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Climber suggestions for south facing garden

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Elizabeth0712 · 02/05/2024 12:17

Calling all keen knowledgeable gardeners!
We’ve gotten these arches in the garden to help give us some privacy from an overlooking neighbour. Looking for a climber to go over them. Not too brutish ideally as don’t have the time to keep cutting back from going over to next door. However can do if needed.
So far I’m thinking Jasmine or wisteria but looking for any other suggestions.

thanks so much x

Climber suggestions for south facing garden
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Dodie66 · 02/05/2024 12:19

Wisteria is slow growing. I would go for clematis. You could plant 2 or 3 different ones so that you have them flowering at different times of the year

Pootles34 · 02/05/2024 12:22

Wisteria will take ages to get established, at which point it will become brutish and need twice yearly haircuts. I also suspect that arch isn't sturdy enough!

Do you need year round privacy? I can't quite envisage how those arches would give privacy - wouldn't something on the fence, with additional trellis, work better?

DrJonesIpresume · 02/05/2024 12:26

Campsis, the trumpet vine?

RogueFemale · 02/05/2024 13:44

Wisteria isn't slow in a sunny garden! I planted one two years ago and it's grown several metres and is currently covered in blossom.

Other suggestions @Elizabeth0712 Passion flower, very quick to grow and bees love the flowers (which continue well into autumn).

Some clematis flower through the summer (but aren't that great for bees).

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