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What about a Honeysuckle? or some Clematis? Or both, of course. If you choose an evergreen Honeysuckle, the laeves won't drop in the pond.

Any of the group 1 Clematis are fast growing, Montanas White or pink. cover very quickly could put one of each and the birds love them for cover.

Or a Parthenocissus - lovely autumn colour too.

Hi, I would grow Clematis montana var.rubens'Tetrarose'.
Masses of dark rosy-mauve flowers in late spring through to early summer, with bronz foliage it's vigorous grows up to about 7.5m and tough any aspect. Hope this helps all the best SueB

... or C. montana 'Broughton Star' which has double deep pink flowers and bronze leaves.

now you all got me thinking spoiled for choice are all these ok for a first time gardener im a bit heavy handed i always thought of clamatis as being delicate ,ive got a clamatis not sure of the name but it has flowers like potato plants very fast grower i brought one last year from morrisons about 2 foot or just under its easy 12 foot now thanks ill look into all these

ups forgot something as anyone got any photo of all these climbers love to see what they look like in your gardens

Clematis is quite easy to grow I would say the three golden rules are Never plant on chalky soil they don’t like it always plant where they have a minimum of 2 feet.
depth for roots to grow down and plant with the compost level no more than 8cm below the soil level.
You describe another clematis you bought as having a flower that looks like a potato flowers.Are you sure it’s not a Solanum. It's evergreen and gorws like crazy! small star shape flowers white or purple with yellow centre.

sueb u might be rite there the wind must of blown away that label ha ha ha but it is ever green with white small flowers it just more or less looks like potato flowers not to good at the names sorry

Look in the garden pictures under S page 2 you will find Solanum!

Yes, Juliano - check out my 'garden' section on my page and you'll find lots of photos of my Clematis, including C. montana 'Broughton Star'.

Your climber does sound like a Solanum! Did it come through the winter OK? Mine suffered a bit, but it's still alive, so I hope it will grow back. I've just pruned it.

yes its ok but leaves are dropping of some ends went black so i pruned it back but dont they grow