Favourite climbing plants chosen by the3Growbags

Climbing plants can add so much to the beauty of a garden, wall, glasshouse or balcony. Between all three Growbags and our regular columnist, Louise Sims, we grow a lot of them! This is a handy aide-memoire to bring our thoughts about them together into one post.

We start with a fairly short list of climbers that flower in winter and spring, and it includes some early-flowering clematis (and one very early rose). The second section is for climbers that flower in summer or autumn, with separate headings at the bottom for clematis and roses because there are so many of them! Click on any name to take you to the post in which we wrote about it.

For winter and spring

Akebia quinata

Clematis alpina  ‘Ruby’  

Clematis alpina ‘Constance’

Clematis armandii

Clematis cartmanii ‘Avalanche’

Clematis cirrhosa Balearica

Clematis cirrhosa purpurescens ‘Landsdowne Gem’

Clematis ‘Frances Rivis’

Clematis ‘Freckles’

Clematis ‘Ovation’

Hedera helix arborescens variegata

Hedera helix ‘Goldheart’

Hedera helix ‘Sulphurheart’

Jasminum polyanthum

Lonicera purpusii ‘Winter Beauty’ AGM

Rosa china ‘ Pompom de Paris’

Climbers for summer and autumn:

Aristolochia grandiflora

Campsis radicans

Cobaea scandens

Dolichos lablab ‘Ruby Moon’

Dregea sinensis

Hedera colchica ‘Dentata Variegata’

Humulus lupulus aureus – golden hop

Ipomaea indica

Lapageria rosea

Lathyrus latifolius AGM

Lathyrus odorata

Lathyrus nervosus ‘Lord Anson’s pea’

Lathyrus rotundifolia

Lonicera ‘Graham Thomas’

Lonicera periclymenum ‘Late Dutch’

Lonicera brownii ‘Dropmore Scarlet’

Lophospermum erubescens  – creeping gloxinia

Magnolia ‘Exmouth’

Mandevilla laxa

Passiflora ‘Constance Elliott’

Passiflora ‘Snow Queen’

Parthenocissus quinquefolia – Virginia creeper

Vitis vinifera Purpurea

Solanum crispum

Solanum laxum  ‘Creche du Pape’

Solanum  jasminoides ‘Album‘

Tropaeolum speciosum

Tropaeolum tuberosum

Vitis fragola

Vitis vinifera ‘Brant’

Vitis vinifera purpurea

Wisteria floribunda f. multijuga

Clematis:

Clematis alba luxurians

Clematis ‘Belle of Woking’

Clematis ‘Bill Mackenzie’

Clematis ‘Black Tea’

Clematis ‘Guernsey Cream’

Clematis ‘Huldine’

Clematis Venosa violacea

Clematis ‘Kermesina’

Clematis Madame Julia Correvon‘

Clematis Mrs Robert Brydon

Clematis ‘Niobe’

Clematis ‘Nubia’

Clematis ‘Prince Charles’

Clematis rehderiana

Clematis ‘Rosalyn’

Clematis ‘Sea Breeze’

Clematis ‘Sugar Candy Evione

Clematis texensis ‘Princess Diana’

Clematis texensis ‘Princess Kate’

Clematis tritenata rubromarginata

Clematis viticella  ‘Etoile Violette’   

Clematis ‘Vyvyan Pennell

Climbing roses:

Rosa ‘Cl.Cecile Brunner’

Rosa ‘Crown Princess Margareta’

Rosa ‘Mermaid’

Rosa ‘Paul Noel’ (Paul Transon)

Rosa ‘Souvenir de Dr. Jamain’ climbing

Rosa ‘The Pilgrim’