{"id":14608,"date":"2012-10-30T01:36:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T08:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14608"},"modified":"2012-10-30T01:36:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T08:36:35","slug":"evergreen-climbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/evergreen-climbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Evergreen Climbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not to everyone&#8217;s taste but Ivy or Hedera species are the most frequently grown, year round, climbing plants. Try these alternatives.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maigraith242\/2520021230\/\" title=\"Kew 056e by Michelle Bartsch, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2038\/2520021230_21925b7ba1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Kew 056e\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>5 Top Evergreen Climbers<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Solanum crispum &#8216; Glasnevin&#8217;<\/strong> is a shrubby climber that needs to be tied in to wire supports. It will repay with prolific blue blossom with yellow stamen during summer and autumn.<br \/>\n<strong>Lonicera henryi<\/strong> has purple flowers followed by small black fruit. It is a good twining and climbing plants to grow up vertical supports.<br \/>\n<strong>Lonicera japonica <\/strong>variety Halliana is another honeysuckle this time with scented yellow flowers. It will only loose the leaves if the winter is exceptionally harsh and cold.<br \/>\n<strong>Trachelospermum Jasminoides<\/strong> is heavily scented when in flower. It grows aerial roots and like most scented climbers prefers a warm south facing wall.<br \/>\n<strong>Clematis armandii <\/strong>flowers in late winter and covers a large area such as a wall or fence clinging with twisting leaf stalks.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rpmarks\/3337353217\/\" title=\"Ivy by R~P~M, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3389\/3337353217_ec6998ee5b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" alt=\"Ivy\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Evergreen Ivy Tips<\/h3>\n<p>Try a variety other than common Ivy such as Hedera colchica &#8216;penata variegata&#8217;. You get better colour or leaf form but retain all the benefits.<br \/>\nIvy provides food and shelter for wildlife and a year round backdrop for your garden.<br \/>\nThe aerial roots should not damage a sound wall but the young rootlets may loosen bad mortar.<br \/>\nThe leaves can be plaited to create wreaths or used as a filler in decorations.<br \/>\nIvy can be grown on steep sloped as ground cover that protects soil from erosion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6252983845\/\" title=\"Ivy on swags, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6057\/6252983845_c8ab86f337.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Ivy\"><\/a><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nPhoto credit<br \/>\nKew 056e by Michelle Bartsch CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<br \/>\nIvy by R~P~M &#8216;Ivy leaves at sunset, Lower Salden Farm, Mursley&#8217; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not to everyone&#8217;s taste but Ivy or Hedera species are the most frequently grown, year round, climbing plants. Try these alternatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trees-and-shrubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}