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An empty fence or wall can quickly diminish the overall beauty of your garden, giving the area an unfinished or exposed look. Luckily, there’s an elegant and easy-to-care-for solution that can turn these blank spaces into lively features. Fast-growing climbing plants are ideal for this, and gardening fans have taken a liking to three in particular.
Taking to the Facebook page Gardening UK Hints, Tips and Advice, gardening fan Demi Bishop asked for a recommendation to cover her garden wall. She wrote: “Hi all. Can anybody recommend something to grow up this [wall] for a little extra privacy? As you can see, it’s slabs at the bottom. I was thinking of a climbing rose, but open to other ideas.” Fellow gardening enthusiasts took to the comments section and suggested three stunning plants.
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Climbing plants add beauty to walls (Image: Getty)1. Star Jasmine
Star Jasmine can certainly be a rewarding plant to feature in your garden. An attractive woody climbing plant, it is particularly prized for its evergreen foliage and its wonderfully scented flowers.
Group member Becky Pink wrote: “Star Jasmine would be ideal, needs to be planted in a large pot with good drainage, it has a lovely scent.”
David Stretton-Watts said, “Star Jasmine will grow in a large pot. It’s evergreen and has lovely fragrant flowers all summer.
Rachel Green added, “Star Jasmin is a fast-growing climbing plant you can put there.”
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) have listed Star Jasmin as one of their top climbing plants. They said: “This attractive, fragrant, self-clinging evergreen has been seen more often recently and seems hardier than previously thought.
“The glossy green leaves are prettily mottled and cream-edged and develop pink tints in cooler weather. For two months in summer, there are clusters of sweetly scented, white, jasmine-like flowers.”
Star Jasmine can certainly be a rewarding plant to feature in your garden (Image: Getty)2. Clematis
Clemais came recommended by gardening enthusiasts due to its stunning blooms. Gunnn Sayles wrote: “Clematis would look lovely, they do not like the sun on the roots in the morning, so need to cover up.”
Kay Willis agreed: “Clematis. There are loads of choices as they flower at different times.”
Salli Binsted replied: “My personal favourites are Clematis. A large variety of colours, flower shapes and sizes, evergreen and non-evergreen. I have some in large pots that thrive in a south-facing garden and were still flowering in November.”
The RHS favour one particular Clematis for covering walls and fences — Clematis Alionushka.
They said: “The large ruffled bells of this prolific yet very manageable clematis are bright pink, sometimes with mauve tints, and with a darker stripe through each petal.”
Clemais came recommended by gardening enthusiasts due to its stunning blooms (Image: Getty)3. David Austin roses
A big fan of these flowers, Jermey Graves commented: “I would definitely get a David Austin brochure, which will help you choose the right rose for you.”
Highlighting one particular David Austin rose, Cindy Singleton wrote: “I would put some trellis against that wall and grow a David Austin rose called Gertrude Jekyll. It’s a beautiful one and enjoys a sunny spot, a short climber, stunning pink and a very strong fragrance.
“It would need a huge pot, but it will work well given the right compost and care. I have two against some strong trellis, mine are in the ground, but I know people do have them in pots.”
The David Austin Roses website describes this plant as being a “vigorous rose” that will “grow perfectly” in pots and containers or in borders against walls.
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