Blackie Sweet Potato Vine Live Plant | Ipomoea batatas 'Blackie' | Ornamental Trailing Starter Plant

Add dramatic foliage to your landscape with Blackie Sweet Potato Vine, a greenhouse-grown starter live plant prized for its deep purple-black leaves, vigorous trailing growth, and bold ornamental appeal. Ipomoea batatas 'Blackie', commonly known as Blackie Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine, is a fast-growing tender perennial that creates stunning contrast in hanging baskets, patio containers, window boxes, landscape borders, and mixed annual displays. With proper care, it may produce blooms under suitable growing conditions.

Blackie Sweet Potato Vine thrives in full sun to partial shade and prefers fertile, well-draining soil. Its deeply lobed, nearly black foliage provides season-long color and cascades beautifully over containers or spreads as an attractive ground cover. Once established, this heat-tolerant ornamental vine grows quickly, making it ideal for filling garden spaces with rich, dramatic foliage.

You will receive one healthy, greenhouse-grown Ipomoea batatas 'Blackie' starter live plant, carefully packaged for safe arrival.

🌿 What's Included

• 1 Blackie Sweet Potato Vine Starter Live Plant
• Healthy starter live plant
• Greenhouse-grown plant
• Carefully packaged for shipping

✨ Features

• Dramatic deep purple-black foliage
• Fast-growing trailing and spreading habit
• Excellent for hanging baskets, containers, and landscape borders
• May produce blooms under suitable growing conditions
• Attractive deeply lobed leaves
• Outstanding foliage contrast in mixed plantings
• Heat tolerant once established
• Ideal as a seasonal ground cover or spiller plant
• Easy-care ornamental vine
• Greenhouse grown for healthy establishment

🌱 Growing Information

• Botanical Name: Ipomoea batatas 'Blackie'
• Common Name: Blackie Sweet Potato Vine
• Plant Size: Starter live plant
• Light: Full sun to partial shade
• Growing Media: Fertile, well-draining soil enriched with organic matter
• Water: Water regularly to maintain evenly moist soil
• Humidity: Moderate humidity
• USDA Hardiness: Zones 9–11 (grown as an annual in cooler climates)
• Mature Size: Vines typically reach 3–10 feet long with a spread of 24–48 inches, depending on growing conditions

🌼 Perfect For

• Hanging Baskets
• Patio Containers
• Window Boxes
• Landscape Borders
• Mixed Annual Planters
• Ground Covers
• Tropical Gardens
• Gifts for Gardeners