Flowering Climbers for a trellis

MrsStepford

My garden is quite small so there is a lot of trellis to grow up and get more plants in.

I would recommend Star of Toscana jasmjne, Hall's Prolific honeysuckle, clematis, roses and passionflowers.

paddy's_mum

Another vote for Trachelospermum Jasminoides. I have two by the front door, currently in flower and filling the whole house with their gentle perfume.

I find them surprisingly tough. These two survived the winter of 2010 when our area had the lowest temperature in the UK ~ -17 degrees. They tend to turn red if under stress but usually soon recover.

They're not madly expensive nor difficult and even if I had to replace them every 5 years because of frost damage, I'd happily spend out the money!

tootallulah

It is a slow grower but I planted a climbing hydrangea when I moved here and it is now magnificent, evergreen and flowers a lot in the summer, plus it will grow on a north facing wall/trellis.

Flick216

I have a few plants on order - honeysuckle, jasmine etc and a couple of climbing roses :j

I also plan to have some blackberry canes plonked in there - I love blackberries!

Silvertabby

Flick216 wrote: »

I have a few plants on order - honeysuckle, jasmine etc and a couple of climbing roses :j

I also plan to have some blackberry canes plonked in there - I love blackberries!

You'll have to get up before the blackbirds!

peter_the_piper

One thing to remember is that privet is a very hungry plant so before you plant anything give the soil a good working over with manure etc so the new plants will have something to eat and drink.

Flick216

peter_the_piper wrote: »

One thing to remember is that privet is a very hungry plant so before you plant anything give the soil a good working over with manure etc so the new plants will have something to eat and drink.

Thanks for that!

I'm a bit disappointed because the company I ordered my plants from refunded my money because the plants failed quality inspection???

peter_the_piper

Disappointing maybe but better than getting carp plants.