- Sweet pea. He has loose air flowers, lacy foliage, it is beautiful and fragrant, it can decorate a low fence.
- Vysloplodnik rough. Plant with original tubular flowers and fruits, fast growing.
- Thunbergia winged or Black-eyed Susanna. Bright yellow and orange flowers of this plant with dark centers look very decorative.
Favorites, which can be found more often than others in gardens, are perennial vines. They are usually planted on permanent place at the fence, gazebos or buildings are used for landscaping hedges. Choosing climbing plant, you need to ask how it is attached to the supports, what is its approximate weight. Powerful and heavy creepers are not suitable for weak partitions, and graceful, green ivy can easily destroy the wall of the house, climbing along it under the roof.
The most popular varieties of perennial vines:
- Kirkazon large-leaved. The leaves are light green, large, about 30 cm long, the flowers resemble smoking pipe. The plant is powerful and heavy, grows well in both sun and shade.
- Climbing rose. Plants look incredibly beautiful in any corner of the garden - at the entrance, near the gazebo, against the wall of the house. Exist big choice varieties with different colors flowers and duration of flowering.
- Clematis. These creepers can compete in beauty with roses. There are varieties that bloom all summer or only in spring and autumn. They winter in middle lane with cover. Clematis cannot climb the support as high as climbing roses, they are looser and more airy.
- Ivy. One of the longest vines. It can be used to decorate high building. But if there are cracks and chips in the wall, ivy can destroy brickwork. Ivy flowers are small and inconspicuous, the leaves are thin and graceful, it is they who give the plant a decorative effect.
- Hydrangea climbing or petiolate. One of the creepers that can beautifully decorate any part of the garden. It has a heavy trunk, can climb to great heights, but requires strong support.
- Japanese grape. Plant with large leaves, upper part sheet plate which are dark green, and the lower one is silver. It grows up to 7 meters in length, blooms with inconspicuous flowers, but its black rounded fruits look very beautiful.
Grow vines and in the conditions of apartments. So, for example, indoor creepers scindapsus and monstera have been delighting flower growers with their bright greenery for years.
Features of growing vines
Annual creepers grow rapidly, braiding the support near which they are planted. They please abundant flowering and unpretentiousness. For successful growth and development, they need monthly top dressing and regular watering. These plants do not need formative pruning and shelter for the winter. The only drawback of annuals is the need to re-sow them in the spring and wait for the plants to gain full strength, delighting with the splendor of foliage and flowers.
Perennial vines require more careful care. Many of them are thermophilic, they need to be removed from the support and covered for the winter. It is necessary to find time every year for formative and sanitary pruning of shoots, carefully directing them in the right direction.
But all this work will be incredibly rewarded. beautiful flowering and an abundance of green foliage.
Landing in open ground
Annual cold-resistant vines are grown by direct sowing in the ground in spring, in April or May. The soil at the proposed support is fertilized, dug up and leveled. After sowing, the seeds are moistened and covered with a film. When shoots appear, the film is removed, they begin to fertilize, weed and loosen the soil.
Most perennial heat-loving vines are grown through seedlings.
To do this, the seeds are sown in pots and placed in a room where the air temperature is 20 ° C. In the middle or end of May, the grown seedlings are transplanted into open ground to a permanent place near the support.
How to care for liana
It all depends on what kind of liana you planted on the site. Features of cultivation are determined by the type of plant and have significant differences.
These tips will help you care for the described perennial vines:
- Hydrangea climbing grows best in partial shade. Any soil with a neutral or slightly acidic composition is suitable for cultivation. The plant blooms wonderfully. It does not endure cold weather, therefore for the winter it must be removed from its supports and covered.
- Common ivy is undemanding to lighting. If the soil is fertile, it will show all its beauty. This plant is not afraid of polluted city air and pruning, growing vines will not cause much trouble.
- Japanese grapes in young age develops slowly, it needs to be fed. Every year the growth rate is increasing. Japanese grapes are undemanding to soils, tolerate shearing well, and need regular watering.
- Clematis love fertile and drained soil with neutral acidity. They need timely watering and regular fertilizing for flowering plants. For the winter, clematis are removed from the support and covered; they do not like frost.
- Kirkazon large-leaved needs frequent watering. Fertilize it with complex preparations or organic matter 2 times per season. The rest of the care comes down to removing weeds, mulching the soil, forming and sanitary pruning.
- Climbing rose loves frequent watering especially during flowering. At least 10 liters of water are poured onto one bush. The soil is loosened and mulched the next day. Roses are demanding on top dressing, they are fertilized with complex preparations, for example, Agricol-Rose, and organic matter - mullein, wood ash. The stems of the plant must be cut from the first year of cultivation, stimulating the formation of side shoots. autumn rose bushes removed from the support and covered.
Protection against diseases and pests
Annual and perennial vines need protection from pests, just like other plants in your garden. Noticing the suspicious activity of insects on the leaves, the vines are watered systemic insecticides. Contact preparations are not as effective, they are quickly washed off by rain.
When signs of late blight or other fungal disease apply fungicides. Processing is carried out repeatedly until the complete recovery of the plants.
Liana in landscape design
Lianas in the garden can serve as a decorative screen, protecting from prying eyes what you would like to hide. They create coziness and privacy in the garden. long run and beautiful flowers hide irregularities that hurt the eye, smooth out the difference in the height of structures, decorate ugly walls, serve as a hedge.
The fruits of some vines are edible. In the southern regions, in addition to the usual grapes, chocolate akebia liana bears fruit. Her fruits unusual look similar in taste to raspberries. In Japan, its young shoots are eaten in spring. The plant got its unusual name because the creeper flower smells like chocolate.
Which vine to choose, and where to plant it, depends on your preferences. The quality of the support, location and growing conditions will affect how the plant will show its beauty later.