Annuals Vs. Perennials - What Flowering Vine Should You Choose?
Michalis 'BIG Mike' Kotzakolios


Defined Tag: Flowering Vine.

Gardening may sound like a lot of fun. But often, as with any passion, it's a constant crusade to achieve the best possible results for the objects of your fervor. A great example would be this great dilemma faced by gardeners all over the world: should they choose an annual or a perennial flowering vine?

To anyone who has no interests with gardening, the choice may seem trivial. But for everyone who has experienced the many joys that gardening can bring to their lives, the question is as essential as the necessity for a yearlong gardening plan.

Annuals, of course, pertain to plants that bear flowers only once every year. Why? Because they live for just a year, give or take a few months. Perennials on the other hand continue for many years, and their flowering cycles are just as persistent.

Naturally, the obvious choice is to choose perennials, right?

That's what a non-gardening folk would say.

The problem is, the flowers produced by annuals are decidedly more beautiful and more colorful than the flowers produced by perennials. Perhaps it's because of the shorter lifespan of perennials. In one single blaze of glory, they unleash all the glamour they are capable of unleashing before they end their existence.

Hence the dilemma. Beauty or perpetuity? Color or continuity? Annuals or perennials?

When it comes to a choice of flowering vine, the gravity of the dilemma becomes a little easier. The choice would be dependent on the use of the vine. A flowering vine, you see, serves more than an ornamental function. It could help prevent erosion, for example. Or it could attract hummingbirds and other pleasant creatures. Or it could substitute for paint on façades of edifices or fences. The question is not a matter of which produces the best flowers. It's a question of which vine serves the better function.

Perennials are perfect investments for design purposes that are less dynamic. Covering up the surface of a wall, for example, or decorating columns with a touch of brown and green, are purposes that make perennials a better choice.

Annuals are perfect for minimizing the need for maintenance. Since annuals have a shorter lifespan, trimming and transplanting them is not necessary. Just wait out a year and this flowering vine would wither by itself.

So before engaging the dilemma that most vine lovers have to face, ask yourself this question: why do you need the vine? The answer to such query would dictate the choice of vine best suited for your goals.

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