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shazzbat wrote:

I'm looking for a climber to grow on an arch round our front door. There was
a passion flower there, but this seems not to have survived the winter.
Trouble is, the front door faces North, gets almost no sun even when there
is any, and the situation is like a wind tunnel between two rows of houses.
What passes for soil round here is basically new forest sand. What would you
plant?

Would the roots be in the rain shadow? The answers yes, no and partly
all imply different plants.

Many of the clematis and honeysuckle would be perfectly happy, as
would Akebia quinata, provided that they are not wholly in the
rain shadow. A few of them could handle even that, if they can
get their roots beyond it.

A plant I grow that needs to be in the rain shadow, though pure
sand would help, is Passiflora incarnata (maypops, a herbaceous
passion flower). But getting a plant might be impossible - I had
to grow it from seed.

However, few of them will flower brilliantly with no sun, though
many will do so adequately if they get merely indirect light.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.