We spent 13 years building an abundant fruit forest, annual veggie beds, perennial medicinal herbs, and a healthy mixed hardwood-coniferous forest and now we’ve sold our property to the next stewards so that we can begin a new homesteading project in Vermont closer to our best friends and their kids.
Don’t worry - we plan to keep this website up and running so that our customers can reference what we’ve written about our plants!
We’ll let you know once we re-start a farm in Vermont!
Akebia Vine
akebia vine
Akebia quinata
Vine
Edible and delicious fruit
Tolerates shade
Fast growing
sign Mar 2016
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Akebia is a twining deciduous woody fruiting vine. Unlike many fruiting vines, it is shade tolerant. Leaves are somewhat evergreen and young leaves may have a purplish hue. Vines can grow 20 to 40 feet horizontally or vertically and can grow along a fence or trellis to provide summer shade. They respond well to pruning. Vines show bright purple blooms in early summer and the sausage shaped fruits ripen in fall. Fruit pods open to reveal edible pulp.
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