climbing plants

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  June 2020

  I'd echo what @Dovefromabove has said re honeysuckles. You'll need a bit of effort put in, if you go for that. 

  It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
  
  
  
  I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...

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• Parks Posts: 33

  June 2020

  i already have two varieties of honeysuckle 'Graham Thomas' and the winter flowering one .Both are vigorous, I have 'Graham Thomas' growing through my apple tree.

  i wanted a less vigorous one.
  

  
  

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  June 2020 edited June 2020

  Have a look at one called Rhubarb & Custard ... that’s supposed to be less rampant. 

  
  

  https://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/lonicera-periclymenum-rhubarb-and-custard/classid.2000020958/
  

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Parks Posts: 33

  June 2020

  Just had a look at 'Rhurbarb and Custard'. seems just the job
  now comes the job of getting one.
  
  Thanks

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  June 2020

    
  

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• JennyJ Posts: 10,576

  June 2020

  Neither clematis (other than alpina and macropetala types) nor roses do particularly well on the sandy soil here (even with improvement), and the honeysuckle (Halliana) is fine some years but not so good others. Winter jasmine (jasminum nudiflorum) and a golden-leaved jasmine "Fiona Sunrise" do well but the Fiona Sunrise doesn't flower much - it's really one for the foliage.
  

  Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  

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