Suggestions for climbers for pergola

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I’ve never had climbers so know nothing about them.
I now have a pergola and have a planter for each side but don’t know what would look good climbing over the pergola and would be grateful if people could suggest climbers that are attractive but not ones I will have to hire someone with big ladders to pull out of the house gutter in a couple of years!
Do I go for clematis or honeysuckle? One of each? Are there other things that would look good & that would be beneficial for the bees?
Thanks

I have a lovely climbing rose from David Austin (Malvern Hills I think) and interspersed I have just planted a vine (Strawberry Vine).
The idea is roses all spring and early summer with grapes in the late summer and autumn!

I considered a rose as I’d love an iceberg I saw on a gardening program, I just wast sure if a rose would look odd on a pergola- not delicate enough iyswim but obviously not if you have one happily growing. I will have a look at the rose you named. I briefly thought about vines but DM has a couple and they keep getting out of hand.
Thank you

We've got wisteria in large pots, they've grown so well this year, only got them last year.

Have you a pic of said pergola? Might get some more ideas if people can get an idea of size etc

It’s chucking it down here.
It’s a lean to pergola so attached to the house wall above the patio doors and is around 11ft wide & 8ft deep.
Its like this.

Trumpet vine?
(Extract from Wikipedia)
Campsis radicans, the trumpet vine or trumpet creeper, is a species of flowering plant in the family Bignoniaceae, native to the eastern United States, and naturalized elsewhere. Growing to 10 m, it is a vigorous, deciduous woody vine, notable for its showy trumpet-shaped flowers.

Wisteria is lovely, the ‘vigorous’ description makes me a little nervous!

Ooh trumpet vine is unusual, I will have a look into the details

Climbing Jasmine, that is what I'm getting. The smell in the evening is devine!

I second a star jasmine, especially if this is somewhere you will sit at night. The perfume will be gorgeous. Lovely pergola btw.

My go to would be Trachelospermum jasminoides - I have some in my garden and they are beautiful, evergreen and the flowers smell wonderful.

www.rhs.org.uk/plants/popular/trachelospermum/growing-guide

Great minds @Cakey46!

I have a couple of these. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akebia_quinata

Very easy to grow and grows like a bastard. Really pretty flowers in the spring.

So many choices!
Thanks for all the suggestions, I shall look into them all and see which ones may suit our location.
Thanks all

Looks lovely, it would be solid enough to take something quite sturdy, so you might find a wisteria or climbing rose would suit.

Our honeysuckle is beautiful and smells divine during the early summer. It’s also a favourite of bees too.

Passion flower? It's evergreen as well.

Right, I’ve decided on a honeysuckle. Seemingly the Graham Thomas variety is the closest to our original wild honeysuckle.

I was then trying to decide between a rose & the chocolate vine for the second planter but now off to read about passionflower.

I’m so indecisive!

Sounds like you need more planters.

You could well be right! @ErrolTheDragon

Honeysuckle is charming when flowering but can get a bit scruffy. Lovely in the right place where it can ramble and not be too prominent in its off season, but I wouldn’t grow it on a pergola right by your house.

I have white wisteria and ‘Superfairy’ repeat flowering rambling rose on mine.

I wouldn't go for the honeysuckle either (sorry OP). They do look a bit scruffy when going over and die off in the winter.

Star Jasmine look so lovely pretty much all year round (as they are evergreen) and are tough old things, even though they look and smell so delicate. Ours took a hammering this last winter as it was so very cold - and has come back stronger and better than ever with very little TLC.

Both the jasmine and honeysuckle will need tying in as they are less climbers and more ramblers. As the jasmine is evergreen and thickly leafed, the ties won't be as obvious as the barer stemmed honeysuckle.

Just my 2p worth

Oh no!

Back to the drawing board then maybe I will stick some honeysuckle by the fence instead but thank you both, good to know about it looking scruffy.

Not a huge fan of the smell of Jasmine tbh so I had discounted that.

Try some vine?

Not Russian vive, the true one.