In article .com,
"Gardening_Convert" writes:
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| Could anybody give me some advice. I have recently moved to a new house.
| On the side of the house we have a slated fence. I was considering
| planting an ever green climber('s) for privacy purposes. I would like
| something that needs relatively little maintenance and can put up with
| the Scottish winter. Very new to gardening so any advice would be
| appreciated.
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| It depends where in Scotland. In the colder parts, the answer is ivy
| (Hedera helix). In slightly warmer ones, you can add H. colchica,
| followed by Clematis armandii. In the warmest locations, there are
| quite a lot of other evergreen climbers.
|
| We have a Clematis Armondii and they are great . It grows quickly has
| lovely shaped leaves and has survived teh very harsh frost we have had
| and the really hot weather we had last year.

Boggle. Where do you live? Most places in the UK haven't had any
very harsh frosts in years, and last summer was definitely not a
hot one. C. armandii can take moderate frosts, but not hard ones.

| Other things would be honeysuckle or jasmine

There are no honeysuckles or jasmines that are both reliably hardy
and reliably evergreen in the colder parts of the UK. Sorry.

Note that -10 Celcius is NOT a very harsh frost by the standards
of even Cambridge, let alone the colder parts of Scotland.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.