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Climber recommendation

K80K80 Posts: 3
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I am new to gardening, and having  bought a pergola that I want to use as a temporary structure from spring to Autumn, I was wonder if anybody could recommend a flowering climber that I can grow in a tub  that would climb up the pergola during summer but would need to be cut back in autumn?

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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Annual climbers that you start from seed each year would work in a big tub. Some examples are ipomoea, thunbergia, sweet peas, cobaea. There are some clematis suitable for containers but they might not be tall enough to reach the top (check out Boulevard clematis for example).
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  • K80K80 Posts: 3
    Thank you, I will check those out 😁
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    edited June 2020
    Any Group 3 clematis would be cut down each year and then regrow over the course of summer. The usual time to cut them down is early spring but I'm sure you could cut them down in early winter instead if you had to. 

    I should think a large tub would be okay for a clematis growing to about 2m, if you regularly watered it. 
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • K80K80 Posts: 3
    Thank you,  thinking of going with clematis so will check them out
  • strelitzia32strelitzia32 Posts: 758
    Passionflower. Grows fast, grows large, likes containers and is pretty much ever green, but very happy to be cut back as well. 
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