hi im wanting to build a purgular this year soon and im wanting to grow something that smells nice.Being new to gardening im not to sure what to plant im thinking wisteria/sweet peas /clamatis/honnysuckle/ any ideas would be great thanks...daz
If you make it a good strong one, that'll be ok, Daz, as wisterias are hefty plants. Honeysuckles can be too! Don't forget roses! :D IF you go for that, though, make sure you get a climber, not a rambler - that would be too much!! My personal favourite, felicite at perpetue - lovely flowers and the scent - gorgeous! http://images.google.com/images?q=felicite%20et%20perpetue&hl=en-GB&sourceid=gd&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2006-49,GGLD:en-GB&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi How about jasmine? That has a lovely scent too. the winter flowering one is great for winter colour.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plant_finder/plant_pages/430.shtml and for spring/summer, the clotted cream is gorgeous, and scented http://plants.thompson-morgan.com/uk/en/product/3409/1?SA=1303 If you're reasonable sheltered there's always passion flower. There are lots of climbers, including some that generally would just grow as an annual, like the scented sweet-peas you mention (there are perennial ones, btw - but they're usually not scented) I'm thinking of LoL's favourite cup and saucer vine (cobaea scandens) http://seeds.thompson-morgan.com/us/product/1356/1 the chilean glory vine, http://www.fothergills.co.uk/en/eccremocarpus-tresco-mixed-chilean-glory-vine--1260.aspx canary creeper, http://www.rainyside.com/features/plant_gallery/vines/Tropaeolum_peregrinum.html and so on. Some are scented and some aren't - but certainly a splash of colour. Then there's one of my favourites - the Tropaeolum speciosum - but that likes to climb up other plants. I use it a lot in garden designing, as it's a glorious red colour, with vivid blue shiny berries afterwards. It particularly likes acid soils though, so it may not be ideal for you. http://www.fothergills.co.uk/en/tropaeolum-speciosum-2321.aspx I'll edit this shortly to put in a few links, but if you google on any of the names, you'll get all the info you need, including where to get them. [ 03. March 2007, 11:36 AM: Message edited by: dendrobium ]
Ooh, some good choices & links there dendy.. I have a couple to add.. Clematis armandii Appleblossom An evergreen Clematis with shiny green, slightly bronze foliage, accompanied by vanilla scented, pink blushed blooms from early spring onwards. or Clematis flammula This wonderful Clematis can produce thousands of pure white, starry flowers at any time. The unusual almond scent will pervade your borders. Ideal for walls, fences or twining through trees. or Fuchsia Lady Boothby. It is a hardy Perennial Apparently the world's only climbing fuchsia. Lady Boothby was bred from an original Brazilian species in 1939 and named after the founder of the British Fuchsia Society. Bright two-tone flowers adorn its red stems that stop at nothing when it comes to climbing! Provide a little support and it'll clothe trellis, arches wall and fences in no time at all. Apart from being extremely igorous it's also exceptionally hardy, so you can look forward to repeat performances year after year. I know these are all sold by Thompson & Morgan, but you will find them elsewhere..
If you are going to walk through your Pergola, then think twice about the use of roses. I have just removed most of ours, simply because of the thorns and the injuries they have caused.
Wow lots of ideas thanx guys ill have a look on google tonight.Yea mate ill be walking throught it.thanx again guys for your help...daz
Oh wow dendro! that was some list and advice. well done. There's only one more I would ad to the list, and thats Akebia quintata. Semi evergreen, spring flowering, whiffy too. Although i'm glad the chocolate i eat doesn't smell like it. PHEWWY
I never remember the Akebia..... maybe because I'm trying to avoid chocolate?? :rolleyes: Palustris has a point..... but I had that particular rose over mine, and it was lovely - although come to think of it, probably be better to avoid that one - we had a BIG arch, and it could go further - it's actually a rambler - I'd forgotten that! :eek: Lovely, though! This is a close-up of my one And here's a pic I took of the Tropaeolum speciosum at the Botanics in Edinburgh - grows like mad there..... through all the plants, up trees, absolutely everywhere!
Marley - forgot about that fuchsia! I've ordered some from T+M arriving April, they say - I think my customers will like the idea of something new - but I'm not so sure myself, as it's bound to be as dead-looking as ordinary fuschias in the winter :( Still, I suppose you could grow something else up it, like one the smaller evergreen clematis cultivars. That would work! I like your suggestions - but I prefer the leaves on the "Early Sensation" type - purely personal preference there - the scent on the armandii is fantastic! :D Daz - you could always make a nice wide pergola!! :rolleyes:
Good Luck with your choosing D&D...!!! Well, yes you do have a point about it dying back, dendy, but down here, anyway, there are always some leaves on it somewhere, but with the evergreen Clem rastling around amongst it you don't notice it too much.... I just love your rose pic,it looks so delidious you can almost smell it...!!!! :D Love the way the Tropaeolum is rastling around as well.... :D
Thanx marley yea a wide choice lol.just been to lidle some bargains got some fruit trees do you know if all fruit trees can be grown up a fence?Also got a climbing rose [queen of england]�£1.99 bargain thanx mate...daz
