Hyacinth Bean Vine On Fence. Vines for sun or part shade. Hyacinth bean vines are renowned for covering ugly spots or twining up fences or over arbors to provide shade or privacy.
Immature hyacinth bean pods are edible. A couple of plants can easily cover a ten foot section of fence in one season. Select a spot where the vine can climb and establish its trellis or other support right when you plant the seeds.
Vines for sun or part shade.
Just a few plants will cover a trellis fence or arbor. The vines may need some guidance finding the trellis but once there they will twine and wrap easily around and up and maybe back down again. The support should be sturdy enough to support up to 20 feet of vine growth. The large purple tinted leaves of the hyacinth bean vine provide shade as well as beauty as they hang from sturdy burgundy stems that twine and twirl along fences and walls and over arbors and trellises extending up to 17 feet in a single growing season.
