Category: Climbing plants
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Actinidia kolomikta
There are some plants out there that will always attract attention and this has to be one! It is a member of the same Genus as those furry little Kiwi fruit that have become indispensable on a pavlova. But it is for its amazing variegated leaves that you grow this plant. The variegation rarely presents
Stephen Ryan
Jasminum nudiflorum
This indestructible plant will grow in sun or shade cope with drought and the roots of the most vicious kinds and can be grown as a sprawling shrub, a trailing wall cover, a climber or a standard. It is particularly good thrown up through the lower branches of an uninteresting tree trunk. It produces its bright
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Clematis montana ‘Marjorie’
This is a rarely grown form of one of the most loved hardy deciduous clematis species. It varies from the wild form in being a little more restrained in habit making it ideal over arches and such like, its new foliage is quite bronzed and the flowers area lovely mix of white and soft salmon
Stephen Ryan
Tropaeolum tricolorum
This cute as a button herbaceous perennial winter growing climber always gets a response from those that don’t know it. It is simple to grow in sun or semi-shade as long as the potato like tubers are kept dry in summer. I usually pot grow it so that it can spend the summer in the
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Canarina canariensis
This is a bit of horticultural tautology as its name means a Canary Islands plant from the Canary Islands! It is a herbaceous perennial winter growing climber that can reach about 3metres and its rich orange bells hang from its succulent stems all late winter and spring.I use it up deciduous shrubs in my garden
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Lonicera hildebrandiana
I’m standing next to one of the worlds most spectacular climbers the giant Burmese Honeysuckle which can grow vast and loves a well drained sunny site. It is slightly frost tender when young so a cover for the first winter for those of you that need to will pay off. The scent is to die
Stephen Ryan