If you want your garden looking as lush and vibrant as possible, it’s time to start using your vertical space. For a lot of people, this will mean climbing plants. Training climbing plants to grow over fences, trellises, archways, and other structures allows even more space for greenery in your garden. Here are our top 10 favourite climbing plants to grow.
1. Evergreen Star Jasmine
This gorgeous plant boasts displays of bright white summer flowers. With its evergreen foliage, it is the perfect addition to a vertical space that needs some year-round greenery.
2. Passion Flower
These funky looking flowers open up for unique, vibrant summer displays. The flashes of blue around a purple and yellow centre create a striking look. After flowering, this plant produces little orange-yellow fruits.
3. Sulphur Heart Ivy
This plant has all the lush, familiar foliage of ivy with soft splashes of light green variegation. The variegation is a great way to add a touch of character to your garden. Ivy is notoriously low maintenance and easy to care for, perfect to brighten up a forgotten corner.
4. Late Spring Flowering Clematis
This Clematis will provide stunning displays of purple flowers in the late spring, tinged with pink-red in the centre.
5. American Beauty Honeysuckle
For a honeysuckle with a twist, this ‘Beauty’ is ideal. Red buds in the spring open into pink and yellow blooms throughout the spring and summer.
6. Wisteria Amethyst Falls
Wisteria is one of the most recognisable climbing plants, owing to its classic cascading flowers. Amethyst Falls is a gorgeous variety with lilac-blue blooms. This plant is both beautiful and low maintenance.
7. Climbing Hydrangea
Hydrangeas are a beloved garden plant, and for good reason. If you’re after a fuss-free climbing plant with beautiful flowers, this is a great option. The fresh green foliage turns to butter yellow in the autumn, adding to the interest of this plant.
8. Flamenco Trumpet Vine
Lovely, pinnate foliage is complemented with trumpet-shaped blooms from June to September. The orange-red flowers provide a unique colour to your garden.
9. Climbing Rose Alchemist
If you love the look of roses, this is the perfect way to add more to your garden. Climbing roses utilise otherwise unoccupied vertical spaces to create beautiful, classic blooms. This particular variety has gorgeous flowers with various shades of peach and pink throughout the petals.
10. Star Showers Parthenocissus
If you’re looking for more of a focus on foliage than flowers, this is the climbing plant for you. The stunning splatters of white, pink, and light green variegation create artistic looking growth. This plant is sure to add some colour and character to your garden.