Climber to hide ugly rickety south facing fence

[ArtichokeAardvark]

Oh wise and seasoned gardeners of mumsnet, I need your recommendations. The only really sunny part of my garden is along a very rickety south facing fence. It's ugly and being pulled over by my neighbour's vine on the other side, but it's her fence so not a lot I can do except try to hide it. My plan is to drive stakes into the ground about half a foot out from the fence (as I'm not convinced the fence itself is going to last much longer) and then thread wires between them.

What would you grow along the wires? I have small boys so it needs to be resilient enough to stand up to an occasional hit from a football
Ideally something evergreen as the whole point is to hide the fence. And lastly, preferably nothing toxic as my toddler has been known to pick and eat berries off things in the garden (bad scare last month after he munched a handful of hypericum berries...) - I'm pretty good about removing berries as I spot them but would be nice not to have to!

Any thoughts gratefully received!

Meant to add also - I'm planning to under plant with some hardy geraniums etc so it doesn't matter if the climber has ugly bare stems at the base.

I would go for a honeysuckle, you can get evergreen ones. They can take quite a bit of rough treatment. They LOVE sun too. They're not tasty but not poisonous.

Did you know that hypericum\St John's wort is a good remedy for depression?! (it got me through the menop.) It wouldn't harm your toddler but best not to eat too many!!

Personally, I'd plant a thornless loganberry. But that's not evergreen.

One of the evergreen honeysuckles is Lonicera henryii - tasteful peach coloured flowers followed by dark coloured berries. But it's stunningly vigorous so don't let it get out of reach. And most honeysuckle berries are poisonous. (There is an edible one, but that's a bush one).

Clematis armandii is an evergreen clematis flowering in early spring, but can be a bit tender. It doesn't have berries.

I like the sound of the clematis... when you say tender, do you mean not frost hardy or that a football would do lasting damage?

I love honeysuckle too but have a couple in the garden already

Depends on the clematis, montana is vigorous (maybe too much so!) Some of the others are prettier, not evergreen though (maybe there are some I don't know) but more delicate.

I have 8 honeysuckles! I love them (i love the perfume too). On a warm summer evening they're heaven!

Honeysuckle are very robust. Star jasmine might suit you also.