Legend has it that the sweet potato vine sweet-talked its way out of the vegetable garden and into the window boxes of fine Brooklyn brownstones and cozy California cottages. The dark purple blackie ...

What: Solanum crispum “Glasnevin,” or Chilean potato vine, is hardy and blooms abundantly. The plethora of small star-shaped flowers, which are an intense lilac color with yellow centers, begin in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ornamental sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas), grown primarily for its purple, chartreuse, or variegated foliage, is a true sweet ...

What: Solanum crispum “glasnevin,” commonly known as Chilean potato vine or just potato vine. Its long bloom period, from March until late November, makes it an outstanding choice for the garden.

Q: What’s happening to this sweet potato vine? One of our sweet potato tubers developed a bud and I planted it. Any ideas to help the plant? A: Congratulations on starting a sweet potato vine! Over ...

A plant enthusiast has revealed how to grow a stunning climbing vine plant in your house using a sweet potato. Brad Canning from Melbourne shared his simple guide to growing a sweet potato plant with ...

Its lush green leaves with their lacy patterns look almost beautiful as it winds around trees and covers brush like a wall of greenery. But the potato vine isn’t beautiful to state and national park ...

Sweet potatoes aren’t limited to Thanksgiving. In fact, sweet potato vines make great ground covers in the garden. Ground covers, which consists of low-growing plants, can serve as an alternative lawn ...

BOISE, Idaho — We all know that potatoes are a big crop here in Idaho, but have you ever tried growing sweet potatoes? Believe it or not, sweet potatoes aren’t really related to the regular potatoes ...

Q:A vine is taking over my backyard! It has heart-shaped leaves, and I'm finding little things that look like potatoes everywhere. It showed up by itself and is covering my neighbor's fence -- should ...

It's peak time for annuals -- at least it would be in a normal summer. Looking at my dozens (really) of containers, I've decided the one that gets nominated into the Plant of the Week Hall of Fame is ...