China Blue Sausage Vine
AKA: China Blue Vine
Holboellia coriacea 'China Blue'
- Plant Type
- Vine
Nursery Tag
Plant height: 6 - 20' flower size: 1/2 to 1" Blooms in early spring, purplish white flowers. Hardy to about 0 degrees
Gardener's Log
07/2020: Planted under sunroom to climb up to trellis wire
UPDATE 2022 – Well this guy has been reeeal slow to start. Sadly in its first summer the main vine was severed by some person or critter (likely a squirrel) and so had to recover from that. Perhaps that set it back, but even this spring after a year of recovery it’s still pretty spindly. I’ve halfway given up on this vine and planted an evergreen clematis on the east side of the sunroom and a vigorous deciduous clematis to the west. It will be a race to see which one wins out!
Looking forward to seeing how this vine does. I’d never heard of holboellia before doing research to find a suitable specimen for underneath the sunroom. It seems to be the right size and is evergreen, and has the lower deck stairs to shade its roots. And it fruits! Hopefully they won’t be a mess.