CLIMBER FOR SHADE. FOR SHADE
Climber for shade. Vinyl window awnings
Climber For Shade
- social climber: someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior
A climbing plant
a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants
A mountaineer
A person or animal that climbs
mounter: someone who ascends on foot; "a solitary mounter of the staircase"
- Darken or color (an illustration or diagram) with parallel pencil lines or a block of color
- shadow: cast a shadow over
- relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body; "it is much cooler in the shade"; "there's too much shadiness to take good photographs"
- Screen from direct light
- Cover, moderate, or exclude the light of
- represent the effect of shade or shadow on
Parthenocissus quinquefolia
From Wikipedia -
Family - Vitaceae
Genus - Parthenocissus
Binomial name - Parthenocissus quinquefolia
Virginia creeper or Five-leaved Ivy (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) is a woody vine native to eastern and central North America, in southeastern Canada, the eastern and central United States, eastern Mexico, and Guatemala, west as far as Manitoba, South Dakota, Utah and Texas.
It is a prolific climber, reaching heights of 20 to 30 m in the wild. It climbs smooth surfaces using small forked tendrils tipped with small strongly adhesive pads 5 mm in size. The leaves are palmately compound, composed of five leaflets (rarely three leaflets, particularly on younger vines) joined from a central point on the leafstalk, and range from 3 to 20 cm (rarely 30 cm) across. The leaflets have a toothed margin, which makes it easy to distinguish from poison-ivy, which has three leaflets with smooth edges.
The flowers are small and greenish, produced in clusters in late spring, and mature in late summer or early fall into small hard purplish-black berries 5 to 7 mm diameter. These berries contain oxalic acid, which is poisonous to humans and other mammals, and may be fatal if eaten. However, accidental poisoning is uncommon, likely because of the bad taste of the berries. Despite being poisonous to mammals, they provide an important winter food source for birds. Oxalate crystals are also contained in the sap, and can cause irritation and skin rash.
Virginia creeper is grown as an ornamental plant, because of its deep red to burgundy fall foliage. It is frequently seen covering telephone poles or trees. The creeper may kill vegetation it covers by shading its support and thus limiting the supporting plants' ability to photosynthesize.
Virginia creeper can be used as a shading vine for buildings on masonry walls. Because the vine, like its relative Boston ivy, adheres to the surface by disks rather than penetrating roots, it will not harm the masonry but will keep a building cooler by shading the wall surface during the summer, saving money on air conditioning. As with ivy, trying to rip the plant from the wall will damage the surface; but if the plant is first killed, such as by severing the vine from the root, the adhesive pads will eventually deteriorate and release their grip.
Native Americans used the plant as an herbal remedy for diarrhea, difficult urination, swelling, and lockjaw.
Also known as "Engelmann's Ivy" in Canada.
Rose Climber 'Zephirine Drouhin' My Back Yard
We advertised this heavily every year. First few years of offering were a fiasco. Everyone wanted it because it was advertised as suitable for shade. First year the demand was ten fold at least what the supply was. Another year there was a flood in the rose growing fields in Ca. and no crop at all. One disaster after another. I finally got one - Doesn't flourish in my yard - gets blackspot and I don't spray. get a few flowers in spring and again in fall. Noted for having a good heavy fall dispaly of roses.
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