twining
Clasping by winding around.
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Twining 'bits'
Using 'body parts' to coil around a support, for example, clematis leaf stems and honeysuckle stems.
Twining snapdragon (Asarina). 6-12 feet. Named for its snapdragon-like 1-inch flowers in pink, blue, white, or red. 'Joan Loraine' is a new royal purple version. Full sun.
Twining A stem winding around a support.
Type Identifies each plant according to various accepted groupings such as shrub, perennial or grass. A pressed herbarium specimen.
Twining stems twist around whatever they touch, be it a pole, branch, wire or chair leg. The stems will wind clockwise or counterclockwise, depending on the species of plant.
Twining vines climb by coiling themselves around their support, and do well on chunkier supports such as lamp posts and porch pillars. They will also weave themselves in and out of open latticework as they head in an upward direction.
The twining foliage emerges with light green lance-shaped leaves and then matures to a glossy, dark green color which produces clusters of white star-shaped flowers in late spring to summer.
A woody twining vine that's fast out of the starting gate, akebia (Akebia quinata) can grow 20 to 40 feet in a single season.
Comments: Twining vines wind through other plants and pull them down or shade them out; flowers are pink or purple with pale throats
Common dayflower
Commelina communis
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The Wire Vine is a twining evergreen vine that is able to climb a support or can be left to ramble across the ground. It has small, round, dark green leaves and produces tiny cream colored flowers in the spring
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(O.Fr. tendrillon, tender sprig) a slender twining or clasping process, modified stem, leaf, or part of a leaf, by which some plants climb.tepal search for term- n.
Dutchman's pipe is a twining vine suitable for shady areas. It produces white to brownish purple, pipe-shaped blooms in spring.
Cross vine has to semi- leaves and produces unusual coppery orange flowers.
Climber A plant that climbs on its own, using twining, gripping pads, tendrils or some other method to attach itself to structures or other plants. Plants that need to be trained to a support are properly called trailing plants, not climbers.
The light climber Twining Snapdragon Asarina barclaiana gives wonderful summer and autumn colour with small clusters of purple flowers. It will make a dense barrier, in its first year with only minimal support.
The elliptical motion of twining plants, called "circumnutation" by botanists, can be clockwise or counterclockwise, depending on the species.
(Ipomoea nil, I. purpurea [I. tricolor], I. alba) The twining stems of morning glories cover an arbor or fence with masses of heart-shaped leaves and beautiful flowers, each of which lasts for one day.
Vigorous enough to scramble up walls, fences, pergolas, and other large structures, akebia is a twining perennial vine that's in a hurry.
Passion flowers are the synthesis of summer's kinetic energy distilled into wending, twining, grasping vines that definitely have a mind of their own.
It is a twining vine, and its first few shoots may need a little help grabbing the trellis. Gently weave them among the trellis branches, and the vine will take it from there.
The removing of leaves, the suckering of water shoots, the twining of shoots and the thinning out of bunches (if you want larger berries) is not often done by home grape growers.
It grows as either a twining vine or aggressive groundcover and works well along fences in a sunny location. The palmate leaves alternate along the stem and are divided into five equal-sized leaflets.
Native Americans grew beans because the input was minimal yet the harvest was plentiful, not to mention that they could grow them among the hills of corn, using the cornstalks as support for the twining vines.
All plants eventually need to be repotted or transplanted, so avoid purchasing pot-bound plants that have roots twining about in the container. Before purchasing any plant, remove the container and examine the roots.
You can use arbors to support twining fruit like grapes.
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Herbs are great in kitchen gardens - they dress up a vegetable bed and deter some insects.
The runner bean is grown for its showy pea-shaped flowers. It is a twining climber, which may need to be trained up a trellis or arbor with netting or string.
Wisteria: Popular twining climbers with long racemes of lilac to purple flowers. There are also white forms.
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Cardinal Climber vines are an easy to grow, climbing annual vine. The twining stems will grow quickly up a trellis or fence, up to a height of 10-15 feet in a season. Some varieties will grow up to 30 feet.
Intertwining itself through the manure spreader's wheels is Clematis macropetala 'Markham's Pink'. Betty Lou is particularly fond of this tableau and points out jokingly that she's cut guests' visits short if they don't agree.
A loosely climbing plant, ie, one that climbs without using tendrils. Instead it uses intertwining long, supple stems that grow through other plants.
Scape
A leafless flower stem arising directly from the soil.
This shows a healthy root system that's ready to grow. If the roots twining around the bottom have done a few "laps" around the pot, and the roots are turning yellowish and brittle, you don't want that plant.
The large pure white night-blooming flowers of the moonflower (Ipomoea alba) are not its only striking feature: left to ripen and harden, the fig-shaped seed capsules and twining vine decorate a fence and hang over the bare branches of a small peach ...
pleach (or plash)Pleaching (or Plashing) is the practice of bending and inter-twining plants. Pleached trees grow together to form a hedge on stilts.
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