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Vines
Every garden needs some vertical interest, and the best way to get it is with flowering vines. Excellent for a shady spot is hydrangea petiolaris – the climbing hydrangea – which is growing up the walls of my garage. It didn’t seem to do much for three or four years, and suddenly it was reaching for the roof! The flowers have a delicious scent to welcome you home in the spring and early summer, and to prolong the floral show I have a passiflora caerulea that grows up through the hydrangea branches and blooms all summer and on until November.
Many clematis do well with less sun, and for me these include the c.montana “Elizabeth”, “Broughton Star” and “Freda”, and the large-flowered cultivars “Guernsey Cream” and “Hagley Hybrid”.
