Category Archives: Climbing plants
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Rubus rugosus
Posted on March 5, 2015 by stephenryan in Climbing plants, Edible, evergreen, Foliage plants, shade tolerantThere are blackberries and there are blackberries! I spend a lot of time destroying the weedy ones and almost no time tending this handsome beastie. It has long arching canes so needs a fence or other support to tie it back to and the oldest canes need removing every couple of years otherwise it couldn’t […]
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Tropaeolum ciliatum
Posted on March 1, 2015 by stephenryan in Climbing plants, Collector Plants, PerennialsI love herbaceous perennial climbers as I can grow them over other plants getting double value for the one spot. By their very nature they can only get so big in one growing season and then will die back again. This South American species grows throughout the summer flowering as it goes well into the […]
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Tropaeolum speciosum
Posted on December 30, 2014 by stephenryan in Climbing plants, Collector Plants, Edible, herbaceous climbers, PerennialsI well remember this amazing herbaceous climber known as Flame Creeper dripping out of yew hedges in England and couldn’t wait to try it myself. So eventually seed came my way and up they came. It all seemed too easy considering the dire warnings of pundits suggesting it needs a Scottish climate to thrive! Well […]
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Hydrangea seemannii
Posted on December 12, 2014 by stephenryan in Climbing plants, Collector Plants, evergreen, Foliage plants, shade tolerantHow many self clinging evergreen cold hardy flowering climbers do you know? There aren’t that many but this Hydrangea has all of those features and is obviously something that we should all considering for our gardens, particularly as it will grow to the height of its support and more or less stop there. If you […]
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Schizophragma integrifolium var. fauriei
Posted on October 14, 2014 by stephenryan in autumn colour, Climbing plants, Collector Plants, Deciduous, Foliage plants, Good for cutting, shade tolerant, WoodlandersThe self clinging climbers in the Hydrangea family are unique and indispensable as garden plants. What other self clinging shade tolerant showily flowering climbers that are cold tolerant are there? If you know of any let me know as I’ll won’t to grow them as well. The Genus Schizophragma only differes from true Hydrangeas in […]
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Clematis ‘Mrs. Robert Brydon’
Posted on October 4, 2014 by stephenryan in Climbing plants, Collector Plants, Deciduous, Foliage plants, Good for cutting, Ground cover, shade tolerantI love and collect clematis of all sorts as their generally light airy habit makes them ideal to grow up and over other plants without swamping the host and giving two shows in the place where I would normally have only one. A heavy winter prune will keep nearly all of them in order. This […]
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Mitraria coccinea
Posted on July 11, 2014 by stephenryan in Climbing plants, Collector Plants, evergreen, Good Pot Plant, Ground cover, shade tolerant, ShrubsSomething less like the ubiquitous African Violet would seem almost impossible but this South American trailing evergreen shrub is in fact in the same family. It will trail across the ground, grow up anything it is tried to or make an interesting hanging basket subject if you are into such things (I find they dry […]
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Parthenocissus henryana
Posted on March 14, 2014 by stephenryan in autumn colour, Climbing plants, Collector Plants, drought tolerant, Foliage plants, Ground cover, shade tolerantThis climbing relative of the humble grape vine has it all in my humble opinion so why haven’t you planted it yet? Its summer foliage is a rich green with a burgundy reverse (you always see the back through the window so it is important). If it is growing in semi to full shade the […]
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Vitis vinifera ‘Purpurea’
Posted on May 9, 2013 by stephenryan in autumn colour, Climbing plants, Collector Plants, drought tolerant, Edible, Foliage plantsThis stunning ornamental Grape is rarely offered in Australia and I find it hard to understand why. It is far less rampant that the classical one and its leaves start to turn burgundy as soon as they get to full size so that right throughout late spring summer and autumn you get burgungy foliage which […]
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Clematis armandii ‘Apple Blossom’
Posted on December 2, 2012 by stephenryan in Climbing plants, Collector Plants, evergreen, scentedOne of the worlds great climbing plants from China. It is a vigorous evergreen plant with large glossy rich green leaves that start life a rich copper colour in the pink forms. In early spring the growth produced last spring will produce swags of softest pink highly scented flowers that will have you standing there […]
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