Ivydene Gardens Plants:
Climber List

Climbers to train onto walls, fences, arbours, trellis, pergolas are the ones to use on buildings. The Climber Gallery shows colour photographs of some of the following climbers.

Climbers which climb by twining or self-clinging to walls, fences, arbours, trellis, pergolas are definitely not suitable for buildings, since they can they block your guttering and go under your roof tiles and into your loft. This may allow rainwater entry to your building with its consequent damage.
 

Climbers for North and East facing Walls.

Exposed to cold winds, mostly shaded and being the direction of the worst winter weather, North and East facing walls provide difficult conditions for climbing plants, but the following are suitable for training:-
Camellia
Chaenomeles
Clematis
Cotoneaster horizontalis
Escallonia (unsuitable for East facing walls)
Euonymus, Eounymus fortunei
Forsythia suspensa
Jasminum nudiflorum (avoid East facing walls)
Kerria japonica 'Pleniflora'
Pyracantha
Vitis

and the following for self-support by twining or self-clinging:-
Hedera canariensis 'Variegata'
Hedera colchica, 'Dentata Variegata' and 'Sulphur Heart'
Hedera helix 'Glacier', 'Gold Heart', 'Green Ripple',
Hedera helix 'Jesters Gold' and 'White Heart'
Hedera hibernica
Hydrangea petiolaris
Lonicera japonica 'Aureoreticulata'
Parthenocissus
Polygonum baldschuanicum

Climbers for South and West facing walls.

Very rarely will a plant against a South-facing wall be frosted in the UK. The wall effectively acts as a night storage heater - soaking up warmth during the day and releasing it slowly over night. Waterlogging is never a danger, drought being a more common hazard, so plant climber 2 feet away from wall and mulch to 4" depth. The following are suitable for training:-
Abeliophyllum distichum
Abutilon
Actinidia deliciosa and kolomikta
Akebia quinata
Aloysia triphylla
Campsis
Ceanothus
Chimonanthus
Cytisus battandieri
Eccremocarpus scaber
Escallonia
Ficus carica
Fremontodendron 'Pacific Sunset'
Fuchsia
Hebe, 'Great Orme' and 'Midsummer Beauty'
Itea ilicifolia
Jasminum officinale 'Fiona Sunrise', 'Grandiflorum' and
Jasminum x stephanense
Leptospermum scoparium 'Red Damask'
Magnolia grandiflora 'Exmouth'
Phygelius capensis
Piptanthus nepalensis
Solanum crispum 'Glasnevin var.' and jasminoides 'Album'
Viburnum burkwoodii and 'Park Farm Hybrid'
Vitis

and the following for self-support by twining or self-clinging:-
Clematis
Hydrangea petiolaris (for West -facing walls)
Lonicera x brownii 'Dropmore Scarlet'
Passiflora caerulea
Trachelospermum jasminoides
Wisteria
 

For a domestic green wall and roof system, see ELT Easy Green (its UK franchise is Aldingbourne Nurseries, Church Road, Aldingbourne, West Sussex.)

Greenfix Sky Gardens can also supply green roof and wall systems.

Evergreen - Of plants that retain their foliage for more than one growing season; semi-evergreen plants retain only a small proportion of their leaves for more than one season.

Hedera helix 'Green Ripple'
Hedera helix 'Ivalace'
 

6 x 10
3 x 4
 

Climber - A plant that climbs using other plants or objects as support: self-climber clinging by means of supporting adventitious aerial roots or adhesive tendril tips; tendril climbers by coiling their leaf stalks, leaf tendrils, or modified terminal shoots; twining climbers by coiling their stems. Scandent, scrambling, and trailing climbers produce long, usually flexuous, stems that grow over or through plants or other supports: they attach themselves only loosely, if at all, to the support.

Cissus striata
Clematis armandii
Clematis cirrhosa
Clematis montana 'Elizabeth'
Clematis montana
grandiflora 'Alba'
Clematis montana var. rubens
Clematis tangutica
Hedera canariensis
Hedera colchica
Hedera colchica
'Dentata Variegata'
Hedera colchica 'Sulphur Heart'
Hedera hibernica
Lonicera henryi
Lonicera hildebrandiana
Lonicera japonica 'Halliana'
Lonicera sempervirens
Passiflora caerulea
Passiflora mollissima
 

30 x indefinite
12 x 8
9 x 5
30 x 8
30 x 8
.
30 x 8
15 x 8
12 x indefinite
30 x 15
15 x 10
.
15 x 10
30 x 20
30 x indefinite
30 x indefinite
30 x 20
12 x indefinite
30 x indefinite
15 x indefinite
 

Akebia quinata
Solanum crispum 'Glasnevin'
Solanum jasminoides 'Album'
 

28 x 3
20 x 10
20 x 10
 

Twining

Deciduous - Of plants that shed leaves at the end of the growing season and renew them at the beginning of the next: semi-deciduous plants lose only some of their leaves at the end of the growing season.

Lonicera fragrantissima
 

6 x 10
 

Actinidia kolomikta
Campsis grandiflora
Campsis radicans
Campsis x tagliabuana 'Madam Galen'
Clematis macropetala
Humulus lupulus 'Aureus'
Hydrangea petiolaris
Lonicera heckrottii 'Gold Flame'
Lonicera periclymenum 'Belgica'
Lonicera periclymenum 'Serotina'
Lonicera tellmaniana
Parthenocissus tricuspidata 'Veitcheii'
Rosa (Climbing) 'Golden Showers'
Rosa (Climbing) 'New Dawn'
Rosa (Climbing) 'Zephirine Druihin'
Schizophragma hydrangeoides
Vitis coignetiae
Vitis vinifera 'Purpurea'
Wisteria floribunda 'Alba'
Wisteria floribunda 'Violacea Plena'
Wisteria sinensis
Wisteria sinensis 'Alba'
 

15 x indefinite
30 x indefinite
30 x indefinite
30 x indefinite
8 x 5
20 x 1
50 x 20
15 x 12
22 x indefinite
22 x 20
15 x 15
70 x 20
10 x 6
10 x 8
10 x 6
40 x 10
50 x indefinite
23 x 4
28 x 5
28 x 5
100 x 10
100 x 10

 

Twining