Climbing plants - how to choose the right climber for your garden!

Climbing plants add interest and colour, especially in small or middle-sized gardens. Use your vertical space for more flowers or beautiful foliage. But to choose the right climber for your garden, you need to ask five questions - and 'What colour are the flowers?' is the last one, not the first!

The names of the plants mentioned include:
Variegated hardy kiwi - Actinidia kolomikta
Boston ivy - Parthenocissus henryana
Wisteria
Climbing rose 'William Lobb'

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[itsmewende]

I love Wisteria, we had it growing wild all over the woods around our house, I'm 61 now and can still smell them walking up the path to my Grandparents. My mom dug a couple nice sized ones and planted them on each side of the driveway, then she kept them cut back in a weeping tree form. And there's not many flowers to rival the scent of Wisteria.

[juliekane]

Beautiful sweater, Alexandra - great color for you. Good video about climbers, too. :-)

[paultsworld]

Climbers are my favourite plants - I love to have clematis climbing through large shrubs.

[TheFlouchke]

Dear Alexandra, thank you very much for the love and attention you put in your videos. Because of you I now go out every day for half and hour (with my timer) and the garden looks a lot better. And thanks to you I weed and add manure every you have helped me into a rhythm. Your garden is absolutely beautiful. I love watching your videos with a cup of happy gardening! xxx

[TheEnduringGardener]

Good point Alexandra, the less time spent up a ladder the better.

[AJsGreenThumbLLC]

Your video is right on-time! Superb list of requirements that are relevant to not only climbers, but just about any plant. Thanks Ms. Alexandra

[verawallace]

Always so helpful, someone who help me with my grass, almost killed A climbing Rose I had, now i have to try and bring it back, its starting to put out tiny shoots very low on the ground, I feed it some miracle grow, hopefully it will survive

[xRhonaMx]

This is so, so helpful, thank you! The variegated kiwi is new to me and looks amazing x

[beckyscheller]

Packed full of information Thanks for posting.

[kieramoore]

Wow, thank you, very informative video for a novice gardener like me. I came here because I want to replace my potted passion flower that's looking a little needing. I won't lie, I've paid it no attention, and it shows in its growth. You have given me some wonderful ideas. Thank you very much!

[bluetongueliz]

I'm starting a garden soon. It's mostly shaded. This is really comprehensive information. Thanks so much Alexandra.

[carmenbailey]

Loving climbers, we have clematis, Wisteria, Dutchman ‘s pipe and climbing hydrangea. And I enjoyed your video and agree with you about the Wisteria the maintenance is very much something to be aware of. Thanks for sharing 👍❤️😊

[AndreaAubertin]

I really enjoy watching your chanel...you talk about things that most shows don't talk about. And you make it very educational. Thankyou very much!

[Sarah_L_N]

Great advice, I wouldn't have thought about pruning times needing to be the same to make it easier. That variegated kiwi is so pretty!

[veragiles]

Oh yes, so easy to ever imagine a little garden centre plant will grow into a monstrous triffid!! I planted Paul's Himalayan Musk (rose). Absolutely gorgeous, but, my oh my, it's HUGE!! Need to rethink support for it!

[carole-fx]

Hello Alexandra, thank you for a beautiful video about climbers. When you first mentioned climbers I thought about my two clematis plants, and then remembered our crazy wisteria that is climbing all over the place, planted by previous owners in a spot where there is nothing to hold onto. They should have seen this video first. Thanks for taking the time and you look great in that coral color. Have a Happy Mothers Day weekend....oh maybe it is just here in the USA but I'm sending it over there to you.

[maceyloubrown]

Fabulous video!💖🦋👏🏻Thanks for the information and inspiration, as usual!☺️

[mzurilovebeautyfragranceslove]

Love this video thank you! I have a winter beauty clematis on one side of my arch and an apple blossom clematis on the other side, very young and very controlled growing in planters for now. I would love to have a Montana clematis at the back over another arch, but I have bought so many plants during quarantine, I'll consider that purchase later on maybe.

[poples]

This is very informative, thank you. I'd never heard of the variegated kiwi before, but it seems that it might actually be able to grow where I live, amazingly enough. That plant is definitely going on my wishlist for when the time comes I can get a garden of my own!

[simoncattle]

Thanks for this. I really like your helpful, informative videos.