climbers for willow garden obelisks

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I've just bought a couple of willow garden obelisks 1.5 metres high. Now I need to plant some climbers but don't know what ones. Any suggestions?

sweet peas, you can buy them at the garden centres now, or late-flowering clematis (that you cut back to the ground every year)

Thanks Purple. Do you plant the sweetpeas and clematis inside the obelisk or on the outside to train up the side?

Put them on the outside! Inside is too dark in most cases.

I have one with a trachylospermum jasminoides growing on it. It is quite dense, and evergreen, and my hope is that in a few years, I will have a green cone! It has lovely-smelling flowers, too.

get over to Aldi, they have loads of climbers in for £1.79 each, including various clematis and a perennial sweet pea (unscented) that would be beautiful on a willow obelisk.

Traviata I've just been to Aldi and bught some plants, so now to get planting!

I got some great climbers in Aldi about 6 weeks ago, I have potted them on and they are thriving . Didn't know they had them in again

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