Question
what the best perennial vine for containers on my deck my jasmine didn't over winter.good color and long bloom length
would be great.they are in 80% full sun in north jersey
thank you  

Answer
Container plants really don't do well if you leave them outside all winter in our Northern climes, Ryan.

That's the hard truth.  You have to lug this stuff into the basement or the garage if you're going to do it right.

It's not your Jasmine's fault.

Now, what Jasmine would you have been growing, sir?

Because lots of Jasmine just isn't tough enough to make it through an Eastern Northern winter.

It has to be a Container?  Clematis paniculata is way too massive for a pot.  But if you have the real estate, it will spread all over the place in a single season and bloom in the fall with dazzling, fragrant white wispy flowers that act like they've grown there since way before you were born.

Nice.

But not for a pot.  And not in full sun.

Full sun on a deck is a great thing to have.  The usual Clematis will give you color much of the Summer.  See the Clematis selection at Bluestone Perennials for photos of some of your choices.

Honeysuckle doesn't need sun but if you have that it will bloom even better -- and is perfect because it is incredibly fragrant, albeit for a short time of the year.

There are lots of others, but you would have to bring them indoors and every 2 weeks you'd have to douse some water on them.  Anything to stop you from doing that?

Tender list includes Passiflora (Passionflowers - a long beautiful list of colors there); the highly fragrant Trachelospermum jasminoides and Allamanda 'Williamsii'; several kinds of the exotic Aristolochia (see http://www.logees.com/prodinfo.asp?number=R1066-2 at Logees for a photo of one); Thunbergia (http://www.logees.com/prodinfo.asp?number=R1592-2); and the fast-growing scarlet-flowered Stictocardia maculosoi.

Even if you just bring these in and use them as end tables with a top on them that you remove periodically to dampen -- you would still overwinter.

Jasmine would be at the top of my short list, although several Jasmines require some high maintenance specs like temperature and daylength to set flowers.

Any thoughts?