Dave Hill wrote:
Why not try Viburnum Tinus, Evergreen, flowers and berries, not an
alpine climber but grows quite rapidly once established, esp if you
prune it back.

I would certainly try a couple of Viburnums, Dave, if the one we have
hadn't suffered so badly this last winter. It's been left BROWN. It'll
be interesting to see if it tries to recover in the coming months. It's
not the only species in our garden here that appears to have been
finished off. Three other well-established evergreen bushes were
completely browned. And the flaxes were so badly damaged I've had to
cut them right away, right down at ground-level. (No sign of any new
growth yet.)

Eddy.