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What are your top 10 climbers?

InglezinhoInglezinho Posts: 568
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To get you going, here are mine:
1. Clematis
2. Morning glory (Ipomea)*
3. Red trumpet vine (Campsis radicans)
4. Flame Creeper (Pyrostegia venusta) *
5. Honeysuckle (Lonicera)
6. Climbing roses
7. Hawaiian Sunset Vine (Stichtocardia) *
8. Jew's Slipper (Thunbergia mysorensis)
9. Passion Flower (Passiflora) +
10.Mile-a-minute ( Pandorea ricasoleana)*

* greenhouse only
+ One species - Passiflora coerulea - is hardy outdoors in southern UK
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  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Roses, clematis, honeysuckle, sweet peas ... and that’s it. Tried and tested if not exactly innovative.
    Rutland, England
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Trachleospermum jasminoides
    Roses
    Runner beans
    Sweet peas

    That's all the climbers I have

    Billericay - Essex

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  • PianoplayerPianoplayer Posts: 624
    Trachelospermum for me too. I love climbing roses but they need proper tending - the ones round here all have three or four 8ft bare canes with four black-spotted leaves and one desultory rose at the top! Horrid.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    @Pianoplayer You need advice from @Marlorena on how to improve your climbing roses and a good read of this - https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/popular/roses/climbing 

    My favourite climbers are clematis and then rambling and climbing roses, wisteria nd honeysuckle and, for edibles, blackberries, grapes and kiwi - assuming we can get the latter two we inherited here to produce some decent fruit.

    My last garden could get very cold so I was unable to grow quite a range of clematis - frozen montanas, alpinas, macropetalas and cirrhosas - so I look forward to expanding my range of successful clems in this new, warmer garden.

    I have recently planted a trachelospermum whose perfume is very heady so if that does well it will no doubt become a favourite.   Winter flowering honeysuckle is another new one.

    It's proving to be too hot for sweet peas and I have yet to try ipomea and Spanish flag here.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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  • PianoplayerPianoplayer Posts: 624
    @Obelixx luckily, my brand new climbing rose isn't like this, and I have every intention not to let it! I was being nasty about my neighbours....
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    edited August 2020
    Wisteria, (but for some reason I cannot grow one)
    Climbing roses
    Clematis
    Rambling Roses
    Honeysuckle
    Sweet peas
    English Ivy
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • micearguersmicearguers Posts: 646
    Some of my favourites not in lists above:

    Parthenocissus Tricuspidata (Boston Ivy)
    Hydrangea Petiolaris (climbing hydrangea)
    Schizophragma Integrifolium (Chinese hydrangea vine)

  • sarinkasarinka Posts: 270
    I love the Arthur Bell climbing rose, clematis (esp. Star of India, Mayleen, Freckles, florida sieboldii), English ivy, honeysuckle, passiflora...

    Really want the David Austin climber Generous Gardener, or possibly Gertrude Jekyll, next!

    Also hoping to grow some sweet peas and am hoarding bog roll inserts now for sowing them.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Should note that Ingle is in Brazil, right?
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    edited August 2020
    In no particular order, I have:

    Seven different varieties of ivy Hedera helix, plus the ordinary wild one.
    Boston ivy  Parthenocissus tricuspidata.
    White-flowered summer jasmine Jasminum officinale
    Yellow-flowered winter jasmine Jasminum nudiflorum
    Clematis montana: I forget what variety, dark foliage and small, sweet-smelling pink flowers.
    Wisteria 
    Sweet peas, this year.
    Runner beans, most years.
    Lamentable quantities of bindweed.

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