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Mandevilla dresses the arbor in Pedro Raphael’s baby garden.

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This rustic cedar arbor is is athletic abundant for a advancing ‘Buff Beauty.’ “Roses will cull bottomward a chiffon structure,” says Mike Shoup of the Antique Rose Emporium.

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Gourds array the arbor in the kids’ vegetable garden at Longwood Gardens alfresco Philadelphia.

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The simple French parterre abaft the Ross home in West University was advised by Suzanne Longley and appearance roses, larkspur, phlox, lobelia and added pink, white and dejected blooms.

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Chocolate Labs adore the adumbration from an arbor at a abreast Texas-style home in the Heights.

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Chocolate Labs adore the adumbration from an arbor at a abreast Texas-style home in the Heights.

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Bougainvillea makes its way over a aerial arbor with an old abbey pew for seating.

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Landscape artist Mark McKinnon created a 65-foot adit arbor, or pergola, to affix the abode and basin in this Galveston garden. Bougainvillea grows over it.

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Coral honeysuckle scrambles up a rustic continued arbor at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Centermost in Austin.

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Rangoon creeper, jasmine and wisteria ascend a glassy rebar arbor advised by mural artist Mark McKinnon. Low-voltage lighting hangs aerial for a attenuate night-time effect.

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Wisteria and dejected potato backcountry ascend 10-inch ache posts and abundant timbers in a Galveston garden with a accidental terrace fabricated of Black Star gravel.

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‘Climbing Pinkie’ smothers a Victorian-style arbor in Carolyn and Travis Franklin’s LaGrange garden.

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Gardener Pat Hermes advised this pergola.

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12 abundant Houston vines

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Consider a vine's advance habits to actuate what's best for your garden. Unless you accept affluence of room, opt for charming types.

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Vines may be anniversary or perennial, deciduous or evergreen. Twiners blanket their way up with ambagious stems or with tendrils, baby corkscrewing appendages. Clingers authority on with their roots or thorns.

For romance, bulb a repeat-flowering advancing rose; there are abounding varieties from which to choose, and some are absolutely vigorous. For exoticism, try a passionflower, a able-bodied summer bloomer that can become aggressive.

Other options:

• Black-eyed Susan vine(Thunbergia alata):This 8- to 10-foot twiner has yellow, orange or white blooms with a allegory eye. It flowers spring-frost.

• Dejected potato vine,Brazilian nightshade(Solanum seaforthianum).Cascading clusters of lavender-blue 1-inch, star-shaped blooms are followed by red berries that allure birds. It's root-hardy and semi-evergreen in balmy winters; to 15 feet. Attach to support.S. jasminoides‘Alba' is an everblooming white array that alcove 20 feet.

• Butterfly pea vine(Clitoria ternatea).Two-inch aristocratic dejected blooms with yellow-tinted white centers are displayed adjoin adroit foliage abiding in bristles to nine leaflets. Abound as a breakable abiding or anniversary in colder areas.

• Butterfly vine(Mascagnia macroptera).Yellow blooms of this spring-frost, root-hardy aerialist are followed by chartreuse berry pods that about-face tan. It's well-behaved, extensive 12-15 feet. Dejected Mexican butterfly vine(M. lilacina)has clusters of lilac-blue orchidlike flowers.

• Confederateorstar jasmine(Trachelospermum jasminoides):This scrambling beloved sweetens bounce with white blooms.

• Cypress vine(Ipomoea quamoclit):A reseeding twiner, this anniversary has nectar-filled red tubular flowers and fernlike foliage.

• Dutchman's pipe(Aristolochia gigantea): The 8- to 10-inch bittersweet blotchy blooms of this root-hardy breed arise spring-frost. It can abound 30 anxiety continued with dense, heart-shaped leaves. Beloved in balmy winters.

• Mandevilla(Mandevilla x amabilis). The ambrosial blooms of this frost-tender backcountry are blush or white.

• Amethyst hyacinth bean vine(Dolichos lablab):This heat-lover draws absorption with its white and amethyst flowers and amethyst pods from summer into fall. It can ability 30 anxiety easily. Will survive balmy winters.

• Rangoon creeper(Quisqualis indica):The flowers of this 30-foot, able backcountry age from whitish-pink to red for a summer show.

kathy.huber@chron.com

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