Longest flowering climber please

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I have a south facing concrete wall (it forms the boundary to the back of the garden, but the wall doesn’t belong to us). There is (from left to right, as you look at the wall from our garden) - garden room covering a third of it, then you see the wall which has a kids slide/swings/playhouse combo, and then a shed, which covers the rest of it.

Growing up from the other side of the wall are huge elders, wisteria etc which overhand the wall. So although it is south facing, there is a lot of shelter and shade.

I am looking for a long-flowering climber, preferably evergreen but I don’t really mind, which I can train so the it grows sideways, as the overhang means that I don’t need it to grow upwards. As it is down the far end of the garden, I’d like to see the flowers from the house quite easily (without my glasses on!) so a prolific flowerer, or large flowers, would be ideal please!

Jasmine might work.

A repeat flowering climbing rose might work. You can search on the David Austen site for repeat flowering and shade tolerating. I have a gardeners delight which is apparently happy on a north east facing wall which only gets morning sunshine until around 11am.

Passion fruit? After the flowers you get the fruit which are also interesting to look at (not particularly palatable to eat though) and it's evergreen.

Or maybe a selection of Clematis? Most are short flowering but I believe there are evergreen varieties and longer flowering types.

Generous gardener I mean - not tomatoes 🤦‍♀️

I am loving Generous Gardener, thank you for the recommendation. I think it could be perfect! Do you think a clematis growing through it would work, or does it need to stand alone?

I have tried so many clematis (in other parts of the garden) and rarely got them right. I bought eight from Taylor’s and five died (I think they didn’t get enough sun) and three barely do anything (I think, again, not enough sun). I love them but I’m not sure whether they love me!

What about a star jasmine? Flowers are small but prolific (mine is smothered in them at the moment) and they grow surprisingly well in part shade. The foliage is evergreen, with older leaves going a russet red colour in cold weather but staying on the plant.

I already have two star jasmine, otherwise I’d seriously consider it. One of them is quite close to the end of the garden, so I’d rather have something different. I love the ones I have though.

Clematis and rose is a classic combo! You can get clematis that tolerate shade though there are many less. Crocus website has a good search function where you can check which will be able to live with those conditions, though I wonder if it is wet enough for them if you've have trouble in the past? I think they like a fair amount of water, and shaded roots of course.

Alternatively honeysuckle can cope with shade, though would not provide the visual impact you want. It might also be too thuggish to pair with a rose.

If anyone is on Instagram, a lady with the name ‘tanya’s country garden’ has Generous Gardener on the front of her house. It looks absolutely amazing!

2nd Clematis and Rose

I am toying with Gertrude Jekyll (as a climber), and maybe a purple clematis (any suggestions as to variety very welcome) going through it.

I am a very novice gardener, as you can probably tell!

Any idea how many of each I should buy please? I have about 15-20 feet wide of wall to cover (obviously not overnight!). Or should I be buying more than one variety of rose and clematis?

DA says generous gardener reaches 4.5m so you would need 2 to fill your space, though if you're happy to wait longer you could buy one, and then after a year or so propagate a second by taking cuttings.

Two it is then!!