Curb Appeal: New build (SE facing)

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Still waiting for house to complete and am back in planning mode.

This is the front of my little new build. I’m tempted with white evergreen climbers around the doorway and bay/olive trees.

What would you plant from scratch? I’d like to keep some interest year round so wisteria/Montana isn’t for me and preferably white flowers.

Thanks lovelies 💐

For an evergreen climber with white flowers I'd probably go for an evergreen jasmine. However, depending on where you are in the country and how sheltered the house is you might find a climbing rose keeps its leaves most of the year- my climbing roses still have their leaves at the moment, as do my neighbours. In fact, a scented white rose and an evergreen jasmine growing together would be lovely- and if you combine the two then the evergreen leaves of the jasmine will cover the bare stems of the rose if its a particularly cold winter.
My understanding is that no rose is truly evergreen (in the U.K. anyway) but if you google 'evergreen rose' you'll get lots of options that are described as 'almost' or 'virtually' evergreen, such as this one: www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/rosa-flicit-et-perptue/classid.2000044749/. Enjoy your new home and your new garden!

Looking at the home I would go for some tall planters of tall grasses of various colours at the front on one side and then some big planters of ferns on the other.

Felicuté et perpetué is an old rose, and since it doesn’t mention it’s repeat flowering you can probably assume it isn’t. If you look among the newer roses you will probably find one that continues flowering all summer rather than just the big flush in June

Thanks, I looked up the rose but only flowers once whereas an iceberg climber flowers repeatedly. Do you have to keep on top of the deadheading though?

I think you mean Kerb not Curb.

You need to deadhead roses to keep getting flowers and you'll need to water potted plants regularly. You could have an evergreen clematis

Hi OP, as @WhoppingBigBackside mentions (great name BTW!) you need to deadhead roses if you want flowers over a prolonged period. The rose will flower happily without deadheading, but deadheading means you have flowers for longer. The alternative is to go for something that just flowers the once (so a rambling rose rather than a climber). They have a shorter period of flowers but they're pretty spectacular when they're in bloom. I've never bothered deadheading evergreen jasmine, I just cut it back once its finished flowering if its started getting too big for its allocated spot. I know you're not a fan of Clematis Montana, but how about a Clematis Armandii ? Its evergreen, and there's a lovely variety called Apple Blossom which is absolutely beautiful when its in flower. I've got one of these combined with another climber in my garden- although its gorgeous when its in bloom it flowers relatively early in the season and I like to have flowers later on in the summer as well.

There are also some climbing evergreen hydrangeas which might work well too.

My climbing icebergs are in sheltered south facing spot and keep their leaves all year. I’ve found they only repeat flower if I cut them back in July, after the main flush has passed. Dead heading didn’t really work with them for some reason.

They are gorgeous when in full bloom though. If they were scented they would be the perfect rose.