Gardeners are always looking for eye-catching choices for a hanging basket or decorative pot, and, of course, plants with flowers are near the top of the list. Striking foliage, however, can be a ...

Today's topic is sweet potatoes. But hold the marshmallows; these sweet potatoes aren't for the table. For the summer flower garden, however, ornamental sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) make a ...

Mississippi State University's Truck Crops Branch Experiment Station has several sweet potato vines growing in trial gardens. (Photo by MSU Extension Service/Gary Bachman) When it's hot in the summer ...

* What it is: A close relative of the edible sweet potato, these starchy annual vines are grown for their colorful heart-shaped to elongated leaves, which are primarily golden, bronze, dark purple and ...

* What it is: A vining annual that's actually an edible sweet potato (just not very tasty) that's grown as an ornamental, mostly in pots and hanging baskets. This variety has large, heart-shaped ...

Should you be looking for one heck of a vine to use in your window boxes, hanging baskets or even as a head-turning ground cover, you have got to give the sweet potato vine a shot, that is if you ...

Ornamental sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas), grown primarily for its purple, chartreuse, or variegated foliage, is a true sweet potato. As such, the tubers it forms are edible. Popular varieties like ...

Phyllis Lawton Cosentino's Mid City home is surrounded by a lush cottage-style garden. Before the recent freezes, sweet potato vines tumbled to the sidewalk in a dark purple and chartreuse waterfall.