Evergreen climber to grow on fence with passion flower

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The house I'm moving into has a fence covered in beautiful passion flowers. SE facing I think. I presume this will all die off in the Winter so was thinking I could plant an evergreen to grow all over the fence - 4 seven foot panels - and then the passion flowers could mingle amongst it.

The aim is to cover the fence panels to full height to look nice all year round.

Is this a good idea? If so suggestions would be welcomed.

Also, how do I prune the passion flower which grows all over the fence panels?

All guidance much appreciated

There are winter flowering clematis but they need shady roots whereas passionflower likes a very sunny spot.
A winter flowering honeysuckle (Lonicera fragrantissima) might work though.

What about an evergreen star jasmine? Or a climbing rose?

I wanted an evergreen flowering climber for an ugly drain pipe and found ‘Bluebell Creepers’. It’s been a dream, just the usual watering and its basically taken care of its self 🥰

i bought it as a small plant in June, this photo was August, and now its double the height of the photo and filling out nicely.

It also has lovely little bluebell flowers. Its quite dainty, but very pretty and something a bit different.

I didn’t think bluebell creepers were hardy, @hippysunshine ? Although it might just be that I’m too far north.

Evergreen clematis like armandii are good for covering fences as they are vigorous when established.

@HiccupHorrendousHaddock Well I live in Staffordshire on top of a windy, wet and cold hill and it’s doing ok 🤭 it’s not had it’s first Winter yet though so we shall see 🤞

I’m more of a trial and error gardener, if I want something, i’ll always give it a go in my garden and hope for the best.

Sollya heterophylla, now moved to Billardiera heterophylla. It’s a bit tender (originates from W Australia) and you may lose it if you get a frost. It is pretty - a lovely shade of blue, a bit like Plumbago

Also a fan of the creeping bluebell Solya heterophylla, I've got 3, one of which has reached the top of a 3 metre pergola since planted this May. The other two I bought a week later from somewhere else and are still only waist high.

My other two evergreens are Solanum Crispum climbing potato vine, and Campsis x tagliabuana Indian Summer. Both new this year but the potato has also reached the top of the 3m pergola.

Lonicera fragrantissima is a bush rather than a climber, though apparently it can be trained against a wall

Vigorous growth in summer is no indication of winter hardiness

Yes i am aware frost MAY affect it, but thats the idea of my trial and error. I also MAY NOT lose it 🥰

You're not the only one reading this thread! People who see your recommendation also need to know it's not hardy - not everyone takes an experimental approach to plant care.

@MereDintofPandiculation
Firstly, I never said it wasn't hardy.
Secondly, I did say that it had not had it's first winter yet so will see how it does.
Thirdly, I'm not claiming to be an expert. This is somewhere to share a passion and our thoughts and seek advice and chat, I don't think negativity/drama are needed/welcome. The world is a bad enough place without it, so just be kind and respect other peoples opinions.

We've got an evergreen honeysuckle that flowers nicely. It's a bit of a triffid though!

We have a massive passionflower and it's basically evergreen, barely loses a leaf in winter. Is there an evergreen version? I'm not sure! We have a winter Jasmine mixed in with it but it's been completely overpowered by the Passionflower which we lovingly call the triffid, it's so abundant.

Thanks MereDintoofPandiculation I always value your informative posts.

*Firstly, I never said it wasn't hardy. Well, quite. That;s why I gave the warning. If you had said it, I wouldn't have bothered.
I don't think negativity/drama are needed/welcome. Too right! But I'm not the one showing negativity in this exchange, unless you think it's showing negativity to warn people that a plant may not succeed in certain situations.
so just be kind and respect other peoples opinions. I haven't shown any lack of respect for your opinion, nor am I in disagreement with your approach to gardening.

You, on the other hand are being negative towards me, by implication accusing me of displaying negativity and drama. Please stop.

@hippysunshine don't be such a plonker, @MereDintofPandiculation is an incredibly informative poster on these threads and you posted about a plant that for most people in this country won't survive the winter, so she helpfully came along with the facts which you are now claiming is some kind of negative doom-mongering. Rather than saying- 'Oh gosh yes thank you for pointing that out, I'll let people know if mine's lucky enough to survive but I wouldn't want to mislead anyone into buying anything unsuitable.'
It's you being negative about another poster's helpfulness.

My passion flower is evergreen- you may not need anything else!
It's also in a shady corner of the garden- don't get lots of flowers but I love the leaves and it was a quick way to cover a fence.

Edited: apologies, @alpinia has already pointed this out!

Ooh I love honeysuckle, wasn’t aware of an evergreen so may have to look into that 🥰

We have a similar fence and have had great success with clematis armandii and an evergreen honeysuckle. Both v vigorous and easy - just need to keep them within bounds. Also have a pink clematis Montana for spring colour.

Clematis Jingle Bells is gorgeous. Absolutely rampant though.

Like all winter clematis it likes it's 'feet' aka roots and shoots in the shade.

@MereDintofPandiculation I've got the bluebell climber too, for the second time after losing one last winter. My garden is fairly sheltered and most stuff makes it through. That didn't. I've got it in a pot this year to see if the new plants survive in the greenhouse over winter. It's very pretty, but, yes, tender. Good advice from you as ever.

I had an evergreen clematis. Large creamy flowers with scent to die for. Not sure what it was now.

Clematis armandii!

An update on the Bluebell Creeper. It’s still going strong and evergreen and somehow survived all the recent storms, snow, frost and wind 🤭 It doesn’t yet seem to be affected by any of it 🤞