grape vine varieties
Discovering the best grape vine varieties for your New Zealand garden is both rewarding and inspiring. Whether you’re keen on fresh table grapes, home winemaking, or simply enhancing your backyard with leafy vines, selecting the right grape vine varieties is key. From robust red wine grapes to sweet, juicy seedless cultivars, there’s a grape vine for every purpose, climate, and taste. Read on to explore the diverse range of grape vine varieties available, their uses, and how to grow them successfully in our unique Kiwi conditions.
Grape Himrod
Grape Himrod is a variety of eating grape that produces tasty fruit in summer. The green berries are seedless, sweet and juicy, and have a honey-like flavour. This deciduous vine carries large, mid-green leaves which develop yellow tones in autumn before falling. Grape Himrod is commonly grown for fruit production, planted to attract birds, or trained on a support structure such as a pergola as an attractive feature.
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Cissus rhombifolia (Grape Ivy)
Cissus rhombifolia, commonly known as the Grape Ivy plant, is an evergreen perennial grown for its colourful and trailing foliage. Hanging stems host leaves which emerge bronze and age to a fresh green colour as it typically grows to 15 cm tall and 50 cm wide. Cissus rhombifolia is commonly grown as a potted plant indoors and is well suited to office environments. It can be grown outdoors where conditions favour, and in these circumstances, suits being planted around outdoor living areas, planted to trail over a wall or to spill out over steps, included in tropical gardens, or simply maintained in a container.
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