Famous for its refreshing fragrance and beautiful star-like flowers , this plant is great to grow in your garden. As it can not only enhance the beauty of your garden, but you can also use it as an indoor decorative plant to add a calming fervor to your bedrooms.
Also famous as Rangoon Creeper , this plant has beautiful color-changing blooms that can add to the aesthetic appeal of any garden.
These flowers grow in bunches, and the creeper can be trained to climb on any trellis or fence you like. Apart from that, they also have a revitalizing fragrance, which can instantly help in lighting up your mood! Another plant with beautiful blue and fragrant flowers, Bengal Clock Vine, is a native to India.
As it only climbs or twines in clockwise directions hence the name. It can be a good choice for growing in gardens as the evergreen blossoms look amazing when they grow in clusters. The aromatic herb is best for growing as a garden creeper. These plants are low maintenance, easy to grow, and quite hardy, making them a favorite of Indian households! They do not require any special attention but growing them outdoors is a better choice, as they require full sun and well-draining soil.
Also known as Parda bel in Hindi, this plant can create an amazing green curtain-like structure; anywhere they are placed, You can add this amazing kind of creeper curtain to your indoors or outdoors to give it an exotic display. Make sure to prune your plants on time as they get really bushy really fast and start taking nutrition from the other plants in your garden, resulting in slow growth or even death of your garden plants.
Water your creeper plants daily; else, these plants will start shedding flowers due to lack of moisture. Reduce watering during the winter season. Aphids, whiteflies, black mites, and green grasshopper pose a danger to the growth of creeper plants. So use appropriate pesticides to get rid of them in the first place. Provide your plants with proper support whenever you grow them in the vertical direction. It is best to shelter the plant from strong winds.
Heart-shaped leaves with yellow or white speckles are the main characteristics of this evergreen climber vine. It is a low-care, fast-growing plant.
What it needs: Bright, direct sunlight and low humidity do not suit this vine; a shaded or semi-shaded zone of the garden would suit it just right. Regular watering is needed in the summer months and infrequently during winter. Star jasmine Trachelospermum jasminoides The fragrance-laden star jasmine or confederate jasmine is an evergreen climber, but is not a true jasmine. It wears shiny green foliage and white flowers on woody stems.
The five-petalled flowers blossom abundantly during the late spring and summer. True jasmines, almost identical to the star jasmine, are juhi Jasminum auriculatum , Arabian jasmine J. They are twining vines with fragrant little white flowers, commonly grown in India. What it needs: Although star jasmine is a hardy, winter-tolerant plant, it favours medium watering and well-drained soil. It can do well in full to partial sun conditions. Bengal clock vine Thunbergia grandiflora The Bengal clock vine has lovely trumpet-shaped blue flowers borne in long clusters, dense foliage and perennial growth.
This native Indian plant, also known as Bengal trumpet or blue skyflower, has rope-like stems which twine only clockwise, giving it its unusual name. What it needs: The Bengal clock vine is a low-maintenance, evergreen plant. It grows best in moderate conditions — partly sunny, warm, gently moist weather. Sweet potato vine Ipomoea batatas A very distant relative of the potato, the sweet potato vine is, surprisingly, from the blue morning glory family.
It is a vigorously growing, perennial plant species with beautiful dark-green to lime-green leaves and white flowers with purple throats. Its enlarged, sweet, starchy root is the edible sweet potato vegetable, popularly cultivated in parts of south and east India.
The ornamental variety is known as the tuberous morning glory. What it needs: This vegetable-producing vine requires moderate watering all through the year. It enjoys well-drained soil under full to partial sun exposure. Flame vine Pyrostegia venusta The flame vine or golden shower climber is a fast-growing, woody climber that blooms with countless orange-red flowers during winter and spring.
To keep it within bounds, grow it in hanging baskets. Other invasive plants are bugleweed and creeping myrtle. In fact, many creepers are not necessarily desirable plants to grow.
Some are among common lawn weeds , these include:. English ivy Hedera helix is also a widely despised vine due to its invasive nature. Trumpet creeper Campsis radicans is way too aggressive for people who want neat and orderly gardens. Opinions do vary widely, of course. Many people would push back and say that purslane and clover are very desirable plants.
Purslane is edible. But, unlike the other creepers, it is an annual, and not a perennial plant. The general use for a creeping plant is as a ground cover. Those that bloom heavily not only serve practical purposes erosion control, weed suppression, and more in this role but also add great beauty to the landscape. Creeping phlox P. Many gardeners love the look of it cascading down a slope in spring when it is in bloom.
Creeping thyme is one of the shortest flowering creepers. Another is creeping speedwell Veronica Tidal Pool , which bears small blue flowers. Both are often 1 inch tall or less. Such plants are ideal for use around garden stepping stones or in other areas with foot traffic because walking on them occasionally will not damage them.
Because they stay low to the ground, other logical uses for creeping plants are:. Actively scan device characteristics for identification.
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