Ipomoea Plants

Ipomoea Plants comprises one of the largest genus in the flowering plant family, Convolvulaceae and has over 500 species. Including Morning Glories with their star-sapphire type flowers, this genus also includes the Sweet Potato vine which is grown both for remarkably colored foliage. Ipomoea is most often utilized as a “spiller” in hanging pots or as a ground cover.


Ipomoea, pronounced ip-oh-MEE-uh, prefers soil where it will not dry out completely. In containers, once the top is dry to about 1-inch, water it and check regularly during really hot weather. Mixing Terra-Sorb® with your soil will increase its ability to retain water, in the garden or in the ground. Sweet Potato vines are also heavy feeders, so will benefit greatly from regular feeding with Espoma Plant-tone®.


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Show product details for Ace of Spades Ipomoea Plant

Ace of Spades Ipomoea Plant

Price $3.00

The 'Ace of Spades' Ipomoea Plant has vigorous trailing foliage with dark purple-black, spade-shaped leaves. It has a high heat tolerance but will get darker in color when in partial shade. The Ace of Spades Sweet Potato Vine makes a great annual groundcover. 3" Pot Size.

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Blackie Ipomoea Plant

Price $3.00

The 'Blackie' Ipomoea Plant has vigorous trailing foliage with dark burgundy–black maple-shaped leaves. Young plants are light green, maturing into rich, dark accent plants. Use Blackie Sweet Potato Vines to add texture to hanging baskets, containers and window boxes. 3" Pot Size.

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Bronze Ipomea Plant

Price $3.00

The 'Bronze' Ipomea Plant is truly in a class all by itself. This phenomenal ornamental will highlight any landscape with its coppery-bronze coloration and deep burgundy veining. This one is showy, superbly immune to the heat and is a vigorous sun lover. It also thrives in full shade, though growth will be slower. The Bronze Sweet Potato Vine has an amazing trailing habit in beds and as a "naturalizer", but cascades beautifully from containers and hanging baskets. 3" Pot Size.

Show product details for Illusion Emerald Lace Ipomoea Plant

Illusion Emerald Lace Ipomoea Plant

Price $5.50

Our 'Illusion™ Emerald Lace' Ipomoea Plant bears extraordinarily unusually-shaped leaves ranging in color from bright greenish-yellow to a more subtle lime green, depending upon the amount of heat and light they are subjected to. The deeply dissected leaves grow in a compact mounding habit that makes the whole look rather frilly and lacy, hence the name. Gardeners have found Illusion Emerald sweet potato vine to be a wonderful backdrop for a wide variety of flowering annuals and perennials. Have a moist spot where most plants won’t grow? Emerald Lace will love it! Heat and humidity will encourage them to spread up to 36” a week! 3” Pot Size.

Show product details for Illusion Garnet Lace Ipomoea Plant

Illusion Garnet Lace Ipomoea Plant

Price $5.50

Our 'Illusion™ Garnet Lace' Ipomoea Plant is so much more than just "garnet". The leaves on this sweet potato vine emerge fresh spring green and then continue to change color, becoming russet before eventually changing to the garnet color that gave it its name. The resulting colorful collage takes on a lacy appearance as these deeply lobed leaves intertwine and mound, cascading over the sides of your containers or trailing to form a multicolored groundcover. 3” Pot Size.

Show product details for Illusion Midnight Lace Ipomoea Plant

Illusion Midnight Lace Ipomoea Plant

Price $5.50

Our 'Illusion™ Midnight Lace' Ipomoea Plant would make a simply stunning backdrop to white annuals or perennials, in containers or in the ground. Bearing extremely dissected dark bluish-purple leaves with vivid violet midribs, the foliage first emerges a soft bluish-green, resulting in a bicolored lacy collage as it cascades from its pot or trails along the ground in your perennial or annual garden bed. 3” Pot Size.

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Marguerite Ipomoea Plant

Price $3.00

The 'Marguerite' Ipomoea Plant has brilliant lime-green to bright yellow-green foliage—a great contrast plant for any garden. They will show off their the best color in partially shaded areas and can be prone to sunburn if exposed to lengthy afternoon sunlight. 3" Pot Size.

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Tricolor Ipomoea Plant

Price $3.00

The 'Tricolor' Ipomoea Plant has striking green, light pink and white fan-shaped foliage that attracts attention in garden borders or patio containers. They're small in size but big in impact! 3" Pot Size.

Show product details for Sweet Caroline Bewitched Ipomoea Plant

Sweet Caroline Bewitched Ipomoea Plant

Price $5.50

Our 'Sweet Caroline™ Bewitched' Ipomoea Plant is brand new for 2012 and has beautifully textured, elegantly scalloped foliage with a superb combination of soft points and graceful curves. The color is also unusual, being glossy dark purple with just a hint of dark green undertones and which, when backlit, appears startlingly luminescent, showing off the delicate venation that contributes to the wonderful texture. Bewitched is an idyllic name for this sweet potato vine! 3” Pot Size.

Show product details for Sweet Caroline Green Yellow Ipomoea Plant

Sweet Caroline Green Yellow Ipomoea Plant

Price $5.50

The 'Sweet Caroline™ Green Yellow' Ipomoea Plant is showy, unusual and is sure to be a conversation piece, whether spilling from your favorite hanging pots or spreading throughout your landscape or flower gardens. The foliage is deeply cut, contributing to the overall lacy appearance and is heavily mottled with lighter hues over bluish-green to yellow-green. A stunning backdrop for dark, richly hued blossoms, Sweet Caroline Green Yellow sweet potato vine is just as interesting planted alone. This ipomoea out-cascades most other varieties! 3” Pot Size.

Show product details for Sweet Caroline Raven Ipomoea Plant

Sweet Caroline Raven Ipomoea Plant

Price $5.50

Our 'Sweet Caroline™ Raven' Ipomoea Plant has leaves with only 3-lobes, but uses that design to perfection! Their gently curvaceous nature with soft, rounded tips makes for an elegant presentation, especially when combined with the purply-black coloration and heavy venation. The stems are a lighter violet, adding very pretty contrast. Try pairing this wonderful purple sweet potato vine with white or yellow annuals. 3” Pot Size.

Show product details for Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Light Green Ipomoea Plant

Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Light Green Ipomoea Plant

Price $5.50

Our 'Sweet Caroline™ Sweetheart Light Green' Ipomoea Plant is an incredibly vigorous grower that makes an exceptional ground cover and should only be grown with other plants that are just as vigorous. The heart-shaped leaves are a muted chartreuse color with a very thin, sometimes almost invisible, purple gilding. Heavy venation provides wonderful texture on this sweet potato vine. 3” Pot Size.

Show product details for Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Red Ipomoea Plant

Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Red Ipomoea Plant

Price $5.50

Our 'Sweet Caroline™ Sweetheart Red' Ipomoea Plant is so-named for its wonderful heart-shaped leaves that first emerge brilliant chartreuse, going through color changes as they mature, sometimes appearing light green, medium green, greenish-blue, bluish purple and finally a soft medium burgundy color. Even the midribs and veins go through a color change! What a delightful, multihued collage for a naturalized ground cover or for a mixed planting in a large container. This sweet potato vine is a keeper! 3” Pot Size. Sold Out for 2012.