Climbing vines in your garden
Climbing vines give additional height, texture, color and first of all even romance to your garden or summerhouse. Climbers, especially flowering ones, make a great addition to your flower garden if you have a fence or gratings for them to clamber over. They look particularly effective in pergolas.
The most popular climbing vine is Clematis, with many varieties of magnificent flowers.
One of the best features of climbing vines is their ability to hide all the stuff you’d rather not to see, like road outside your garden or a neighbor’s garage.
You can easily create your own style in your garden using trellis, an arbor, a rustic willow or wrought iron support, a fence, or any other constructions. Just make sure that the support for your climber is strong enough and harmonizes with your garden design.
Climbing vines either twine around their supports or hold fast to upright surfaces. There are also vines that grasp with tendrils or petioles, such as clematis, or those with thorns that hook onto supports, as climbing roses do.
When looking for a climbing vine, choose the right one and put it in the right place: sun lovers in sun, shady ones in shade and choose the moist soil for a vine that requires it.