Ten best climbing plants. Climbers for walls or trellis or pergolas

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Ten Best Climbing Plants - Climbers.

Our best climbing plants. There are many climbing plants suitable for any garden situation. We suggest ten of the best climbing plants - climbers. The list will be changed from time to time - such is gardening. If you feel that a particular climbing plant should be added to the list, then please email us here, and if we feel that it is a good suggestion, we will add it.

Solanum jasminoides Album - Climbing potato! A great long flowering evergreen wall shrub or climber. As climbing plants go, this one is a superb choice. It flowers through the summer and is easily controlled by pruning. Needs support as it is not self-clinging. One of the best flowering climbers. (Not really a climbing plant - more a floppy shrub that needs support!

Wisteria sinensis - Needs to be kept under control, but what a show-off in mid spring. The Autumn colour is not too bad either. Pruning Wisteria This climbing plant twines around any support, and once established, sends out new shoots up to 2m long in a season! Has to be one of the best climbing plants for a sturdy support.

Hydrangea petiolaris - One of the best climbing plants against a North facing wall. White flowers against bright green foliage, then bright yellow autumn foliage.

Campsis radicans - Self-clinging climber with showy orange/red flowers mid summer. Quite a quick grower when established.

Clematis - incl Clematis armandii (Evergreen clematis) Pure white flowers in February - just what is needed in this normally dismal month. Good screening plant and fairly good rate of growth. Well suited to a shaded wall or fence. A Good climber

Eccremocarpos scaber (Chilean Glory Flower) An annual with dainty foliage and bright tubular gold to red flowers. Whilst it is not the easiest of plants to propagate from seed - it often seeds itself if left alone!

Pyracantha Varieties (Firethorn) Really a shrub, but with training, can be used against a wall, with great cream flower display in may followed by the berries in late summer. Can be in berry for as long as 3 months. The hungry birds are the deciding factor.

Vitis coignetiae. A great climber with huge heart shaped leaves that give spectacular Autumn colour of gold through to deepest orange. Will grow in any situation, but needs support of sturdy trellis or a tree on which to ramble.

Climbing Roses. The variety depends entirely on your favourite colour. Pink Perpetue, Golden Showers, Climbing Iceberg, are a few to consider. If I had to chose one, then it would have to be Graham Thomas: An old English Yellow climbing rose - quite fragrant with large cupped flowers, flowers throughout the summer if dead-headed. A vigorous healthy variety that will reach 8'-10' (2.4 - 3.0m) in a few years.

Parthenocissus quinquefolia - Virginia Creeper. A self clinging climber that can reach 40-50ft (12-15m) in height. Fantastic Autumn colour, and can be grown in a variety of ways.