Best climbing perennial plant to train on an arch?

[JMAngel1]

Total novice at gardening but would love to grow a climber with thick perennial foliage thay also flowers - I like big wbite flowers/blossoms. The arch will be in partial shade - any ideas?,

Have a look at David Austin roses. I'm sure they'd have a climbing rose that would look beautiful.

Clematis Montana, it's a fast growing climber and will cover an archway very quickly. It looks very pretty and ours will flowertwice a year. It does need a bit of training but easy for a beginner to grow.
www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/210221/Clematis-montana-var-grandiflora-(M)/Details

David Austin malvern hills climbing rose. Small cream coloured repeat flowering roses. DH prunes it once a year with a hedge trimmer.

Honeysuckle - go for a mix of evergreen (which has smaller flowers) and deciduous where the flowers smell fab

Jasmine. Easy to look after. Evergreen. Leaves turn from green to red in Autumn.
Beautiful fragrance.

I have just ordered a Jasmine plant. Unfortunately I have had four separate plants get clematis wilt in my garden over the last three years so I have given up with clematis!

I have got a lovely honeysuckle called rhubarb and custard.

The best one I ever had was David Austin rose Gertrude Jekyll. The scent is incredible, it just repeat flowers all summer and is thick and glorious.
I've just moved house and it is going to be the first plant I buy when I can go out and get some garden structures again.

The colour is amazing too such a beautiful strong shade.

jasmine.

@madcatladyforever my favourite rose of all time! Such a vibrant colour.

Mad cat lady, I have GERT in a pot.

How do you prune yours?

Mine was fabulous but is a little scraggy now.

Honeysuckle, clematis or sweet pea.

Well, honeysuckle or jasmine, as my username suggests. Or maybe passiflora?

Honeysuckles are lovely. Some of them have mouthwatering scents in the summer months

Honeysuckles are easy going and smell lovely.

Roses even more so but higher maintenance.

clematis montana - easy to grow, loads of flowers early summer

Clematis Montana is indeed a beast that will cover an arch, no problems, but my main gripe with it is that it looks AMAZING for about two weeks in May and then it's just boring and green the rest of the summer. In winter it's all brown! So I'd go with the rambling rose that flowers all summer long - sounds much better.

Thanks all - this is a whole new world.
Would it be best to buy as a potted plant or seeds? How long would the white cockade rose fkr example take to grow up an arch - are we talking a couple of years?

Wisteria is lovely with the hanging flowers. Planting sweet peas in front works well.

I have a Maid of Kent rose going round the window at the front. Took about 2 years for it to go completely bonkers, highly recommended

Buy a plant in a pot OP (or two - one to go up each side of the arch). Don't grow a rose from seed - it will take ages.

I would definitely go for a clematis as I love them (try cirrhosa if you want early flowers - there's a gorgeous pale green/cream one). Or armandii is great if you want evergreen foliage.

Otherwise, akebia quinata is beautiful and quite easy. It's initially slow growing, but once it gets its feet down it is really pretty. www.rhs.org.uk/plants/747/Akebia-quinata/Details

Eccremocapus scaber is another pretty one. It's hard to germinate but you can buy plug plants or bigger plants quite easily. I bought a plug last year and it was easily over seven feet by the end of summer, and lovely flowers. www.rhs.org.uk/plants/6213/Eccremocarpus-scaber/Details

Obviously sweet peas aren't perennial, but everlasting pea is, and it's another very reliable and easy climber. The only issue is, it can get enormous and a bit unwieldy! www.rhs.org.uk/plants/9853/Lathyrus-latifolius/Details

Don't grow a rose from seed - it will take ages.

More to the point, it won't come true.

If you want to buy roses relatively cheaply, you want what are called bare root roses. They don't look like much, because they are in the dormant stage, but they will do fine and are a lot less pricey than the pretty container-grown flowering roses you will find out front of the garden centre in mid summer.

Btw - roses are relatively slow-growing (unless we're talking very rampant varieties that would soon overtake your arch), so if you were to buy a rose for your archway, you could always plant something else on the opposite side that would be quicker. That way you'd get some initial interest and the rose could gradually take over.

May I suggest Trachelospermum jasminoides (starry jasmine), reliably evergreen, white, highly scented blooms and, as a bonus, fairly dense once established and thus provides valuable nesting habitat for birds.