For an 'instant' and attractive, in my view anyway, screen, try the cane
wall screens from the garden centres. Various heights and quite long in a
roll. Can be erected double thickness for total screen. Erects/hangs on
wires stretched from pole/post to pole/post

Mike

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"VX" wrote in message
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I need an evergreen climber to cover a pergola, preferably quickly. This
pergola is resting on one side against a house wall and the brickwork is
not
in the best condition, so I need to be careful. I would not want ivy to
grow
all over the house wall. I need something that is not going to try to do
that.
I want the climber to act as a screen visually so people can sit under the
perrgola and not be in full view of overlooking buildings. Ivy of some
sort
seems the obvious choice but I don't want to be fighting some colossal
entity
for years to come in the attempt to stop it climbing all over the house
wall.
It did occur to me that there might be an ivy that only climbs a few
metres
and then stops. The pergola is a little over two metres high and three
metres
across from the outside to the house wall. I could plant more than one
climber along its length if need be. A climber that will cover the total
five metres from the ground to the top and then over to the wall and then
stops would be ideal and _maybe_ there is something that would do that,
more
or less. If it grows a little more than that I could trim it, but it would
need to be not growing much more than that.

Any suggestions would be helpful- if there is anything that fits this
description!

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