Help - Rapid climber for a shady place.

[sarraceniac]

I have just put a tall fence down a shady 'lane' on my property. It only gets the sun from about 1 p.m. to 4 p. m. and again the last couple of hours of the day in summer and only the afternoon session in winter, the sun doesn't get round far enough for an evening shine Nov- March.

Anybody know of a fairly rapid growing climber I can pop in? I hate bare wood fences. I've got a climbing hydrangea on a north wall which I put in 3 years ago but although it is still alive and healthy it is so slow it makes my teenage grandson look dynamic.

[Two_Sheds]

you've probably already dismissed ivy and passion flower? any of these appeal? The knowledge. This week: climbers - Telegraph

[sarraceniac]

I've dismissed Passiflora because they tend to like warm and sunny and, because of lack of sun the soil isn't too warm either. Ivy would survive and I may well end up with it, but I was hoping (in vain?) that someone might think of something a bit more interesting. Thanks I'll certainly keep it in mind, especially if I can find a 'colourful' but hardy one.

Is there a clematis that not only doesn't mind its feet in the shade but its head too? Not too bothered about evergreen. We don't often sit out in the garden, in Yorkshire, in winter.

[Jeanied]

I've just been out to check what is going on on my shady fence which is just outside the kitchen door - I have ivy, two kinds of honeysuckle - the yellow one is still flowering and the other is covered in red berries - two clematis - one viticella and one x durandii (the latter still has one flower on). My fence line bisects the U shape created by the kitchens being build on the back of the terraced houses and only gets direct sunlight, in summer, in the later afternoon. The only bit of extra care I have to give is to keep them watered.

[sarraceniac]

Mine is a 'just outside the kitchen door' job as well Jeanied. I hadn't actually thought of putting several things in (well I just wanted something fast, no not Mile a min., it is Sunday morning and I am getting doddery ) so well worth considering a similar mix for me. Thanks.

[Jeanied]

Now's a good time to get them as well sarraceniac, I keep finding loads of honeysuckle and clematis in the bargain bin at the garden centre!
Ooh, just remembered - we had a pyracantha growing there before I dug it out - it got a bit leggy which is why - but if you are into training!

[sarraceniac]

I actually bought a Passiflora that I haven't got, at Morrison's last week. 80 pence . It is a pink one, P. jamesonii. Trouble is it isn't as hardy as the P. caerulea or the P. Constance Elliot which I do quite well with, it's recommended for zone 9b, so I don't know where I should plant it (maybe in West Cornwall? )

[Two_Sheds]

I've always struggled with Constance Elliot, and I'm warmer than you Sarra

[Two_Sheds]

I've dismissed Passiflora because they tend to like warm and sunny

for flowering, yes.
Just for leaves, it will tolerate a bit of shade (I've got a rampant one on the shady side of the blue shed in my avatar, wot you can't see ... it's been there for 4 years, and only flowered this year).

[sarraceniac]

I've always struggled with Constance Elliot, and I'm warmer than you Sarra

I don't think you will be much (if any) warmer than my walled garden TS. It was designed (and largely built) by my friend and neighbour who is a retired hard landscape specialist. In winter it is usually about 2-3oC warmer than any other area in my garden. I don't often get even a light frost there. George really knows his stuff and knowing that my first love in non-edibles is exotics and semi-tropicals he really did a fantastic job. And all for the cost of the materials plus the odd pint of lager and a bottle of whisky when we finished. I grow outside without fleece, all year. Puyas, Arundo donax, Bottle-brushes, Banksia, well that will give you the idea. I usually take young plants under glass in winter but next year, I shall even try a Cycad or two out in winter. sorry wrong smilie

[ophiopogon]

climbinmg hydrangea

climbing hydrangea

[sarraceniac]

climbing hydrangea

Read my first post on this thread Ophiopogon. I need(ed) a rapid climber.

[pipkins]

A rambling rose maybe?

[ophiopogon]

russian vine

http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/cli...no.PL00004749/

[ophiopogon]

Clematis armandii