25 Best Flowering Vines To Add Climbing Color to Your Garden

Add the beauty of a star-filled sky by night to your garden by day with this whimsical flowering vine featuring pink and red star-shaped blooms! This fast-growing annual is a great attractor of hummingbirds when it blooms from summer to fall.

If you're looking to add a burst of orangey-red to your garden, you'll want to cross off "cross vine" from your to-grow list! During late spring and summer, this woody vine will envelop the structure it grows on with its deep green leaves and contrasting red, orange, and yellow blooms. Its colorful flowers also attract hummingbirds, and once it ceases blooming, it can be pruned by cutting back its vines by half or more to maintain its size within bounds.

If your bird feeder isn't doing the trick in bringing the fluttering creatures around, grow this vine in your yard to add a bird-shaped burst of color to your garden! The bright yellow flowers on this vine resemble the wings of a canary in flight for a whimsical addition to any trellis, fence, or pergola. Thriving in sunny locations with well-drained soil, the canary creeper is a low-maintenance vine that brings its vivid blooms to your garden from spring to summer.

This popular annual is a fast-grower and can completely take over a container—so make sure it’s large and heavy, or this plant has a tendency to get top-heavy and topple over. The smiley-face flowers come in cream, pink, orangey-yellow, or apricot.

Hundreds of varieties of clematis are available with different bloom times throughout the growing season. The flowers of this perennial come in every form and color, and some types are fragrant. They like to have their roots shaded, so plant this with a low-growing perennial at its base to keep the roots cooler.

These super-fast climbers come in so many different colors and grow easily from seed. Soak the seeds overnight and rub a metal nail file over it to help it germinate faster. These annuals also produce tons of seeds inside the dried flower heads, so pick them off if you don’t want them to self-sow next year.

Hummingbirds adore this perennial vine with its white or red flowers. But look for Lonicera periclymenum, and don’t plant Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica), which is considered invasive and will overrun your garden.

These annuals grow easily from seed and have the most incredible intricate red flowers that hummingbirds adore. They’re actually a prolific heirloom edible bean, so pick the beans to encourage more flowers (and beans!) to grow.

This lovely tropical vine has white, red, or pink blossoms set against glossy foliage. It blooms all summer long non-stop. But in hot climates, give it a little afternoon shade. Read the plant tag before buying because some types are more bushy, not vining. In warm climates, it is considered a perennial but is treated as an annual in the rest of the country.

This is one of the few flowering vines that needs shade. Once mature, it has creamy white flowers all summer long. But its vines are heavy, so you’ll need a sturdy trellis or structure against a building for support. It’s also extremely slow-growing, so don’t get annoyed if it doesn’t look like much the first few years.

Unusual flowers make this eye-catching vine a fun addition to your garden. Keep it in a container and bring indoors as a houseplant in cold climates.

The trumpet-shaped flowers bloom all season, and hummingbirds love to visit! It is a fast grower and should be kept in a pot to contain its spread. Or look for newer hybrids (Campsis x. tagliabuana) which are not considered invasive like the native type (Campsis radicans).

The tiny pinwheel-shaped flowers of this vine are sweetly scented. It looks amazing on a fence or cascading out of planters. It’s perennial in warm parts of the country.

The papery electric pink bracts, or flowers, are eye-catching on a pergola or arbor. It’s an evergreen perennial in warm climates, but it’s typically grown as an annual in containers in cold regions.

This fast-growing tropical vine has adorable nautilus-shell shaped blooms of pink and pale yellow. It grows well from seed and loves the heat, really taking off when summer is in full swing. Its sweet fragrance is reminiscent of hyacinths.

This charming annual loves cool weather, so plant the seeds very early in the spring while the ground is cool. They tend to fade when temperatures rise into the 70s, but their delightful scent is worth their brief show.

Of course, this isn’t really a vine, but a climbing rose belongs in every sunny garden! Give it a sturdy support and gently guide the long canes the direction you want them to grow.

Nasturtium are charming annuals that tumble along the ground or climb with a little guidance from you. Look for the trailing varieties, not the mounding types which are more bush-like, and be sure to soak the seeds overnight to help them germinate more quickly.