Climbing plants for shaded wall ?

pinkpiglit

We have a small walled patio garden and I would like to know if there are any (ideally flowering) climbing plants other than ivy, that I could grow on the wall that doesnt get a lot of sunshine ?

The patio is small, approx 19 feet by 10 feet. The south "wall" is our building (four floors high) which means the wall I want to plant is mostly shaded by the building. I've been told by our neighbour the patio gets sun from early afternoon onwards in mid-summer but I'm unsure whether the sun will actually hit the wall itself.

The previous owners have planted an ivy which I'm not keen on and would like to replace. I have a star jasmine for the east wall which hopefully should do ok as that will be the wall with the most sun.

Badrick

Clematis have always done well for us on a south facing wall which never sees any sun, as it's shaded by a 2 storey building.

RAS

Hydrangea Petiolaris, through which you could also grow a clematis

If the patio was a bit bigger, Rosa Alberic Barbier tolerates some shade and can succeed on north facing walls and growing into trees.

Also get some height from basics like foxgloves?

snowdrop1967

We have New Dawn, a climbing rose on a north facing wall and it is doing really well and produces lovely pale pink flowers.

ukmaggie45

snowdrop1967 wrote: »

We have New Dawn, a climbing rose on a north facing wall and it is doing really well and produces lovely pale pink flowers.

We've got New Dawn in our front garden (SW facing) and one facing roughly west in a fairly shady part of our back garden. We do get flowers on the one in the back, but we get TONS of flowers on the front one. But I reckon it would work well on your shaded wall OP, just wouldn't be quite as floriferous as if in full sun most of the day. If it gets any sun at all it will flower better.

Just a word of warning though, pretty as this rose is (I love it!) it has particularly vicious thorns! :eek:

pinkpiglit

Thank you all for your suggestions - I'm off now to look at photos and hopefully pick one !

I_have_spoken

Honeysuckle, climbing hydrangea, Russian vine.

sobie

I_have_spoken wrote: »

Honeysuckle, climbing hydrangea, Russian vine.

seriously - you are suggesting russian vine for a small patio garden? horible invasive stuff.

sobie

snowdrop1967 wrote: »

We have New Dawn, a climbing rose on a north facing wall and it is doing really well and produces lovely pale pink flowers.

:T

I've got new dawn on a west facing wall, Lovely rose, very healthy (resistant to rust & black spot) and produces lovely hips too.

shegar

sobie wrote: »

seriously - you are suggesting russian vine for a small patio garden? horible invasive stuff.

Not all russian vines (mile a minuet) are fast growing , I have a evergreen one which only grows about 4 foot per year , not like the fast growing ones that grow 4 foot per month.......:eek:.......And it doesnt have to be in full sun.....

sobie

shegar wrote: »

Not all russian vines (mile a minuet) are fast growing , I have a evergreen one which only grows about 4 foot per year , not like the fast growing ones that grow 4 foot per month.......:eek:.......And it doesnt have to be in full sun.....

Careful what you suggest - I may be wrong think the Mile-a-minute you mean is Montana (clematis). And yes, there are 1000's of clematis types, from the mile-a-minute montanas to evergreens like Clematis Armandii. All prefer their feet in shade, and their heads in sun, but will flower in shade. (Comtesse de Bouchard is a particually good group 2 clematis for heavy shade, and one I recommend to my customers). Clematis (To my knowledge) are NEVER refered to as Russian Vine.

There is only One plant that is refered to as Russian Vine its latin name is Fallopia baldschuanica. It is horible invasive plant that is related to knotweed and grows 30ft or more rapidly. It can also be called mile-a-minute but is in no way related to clematis montana. personally I think this is one plant that should be on an EU ban list, its only redeeming feature is it is attractive to bees.

Plants and their comman names do vary so always use Latin names to avoid confusion.