- Special Sections - Public Notices Sometimes, when there is not
enough space for a hedge or a shrub, but a screen is needed,
vines may be the answer. Vines help add privacy, camouflage wire
fences, hide an unsightly wall, or add character to tight
places. They can create a shade buffer from the hot sun on the
side of a building or cover a romantic walkway into a garden
“room.” There are several vines both popular and appropriate for
use in gardens of North Carolina. Vines provide landscape
texture, color, food for birds and climbing screens. They can
climb by twining or by root-like arms or tendrils that seek the
support of wire, string lattice, wall, arbor, fan, post, tree
trunk or various kinds of fencing. The type of vine selected
will determine the kind of support you will need to provide. It
would be advisable to keep in mind the practical maintenance of
the vine’s supporting structure. Painted wooden walls, lattice
or arbors may require the vine to be periodically severely cut
back or even relocated. I