Philadelphus & clematis combination

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I love the look and smell of philadelphus when in flower, but am wondering if it doesn't work hard enough for my small garden. It seems it only flowers for a couple of months and then is deciduous so would be very sad in winter.

So, I had the idea of planting an evergreen, winter flowering clematis to climb up it.

What do people think? Would the branches of the philadelphus cope with that or is it a daft idea?

I'm not a gardening expert but think that it would be a lovely idea and I think that the philadelphus branches should be able to cope as they are generally quite strong.

I love the smell of philadelphus too - we don't haveone in our own garden, but there is a huge one in next doors

which evergreen clematis - armandii??- they can grow massive and IMO would swamp your philadelphus. Which phil is it? Mine is just about 4 feet high though some grow taller.

I was going to get the virginal, which grows to about 2m I think - or was it 3m. I hadn't decided on the clematis, but was going to look for one on the taylors website and limit my search by height - so only get ones that grow to 2m max I suppose. Definitely not armandii, no.

Thank you angelpuss for your opinion, you are lucky having one next door.