Chocolate Vine, Akebia quinata, twisting and spiraling as it climbs.
Here Chocolate Vine, Akebia quinata, twists around itself and the arbor it shares with a climbing rose and the Clematis.
“Twist” is its method of climbing up to the sun, staking out its own bit of real estate on the shared skeleton of the arbor as it also scampers across the body of the rose.
Spiraling ever upwards from Earth to sky, its vines living sculpture; it perfectly expresses the exuberance of our garden in spring.
Clematis vines share the arbor with the rose and Chocolate Vine.
Words and Photos by Woodland Gnome 2014
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