Wisteria advice - or other climber- garden centre trip today!

[Ekphrasis]

Id like to put a climber around the door of our Victorian terrace, south facing. The door is v tall as has a window above it so it would need to grow high.

paving brick ground though so I’m guessing a v big pot is best. There’s a lovely one locally but I think its roots are going into the ground beneath gravel so I’m not sure how achievable this is?

I’m not that keen on amethyst falls (i think I have one languishing in a pot bought from Sainsburies!) and I think prolific (grafted) is what may work but I’m just not sure if it’s something to commit to or not.

I love the sculpted stems of them and the bronze leaves that some have at this time of year.

Back up ideas are climbing hydrangea (might be too hot for pot south facing?) or honeysuckle. Or passion flower.

Any other ideas or advice? It’s a blank slate!

Dont buy a wisteria unless its in flower. They can take a really huge bumber of years to flower unkess they have been grafted so you could end up wirh all leaves

Take up a slab, it’s not hard. But you’ll have to get vine eyes and training wires put up. I put wisteria prolific on a 3 storey south facing wall, it’s 4 years old, already 9 foot tall and I’m having to buy a proper extending ladder to prune it as it grows. It’s got loads of flower buds this year after only one last year.

i wouldn’t put one at the front of the house unless there’s room to train it properly across the house.

Just had a conversation with Dh about pots; size and cost - he prefers the much cheaper option of taking up a few of the bricks 😆

tbh if I can find the tag, my 4 inch bonsai one would be the cheapest option. But I’ve never seen it flower.

the other one was bought in flower

Try a Clematis Winter Beauty. It climbs well, is evergreen and produces these most beautiful white flowers in the middle of winter all through to spring when everything else is devoid of life.
Clematis like their 'feet' to be shaded so buy a deep pot and keep it out of direct sunlight if you can.