A well-groomed site, decorated with many green spaces and framed with an openwork fence, which seems to be woven from leaves and fancy flowers – the pride of any owner. The climbing plants for the fence seem to have been specially created by nature in order to become a worthy decoration of the site, to change and transform the face of the garden. Climbing plants are an important element in landscaping a site, as they can bring greenery and flowering to places where other plantings would not have enough space.
Fence climbing plants are versatile gardening elements. Indeed, with their help, you can solve several design problems at once:
- Decorative. Curly perennials are able not only to “dress” a fence: they decorate low buildings and fences, as well as openwork pergolas, trellises and arches.
- Camouflage. Weaving plants are designed to decorate unsightly exterior elements. They allow you to transform unsightly barn walls, hiding small surface errors, compost containers and barrels for collecting rainwater.
- Covering. The rapidly growing plants that hang around the walls of the fence help protect from street dust and noise, providing the owners of the site with peace and quiet. They are planted along fences, open areas and gazebos for saving shade and pleasant coolness.
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It should also be noted that loaches visually increase the area of the garden.
With the help of climbing plants, you can create a multi-level structure, thanks to which visually increase the area of the garden
The most attractive and popular among most gardeners representatives of the climbing flora are climbing roses. The variety of choice of these plants, which have the most incredible colors and shapes, is simply amazing.
By choosing a successful combination of varieties, you can create an unusually beautiful fence that will delight you with chic flowering and wondrous aroma for more than one year
An unpretentious plant to care for can even be planted on its site by a novice gardener: it is enough to plant a bush in a lighted area with fertile soil, and then only periodically fertilize and water the rose abundantly. Although climbing roses do not need special care, in the autumn period with the onset of cold weather, they still require pruning and additional shelter.
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Most varieties of climbing roses bloom in the first half of June, delighting with an unusually beautiful flowering for 3-4 weeks. The rest of the months, the fence is decorated only with dense foliage of plants.
The climbing beauty of New Down, whose three-meter lashes are dotted with many delicate pink flowers, is capable of blooming throughout the summer
Sun-loving plants show the greatest decorativeness and splendor of flowering only in well-lit areas.
Clematis is no less popular among the owners of suburban areas. Large star-shaped flowers that unfold on the shoots in the first weeks of summer do not cease to delight with their marvelous flowering until autumn.
Beautiful flowers, densely covering the shoots, are able to create a continuous carpet, dotted with “stars” of white, pink, blue and purple shades
Clematis need fertile soil and adequate lighting of the site. With the creation of optimal conditions and skillful pruning of shoots, the flowering of clematis can be shed until the first frost.
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Among the charming exotic plants, a number of varieties can be distinguished, adapted to the changeable harsh winters. The main ones are: the long-blooming ‘Ballerina’ with elegant snow-white flowers, ‘Nellie Moser’ with pale pink petals decorated with a bright crimson stripe, ‘Nikolay Rubtsov’, the petals of which are framed by several contours, which creates the effect of a ‘flower in a flower’.
Creeping vines are ideal for decorating a fence. With the help of small sucker-roots, they are able to conquer any height, freely covering a solid fence of 3-4 meters. The most picky among the creeping vines: petiolate hydrangea, honeysuckle and kampsis. Having planted them in spring or autumn along a fence or support, the very next season you can observe how powerful stems of vines confidently climb a vertical surface, covering the fence with a green carpet.
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Petiolate hydrangea is a beautiful liana-shaped shrub that freely reaches a height of 8 to 20 meters.
Against the background of green ovoid leaves, pinkish-white flowers collected in paniculate inflorescences look spectacular
Among the most attractive varieties are: “Miranda”, the leaves of which are decorated with a yellow-cream border, as well as oak-leaved hydrangea with lush cone-shaped inflorescences and dense foliage, which turn into rich purple hues in autumn.
Wisteria is perfect for decorating sturdy concrete, stone and brick fences. A light-loving liana, decorated with white, lilac or pink clusters of miniature flowers, can transform even the most ordinary-looking fence into a spectacular fence of the site.
The marvelous flowers collected in racemose inflorescences, blooming in early May, completely obscure the foliage and cover the fence
In landscape design, the most widespread are:
- chinese wisteria – reaches a height of 20 meters. In the summer months, it is decorated with loose clusters with pale purple flowers exuding a fruity aroma;
- profusely flowering wisteria – differs in the larger size of ovoid leaves and the splendor of lowered white inflorescences. The branches of the plant are originally twisted clockwise;
- japanese wisteria – one of the most spectacular lianas, the branches of which reach a height of 8-10 meters, twisting around the support in a clockwise direction. Dense inflorescences with flowers of lilac-blue and white shades reach a length of 50 cm.
The heat-loving liana kampsis is known to many gardeners for its unusual orange flowers, which outwardly resemble small gramophone. Blooming in the second half of June, the liana pleases with an elegant flowering until the beginning of autumn. She is not afraid of any adversity: the liana calmly tolerates frosts down to -20 ° C.
The main advantage of this perennial vine is gas and smoke resistance, as well as excellent resistance to urban conditions.
When growing a plant, one should take into account its ability to grow rapidly, reclaiming territory from weaker “neighbors”. Timely pruning and fertilization will keep the plant compact and decorative throughout the season.
The unpretentious honeysuckle plant can not only decorate the fence, but also bring a special aura, create a mood. Honeysuckle is rightfully considered the champion of unpretentiousness. The curly beauty prefers sunny areas, but also tolerates partial shade. It is not demanding on the composition of the soil, but gladly responds with rapid growth and abundant flowering to fertilizing with organic fertilizer.
Emitting a subtle sweetish aroma during flowering, honeysuckle is able to make a suburban area a semblance of paradise
Honeysuckle is unusually beautiful during the flowering period, which falls on the first month of summer. Collected in inflorescences, graceful flowers can have the most incredible shades, starting with pale white and yellowish and ending with a spectacular combination of pink and orange. The most attractive varieties are: ´Serotina´ with bright red and crimson flowers, Korolkov’s honeysuckle with pale pink inflorescences, ´Grahm Thomas´ with cream and golden yellow flowers.
The girlish grapes, which do not require special conditions for growing, are attractive, first of all, for their openwork foliage, which in the autumn period, as if under the brush of an artist, is painted in amazingly beautiful shades of burgundy and red.
Deciduous liana can grow up to 4 meters in just one year, covering a large area and forming a dense fence of plants
From spring to autumn, fences entwined with graceful shoots with openwork foliage look just great. Caring for the plant consists only in timely pruning, which prevents excessive growth and thickening of the vines.
Rapidly growing ivy is a popular landscaping element. In terms of vitality and unpretentiousness, ivy can give odds to any climbing plant.
An evergreen plant that forms curly thickets, is able to maintain an attractive decorative appearance all year round. Ivy is great for temperate, mild climates
The walls of the fence overgrown with ivy act as an excellent backdrop for spring-blooming daffodils and tulips or annuals: gladioli, coreopsis, roses.
