I am trying to create a shaded area in my south facing garden and would appreciate your suggestions as to which evergreen climber you think would be best.
Nothing too large - 2 x 2m trellis panels worth would be fine. Should it start to get out of line it must survive a hacking with the shears!
Something easy please I'm a beginner. ;D
Welcome to the forum Mary ;D
I will answer your question tomorrow as I am in sleepy head mode right now.
Hi, mary, nice to meet you ;D
I'll leave you in the very capable hands of star :)
Manics - thank you for your reply. Nice to meet you.
Star - Thanks to you too. Your help would be great as I really don't know what to plant.
Gawds Manics :o, you certainly know how to put the pressure on ;D ;D ;D ;D
Hi Mary....Take a look through this lot, I hope something will shout at you. Its always difficult with those awkward little corners.
http://plants.thompson-morgan.com/list/climbers
http://www.panglobalplants.com/plant_nav/plant_code.php?table=climbers&page=1
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk/climbers/cat1.htm
I like passionflower.
sorry, star, just saved me rattling my brain thinking ;D
oooh, that's a good one, ceres, I'm hopeless at flowers :(
I'm not either! But I've got one and so have neighbours and I love them.
A Clematis Armandii would be good as that is evergreen and nice scented flowers in spring. I have one called Early Sensation which is evergreen too, with interesting leaves, but I am not sure it grows very big - the armandii is a much better grower.
I have 2 honeysuckles on a 6' panel which flower at different times - Lonicera belgica and serotina, they compliment each other well.
We also have a Vitis Cognettiae (Crimson Glory Vine) which we grow over a pergola and provides good shade, wonderful colours in the autumn too.
http://www.gardeningexpress.co.uk/ProductDetails.asp?ProductID=10939
I am sure you will end up with lots of different suggestions...
T.
Thanks everyone. I'm off to google your suggestions.
I am trying to create a woodland effect around a water feature because I love ferns, grasses, hostas and those snake head flowers plus lenten roses......don't know the latin names, must learn a few! ;D
I have a red acer in a pot but it suffers in the sun so hoping, if I get the shade right, we may see the full effect of its autumn colour.
Really appreciate your help. Will let you know how I get on, if that's ok!
Mary
If it's a woodland effect you're after what about a good old ivy - there are some very attractive variegated ones.
Of course you should come back and tell us - and pictures too please!
Thanks ceres will look at those.
Could I grow clematis or something through that? why do I feel that's a silly question ??? ??? ;D
That sounds good, you would have the evergreen woodland effect of the ivy and then a group 3 clematis that you can cut back in the spring and it would regrow and peep though the ivy each summer. Depending on which ivy you go for you can compliment or contrast with the colour of the flowers, you get good value from the space that way as it will always look good. :)