Evergreen fast growing climber

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  March 2022

  As we said on your other thread - V. creeper isn't evergreen 
  
  Anything 'fast growing' will also need attention. Most climbers take several years to reach maturity though, so they won't cover large areas for quite a while. 

  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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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  March 2022

  Are you sure you’ve killed the original climber … if you’ve left a stump and the roots it may well regrow. Any idea what it was? 

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

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• robairdmacraignil Posts: 782

  March 2022

  Only classed as semi evergreen but holding a good few leaves over winter where I have it planted here and also providing some nice flowers is the potato vine which I think might be an option worth considering.

  
  

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• GardenerSuze Posts: 5,692

  March 2022

  @Gwennie01 Think it may depend on were you live as to whether Potato vine {Solanum laxum] will do well as it is not  completely hardy, beautiful but berries are poisonous. 
  
  As far as I am aware nothing evergreen will cover a fence panel other than ivy and by the time it does get to the top of the panel it is probably broken with the weight. All climbing plants can take 2 to 3 years forming roots before they start to climb.
  
  If there is any sign of grow on the original plant could you post a photo doesn't matter if it is upside down which can happen!
  
  One other suggestion would be Cotoneaster Horizontalis, you will need to put a few wires from post to post . Ideally your plant would be flat in shape. any stems that grow forward will need to be cut off .
  In spring the new leaves emerge, followed by tiny flowers loved by insects. Then good Autumn colour, finally in the winter you have the tracery of the stems.. Yes it is commonly grown but a good backdrop for other larger leaved plants. When the fence panel finally goes the plant can be carefully propped up and panel replaced.

  I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.

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• Gwennie01 Posts: 11

  March 2022

  Thank you 

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• Gwennie01 Posts: 11

  March 2022

  Thank you all. I have no idea what the plant was, as it was already established  when I moved in  20 years ago.
  
  It was a woody creeper plant , not evergreen that had tendrils similar to ivy.
  I will wait to see if the stump bears any new growth.
  Thank you all for your advice.

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• JennyJ Posts: 10,576

  March 2022

  If your original climber doesn't grow back, winter jasmine is nice against a fence. It doesn't self-cling - more of a lax shrub than a climber - so it needs to be tied in, but it makes a splash of colour in the winter and a nice green backdrop in summer.
  

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

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• rachelQrtJHBjb Posts: 819

  March 2022

  My guess is it was Clematis montana. The "stump" that is left is likely to start sprouting in the next month. Best to watch for signs of new growth as letting a plant on established roots regenerate will clothe the fence far more quickly than any new planting. Are there no photos of the garden from the last 20 years? Did it flower in spring?
  
  

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  March 2022

  Ivy would do the job.
  

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• Gwennie01 Posts: 11

  March 2022

  I don’t think it was clematis.. no flowers at all .. green leaves in abundance until winter then just woody stems. 

  Thanks again all for you advice. 

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