Legend has it that the sweet potato vine sweet-talked its way out of the vegetable garden and into the window boxes of fine Brooklyn brownstones and cozy California cottages. The dark purple blackie ...

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 ...

Large-leafed coleus is used as the focal point in a box that also includes pink begonias, needlepoint ivy and dark-purple sweet potato vine. Mariana Greene / Special Contributor Even at the height of ...