climbers
By Mookins
Norfolk, United Kingdom
can you have 2 climbers growing around a pergola that flower at different times of the year
ie summer and winter?
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- 24 Jul, 2009
Answers
some climbers will take over another climber bye strangling it or being more vigerous but there shouldnt be much of a problem realy
25 Jul, 2009
Yes, you can Mookins - as long as you don't choose one that gets 30 feet rapidly, and the other only 8 feet when mature! For the reasons Noseypotter states above - so you could, for instance, have Trachleospermum jasminoides and Jasminum nudiflorum together, plus a clematis like Nelly Moser as well - but not C. montana! And I wouldn't mix honeysuckle with other climbers either unless your pergola is enormous - it'll take over.
25 Jul, 2009
i have a small honeysuckle and a clematis together. the clematis flowers first. Up a trellis i have rosa new dawn and clematis victoria.
so in a lng winded way your answer is yes.
25 Jul, 2009
cool
25 Jul, 2009
ooh that is good news cheers everyone
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26 Jul, 2009
your welcome x
26 Jul, 2009
Personally i dont see why you cant although i dont know of any flowering winter climbers but if it was me it would have to be a fragrant one > ive jst recently received a YASMIN TRACHELOSPERMUM for my b,day,a bit slower growing than most but a lovely fragrance & flowers july/august...now ive jst got to find somethingl for it to grow on2....But when all said & done this web site has given me some great ideas, the rest is trial &error for an amatuer like me ;) hope ive helped a little bit.
25 Jul, 2009