Shade loving/damp ground loving! evergreen climber

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Please can anyone can anyone recommend a fast growing (preferably) not too invasive, (as don’t want to create a nuisance) evergreen climber that loves shade and dampness...

Thanks in advance

I had a Virginia Creeper growing up the back of my house-north facing. It looked spectacular when it went red. It grew really, really quickly-I was hacking it back weekly at one point.

fast growing normally means it will become invasive. you don't get one without the other.

ivy will grow anywhere - small leaf variety should be less invasive.

i've got winter jasmine growing in shade and a Garrya Elliptica that seems to be doing OK with part-sun.

Whoops! Just realised that you asked for evergreen-Virginia Creeper isn’t! Ivy and climbing hydrangea both do well in the shade.

@parietal is right though; fast growing normally means invasive. My Virginia creeper was truly beautiful in the autumn but I wasn’t sad when we eventually got rid.

Thanks for the advice - that’s a shame, I don’t really have time to tend to it that much, I wouldn’t want it to get out of control.
Honeysuckle? is that even evergreen we don’t get much light so was hoping for something to brighten the area up.

Evergreen clematis Armandii- if you Google it you can see it has lovely flowers. I’ve put it on a dark, damp section of wall, which is in almost permanent shade and it has still grown very quickly. You might need to put a couple of wires up for it to cling on to.

That looks pretty bluebutterfly36 thank you

we have an evergreen clematis Armandii - it has grown 8m up the neighbours trees! So do be careful with it.

there is an evergreen honeysuckle. not sure how well it copes with shade.

I definitely would not want it climbing over to my neighbour. Though his garden is so overgrown doubt he would notice!

Watching with interest, I was about to start a thread on the same topic! I have a 6 ft fence that needs covering but live near a floodplain so very high water table. Trying to find a climber that won't take over my (small) garden but also doesn't mind permanent wet feet. Best bet so far seems to be climbing hydrangea but that can scale a house so think it would make quick work of my fence!