Climbers
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Akebia Lardizabalaceae
Delicate vanilla-scented deep red flowers drooping from evergreen 5-lobed foliage. Edible fruit. Sun/part-shade.
American Peanut Fabaceae
Attractive pinnate-leaved leguminous climber with scented burgundy flowers in autumn, producing strings of edible tubers. The American pioneers used these as famine food.
Sierra Pipe Vine Aristolochiaceae
Deciduous vine, producing masses of purple-striped flowers prior to emergence of the green heart-shaped leaves. California. Hardy. Full sun.
Etruscan Honeysuckle Caprifoliaceae
Vigorous deciduous hardy climber with grey-green foliage and clusters of fragrant cream to yellow flowers from July-Sept. Mediterranean. Introduced 1750.
English Honeysuckle Caprifoliaceae
Deliciously scented white-pale yellow flowering form of our native honeysuckle. Flowering from late May to September. Excellent subject for a wall, arch or fence. Attracts hummingbird hawkmoths. Long flowering season. Keep watered for a long flowering season. The scent can fill a garden in early evening.
Laurel-leaved Currant Grossulariaceae
A spreading evergreen shrub with leathery dark green leaves and pendant clusters of yellow-green flowers in late winter and early spring. Compact form with hermaphrodite flowers. Excellent subject for wall training. Bee plant
Musk Rose Rosaceae
Chinese form of this wonderfully scented climbing rose.
Silky Rose Rosaceae
This form has masses of ferny pinnate leaves and elongated hips similar shape to calabash. The flowers are white with usually four petals. Forms a small shrub with fine prickles. Himalayas
Large Flowered Schisandra Schisandraceae
Our collection from 3500m in Bhutan in 2007. Deciduous climber to 6m with large pale pink flowers from April-June. Followed by long drupes of excellent edible waxy red berries. With stood minus 18 in the nursery. Easy in dappled shade. Ht 6m. Himalayas.
Asiatic Jasmine Apocynaceae
Evergreen climber with highly scented white flowers in summer. Leaves turn reddish in winter. Creamy white flowers. Sun. Ht 2.5m. Japan. Korea.