What are your favourite climbers for growing up a tall trellis?

[Pannacotta]

We are doing up our garden from scratch, and have lots and lots of bare trellis to cover above a wall which gets both morning and evening sun (ie from either side).
So far my list is for honeysuckle, clematis armandii and akebia.

Any other thoughts/recommendations?
Thanks...

Passion flowers - definately!!

How tall is "tall"? How much effort do you want to put into maintaining it? Is there anything in particular you're after or trying to avoid? How closely do you want your climber to stay to your support?

Is it a wall that runs N-S - so one side gets the light in the morning and one side in the evening?

Some of the other clematis groups would cover a large area and give you a lovely display of flowers - C. montana being an obvious one. The early large-flower group can also be fairly substatial (I've got one that's currently about 8ft high and 3ft wide and desperate for more room), and some of the later floweing ones can easily reach 8ft in a season.

There are some gorgeous climbing roses out there.

I love honeysuckle, but I do find it can get a bit bushy and out of control.

You could always be completely different and use runner beans! They'd make it to about 6 ft, have attractive flowers and they'd give you a crop as well .

tangle - loving the idea of the runner beans! May give that a go myself. thanks

We have an evergreen jasmine - retains foliage in winter, smells gorgeous when flowering, grows very quickly. In contrast our honeysuckle has always been poop.

Another vote for evergreen jasmine here - all-year interest.

We also have a golden hop which covers a large area very quickly in summer and I love it BUT ... you'll need to cut down every autumn to ground level and if the leaves and stems leave weals on your hands.

Albertine is a lovely climbing rose.

Wysteria. Love the scent.

Thanks for all the suggestions...
The trellis is above a brick wall up to 3m height and it faces East and West.
Happy to do some maintenance though would prefer to avoid ladders as access to the trellus is tricky.
What is evergreen jasmine? I do have a jsamine but its deciduous and looks a bit of a mess in winter.
And actually I have planted a Golden Hop, forgot to say that!
Will look up Albertine too.
Ta

Re the evergreeh jasmine were you meaning Trachelospermum jasminoides?

Passion flower spreads and grows like billy -o.

Yep that's the one I've got, Pannacotta. My parents have one that's west facing and it's rampant - mine is east facing with shade and so took longer to establish and not so rampant, but is still pretty good. Really recommend!

Thanks.
I have a passion flower elsewhere but it wouldnt go with the planting here, but I will stick a trachelospermum on my list for sure. I had thought they were very slow growing but glad to hear they can get rampant in the sun!

How about Rosa 'Kiftsgate'? Very vigorous (possibly too vigorous??).

How about a fig - or grapes?
(I always vote for edible plants, things have to work hard in my garden!)

Word of warning: Kiftsgate will swamp everything, particularly if it's happy in full sun, where it can get up to 30 feet! Ditto Rambling Rector

Rose Madame Alfred Carriere

Clematis armandii "Appleblossom"

Clematis Etoile Violette

Clematis tangutica

have all done well for me in more than one garden

Think Ramblling roses will bee too much and too heavy.
But a climber is an option, Mme A Carriere is lovely I agree.
Clematis armandii in on my list and will check out the others clematis suggestions thanks.
And yes I'd love a Fig but not sure it woudl get enough sun, too much of it woudl be in shade.
A grape vine might work though, not sure which ones have decent grapes, do you happen to know Kittnen?

I second passion flowers!

Fraid I don't but I can recommend a very good fruit seller who is brilliant at answering questions (and sends a monthly what to do with your fruit plants email once you buy from them) - Blackmoor fruit nursery.

Ramblers only flower once, if going for a climber, Mme Alfred Carriere is lovely but gets huge. Something like New Dawn or Compassion are really easy-growing, disease free, lovely repeat flowering climbers. I also have James Galway that has most gorgeous über-full stunning massive blooms and St.Switchun Climbing - fabulous English roses from David Austin.
It's rather obvious that I love roses, have 34 of them and getting more. Poor DH, he thinks that the garden smells like 'poofs handbag' . But it's just so lovely..... (exits stage left, quietly mumbling about Crocus Rose and Eglentyne and.....)

Rollmops what colours are COmpassion and James Galway?
I agree that Climbers are better, ramblers not great for a trellis anyway as too unwieldy I think.
LOL at poofs handbag!!

Compassion is slightly orange tainted pink, classic shape, massive flowers, great shiny rust tinted dark foliage. Thorny as a devil though
James Galway has most interesting pale pink outer petals and dark pink centers in absolutely packed flowers. Will post a pic of one of them taken last summer. JG is a shortish climber though, St.S is very beautiful as well and gets much bigger than J.G.
Check out David Austin Roses site , climbers section

Sorry, can't seem to find my 'rose file' . How tall and wide do you want your climber to be, any colour preferance, would you like it to be very fragrant or don't mind if it's not?

summer jasmine is lovely and smelly. wisteria is gorgeous but you need a big old trellis for that.

can't go wrong with a clematis montana for speedy pretty coverage

Morning Glory!

I like honeysuckle too, lovely scented summer evening air, but it takes over given a chance and passion flowers are lovely.