you could fan train a evergreen ceanothus over it - fairly quick growing, blue flowers in spring/summer followed by black berries . Ask at nursery for advice on the best one.
I have a trellis fence that is 12m wide x 1.3m high. Until last autumn it was beautifully covered with ivy and provided a nice private garden. Then my neighbours decided it was invasive and dug the whole lot up. I now have a very bare trellis fence... I need to plant something that will grow quickly, spread rather than go high and it needs to be hardy. I would prefer evergreen if possible and would like flowers in spring/summer. Any ideas?
Hi Tommy 3, I have some climbers in pots that are behaving quite well:
I have a David Austin climbing rose that's in a very large pot using wire to support it growing up the side of the house. I have a lovely scented jasmine and in another pot a bluebell creeper/ sollya heterophylla and they're both evergreen covering obelisks. The creeper can just be as ground cover if you wished. It has lovely bell shaped flowers and small leaves. I also have a honeysuckle in a pot but it's important to make sure it doesn't dry out.
Hi Hethie, Was it their ivy?! Would you like to try another ivy and another plant growing together? Clematis Montana is lovely, with an abundance of flowers and is fast growing (and growing with the ivy it wouldn't be so noticeable that it's not evergreen?). Solanum Crispum is fast growing and for the most part evergreen (I've heard if it's a particularly bad winter it suffers somewhat), it is fast grpwing and has an abundance of tiny purple flowers with yellow centres for the majority of the summer. Mine has already started to flower and it only really stopped flowering around late September time (I'm in the Midlands). The Jasmine I have is evergreen with beautifully fragrant white star shaped flowers (sorry I can't remember the type!), and is evergreen.
Confederate or Star Jasmine is evergreen.. or Clematis Montana's as stated are vigorous but not evergreen. I've just planted a Montana next to two ivy's to get some evergreen to cover some trellis but planted a Montana in between them for some colour and interest.
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you could fan train a evergreen ceanothus over it - fairly quick growing, blue flowers in spring/summer followed by black berries . Ask at nursery for advice on the best one.
Honeysuckle.
on all four sides. From sunrise to sunset there is some area of wall
exposed to sunlight. I would be grateful for any and all advice given. All plants would be from pots/containers. ????
I have a trellis fence that is 12m wide x 1.3m high. Until last autumn it was beautifully covered with ivy and provided a nice private garden. Then my neighbours decided it was invasive and dug the whole lot up. I now have a very bare trellis fence... I need to plant something that will grow quickly, spread rather than go high and it needs to be hardy. I would prefer evergreen if possible and would like flowers in spring/summer. Any ideas?
Hi Tommy 3, I have some climbers in pots that are behaving quite well:
I have a David Austin climbing rose that's in a very large pot using wire to support it growing up the side of the house. I have a lovely scented jasmine and in another pot a bluebell creeper/ sollya heterophylla and they're both evergreen covering obelisks. The creeper can just be as ground cover if you wished. It has lovely bell shaped flowers and small leaves. I also have a honeysuckle in a pot but it's important to make sure it doesn't dry out.
Hi Hethie, Was it their ivy?! Would you like to try another ivy and another plant growing together? Clematis Montana is lovely, with an abundance of flowers and is fast growing (and growing with the ivy it wouldn't be so noticeable that it's not evergreen?). Solanum Crispum is fast growing and for the most part evergreen (I've heard if it's a particularly bad winter it suffers somewhat), it is fast grpwing and has an abundance of tiny purple flowers with yellow centres for the majority of the summer. Mine has already started to flower and it only really stopped flowering around late September time (I'm in the Midlands). The Jasmine I have is evergreen with beautifully fragrant white star shaped flowers (sorry I can't remember the type!), and is evergreen.
Confederate or Star Jasmine is evergreen.. or Clematis Montana's as stated are vigorous but not evergreen. I've just planted a Montana next to two ivy's to get some evergreen to cover some trellis but planted a Montana in between them for some colour and interest.
Cheers!