Help with climbers - what do I plant?

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I have a long shed, SE facing, that gets sun for most of the day. It is breezeblock (bottom half) and corrugated iron. Approx 10m long and 2.5 m high. I'd like it to be flowery! What do I plant? We are in the Midlands in a frost pocket and it gets windy - but against the wall should be more sheltered. For starters I was thinking:

• Lady Bank's rose
• A later flowering clematis?
• Can I grow some fruit there
• Would a chocolate vine cope?

I love scent, flowers and autumn colour and would love to hear your ideas!

Chocolate vine is only semi hardy so may die if you get a hard frost. But if you wrap it it could do ok. I’ve had a few semi hardy climbers die on me (sheltered sunny wall in London, but in a pot admittedly) so am wary.

Roses are tougher, but not evergreen. Did you want evergreen? If so then look at Jasmine or trachelospermum jasminoids.

Clematis dies back completely in the winter so I would probably grow one as well as something else - it can climb up through a rose or other climber

Climbing hydrangea is very tough, can be evergreen and won’t need support, can go a bit mad though, don't use if the wall may be weak or crumbly in places.

You could try training a fruit tree yes. Fan trained apple or pear could be lovely. That’s a relatively long term project however.

I've just bought a winter clematis for my garden which flowers, well, in winter. Winter beauty I think it was called.

You need an evergreen honeysuckle for year round coverage. I’ve got one that has grown really fast and is very resilient on an east wall. Then you can plant some roses for more showy flowers, something like iceberg or new dawn should be reliable. Clematis can be good, but they need quite a bit of feeding and can be hit and miss, also die back completely. Agree about climbing hydrangea, they also smell lovely.

Thanks all! I am a bit wary of clematis too, but love the idea of a winter flowing one. I had thought of climbing hydrangeas, but concluded that the spot was too sunny for them to thrive. Chocolate vine - will strike it off - I know I am juggling too much to remember to cosset anything that gets upset at a hard frost.

Don’t strike off the chocolate vine I live near ish to you and mine is brilliant. Amazing growth in just a few years - i don’t do anything to it either. A very impressive plant for the money, I grow clematis through mine too for extra colour.

I'm in a frost pocket too, and I've got a Madam Alfred Carriere rose on an east facing wall. It took a couple of years to get going, but its currently looking gorgeous. Its repeat flowering, the flowers are scented, and and its semi evergreen too. It grows quite large, so often not recommended, but it'd be perfect for sprawling to cover a 10 meter fence! The other thing I'd be inclined to do if I was in your shoes would be to train in an Espalier apple tree- I love the scent of apple blossom, and then its so satisfying watching the apples ripen over the summer. You then get the lovely autumn colours as well before the leaves fall.

Winter Beauty Clematis.

Simply stunning. Evergreen with the most beautiful flowers from November to February.

Russian vine will hide it in no time!

I have a winter flowering honeysuckle which is green throughout the summer and then in the winter months although it loses its leaves, it is covered in flowers which the bees love. It is approx 6ft tall and a self supporting shrub and I keep it tidy due to where it is.
My dd bought me an evergreen honeysuckle last year which is just taking off. It needs a frame or wires to tie to but I think that would cover the area you mentioned very well

If you’re not set on evergreen, you could train a solanum. We had a beautiful white one arching over our front porch for years until DH decided to ‘prune’ it and it never recovered. I loved my purple one too, and they do train well. Mine flowers into Autumn (I’m in the south east).

Passion flower (passiflora caerulea) is one that thrives for me to cover the ugly garage wall. It's in a big pot. It stays green all year round and although it goes dormant in Winter it comes back with a bang! The flowers are lovely and the fruit is very colourful, but inedible.

Just a suggestion. I have clematis and jasmine elsewhere in the garden, but wanted something that would stay green all year round.