Evergreen climbers
 

Can anyone suggest an evergreen climber to cover a rustic trellis?

We already have three Clematis, two Potatoe Vines and a Honeysuckle (all non-evergreen), and have planted lots of sweet peas to fill the gaps this summer, but would also like something for the winter.

The soil is good (lots of compost dug into it), it gets the sun most of the day, but is quite a windy spot in the garden.

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Can anyone suggest an evergreen climber to cover a rustic trellis?

Varigated ivy?

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Can anyone suggest an evergreen climber to cover a rustic trellis?

We already have three Clematis, two Potatoe Vines and a Honeysuckle
(all non-evergreen), and have planted lots of sweet peas to fill the
gaps this summer, but would also like something for the winter.

The soil is good (lots of compost dug into it), it gets the sun most of
the day, but is quite a windy spot in the garden.


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ellgee

Get an evergreen clematis, an evergreen honeysuckle, or a variegated Ivy.
I can't remeber names exactly, though the Honeysuckle might be a Japonica
of some sort, or there is anther called Henryi. The clematis might be called
Armandii or something like that: other posters will correct me. Be patient
with the
ivy, the variegated stuff is a bit slow.

Andy.

On Wed, 25 May 2005 08:13:58 +0000, ellgee
wrote:


Can anyone suggest an evergreen climber to cover a rustic trellis?

We already have three Clematis, two Potatoe Vines and a Honeysuckle
(all non-evergreen), and have planted lots of sweet peas to fill the
gaps this summer, but would also like something for the winter.

The soil is good (lots of compost dug into it), it gets the sun most of
the day, but is quite a windy spot in the garden.

Try clematis armandii. It is evergreen, grows fast and has scented
flowers early in the year. Beware though, it will probably swamp your
other clematis which are not such vigorous growers.

Pam in Bristol

"ellgee" wrote in message
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Can anyone suggest an evergreen climber to cover a rustic trellis?

We already have three Clematis, two Potatoe Vines and a Honeysuckle
(all non-evergreen), and have planted lots of sweet peas to fill the
gaps this summer, but would also like something for the winter.

The soil is good (lots of compost dug into it), it gets the sun most of
the day, but is quite a windy spot in the garden.
What location/climate conditions.

Do the potatoe vines taste of potatoes?

In article , spakker december13@dec
ember13.karoo.co.uk writes
Do the potatoe vines taste of potatoes?

They're called potato vine because they are in the same genus as
potatoes. Since that genus contains some of our most poisonous plants
(and most parts of the potato plant are poisonous) I would suggest that
if you're really curious, you do the tasting yourself - I'm certainly
not going to!


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Kay
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Thanks for your ideas everyone. Looks like I'm off to the garden centre this weekend - well what else are Bank Holiday's for???? Cheers