I had briefly though of a clematis but tbh in my own garden I’ve had little luck with them. I’ve ‘successfully’ grown Niobe and etoile violet but only a few flowers a year.
I will also have to think about support for these. The fence is very old so free standing trellis into the soil or maybe I could screw some wires into the fence post.
I’ve got The Generous Gardener on a North facing fence and that’s doing well I think. I compare it to photos of other people’s growing in sunnier places and the growth seems very similar. I had plenty of flowers last year and one benefit of shade is that the blooms retained their scent into the evening on hot days, when all the other roses in the garden had faded by midday in the heat.
This is its third year so I’m excited to see how it does.
I had a lovely yellow rose, Leverkausen, in my previous garden. It was on a North facing wall, extremely vigorous, seemed resistant to blackspot etc and flowered continuously. It came from Peter Beales.
So in the end I got Madame Alfred carriere and generous gardener from David Austin and a neighbour gave me a narrow water rose.
The former will go where the pink marks are.
The other two along the slightly sunnier fence.
so all light pink or white roses along the fences which should be nice. I’ll try and grow some colourful clematis with them. I have Ernest markham and aoteartoa.
Have I left enough space for MAC?
I’m going to rig up wires once the fences are painted to support the climbers.
I’m a bit scared of Madame Alfred carriere though... not sure what I was thinking there!
I've just planted Roserie de l'Hay (from DA) on a north facing fence. It's not a climber, but a large shrub and should fill quite a chunk of your fence. I chose the shrub as my fence is lower than yours but has the back of next door's little shed behind it which I wanted to hide. Not yellow though - a rather lovely magenta and should have hips in the autumn.
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I also grow a clematis with it.