(light cheerful music) >>Today we're in Waynesboro at the Moon Garden.

Our hosts built a beautiful native garden around their property, and they've emphasized not only native plants, but native vines, and this is an oftentimes left out aspect of the native plants you could add in.

They have a beautiful pergola that I'm standing under, with the gorgeous vines draping down.

Right next to me is the native honeysuckle.

It has nice green leaves, gorgeous red tubular flowers.

They start blooming in early spring, go all through summer.

They haven't finished even now, in late fall.

They are beginning to set their cute little red berries that are almost waxy red in color.

These flowers will bring your hummingbirds, so our ruby-throated hummingbird will visit them all summer long, and many birds find the berries very attractive as food in late fall and early winter.

Another vine here on the pergola is Virginia Creeper.

This is an excellent choice of vines.

It goes up and grows very nicely, with bright green leaves all summer, then excellent fall foliage, a very, very gorgeous red, that also shows these beautiful deep purple, almost black berries.

The berries are very attractive to birds, and they will eat them and spread the seeds, so you may find Virginia Creeper coming all on its own.

You can use it on a pergola growing up, like a vine, or you can keep it down on the ground as a ground cover.

It makes an excellent ground cover under trees as well.

The last one that they have here on the pergola is this Passion Vine.

This is a gorgeous Virginia native with a purple flower in summer, that looks tropical.

You wouldn't expect it for a native plant in Virginia.

It is a fairly aggressive grower.

In my garden, I'm planning to put it in a place where I can mow around it so it won't escape and go into other places.

In this garden, it's been trained up and over a hoop where you walk into the garden, giving a very dramatic appearance.

Wonderful, wonderful vine to have in your garden.

And the last one they have are Muscadine Grapes.

These are excellent tasting grapes, they come in a beautiful purple and a copper color, and they're just finishing up their fruiting season now.

So a lovely, lovely tasting grape to add to your garden.

This garden also has lots of other natives, including dogwood trees, native cone flowers, red chokecherry, and a number of other plants that are going to be very attractive as they bloom all season for the homeowners to enjoy, providing native cover and habitat for other wildlife and the pollinators.

It's just a wonderful space to be in.

Hope this gives you some ideas for your own native garden back home, and happy gardening.