Easy to grow climbers?

Hi again everyone, I was wondering if anyone could recommend some easy to grow, quick growing climbing plants that will flower & produce a good spread in the first year?

 

Mile a Minute Clematis is the best growing climber I have found

 

Sweetpeas.

The y are annuals but will easily reach over your head in one year.

 

I second this :thumb:

 

Russian Vine will do it but it takes over everything:wink:

 

If your happy with annuals climbing nastiriums will do 6 feet quickly and cover the place in flowers all summer long.

 

Here in Cincinnati, Ohio I can plant Morning Glories in late spring and they will grow five or six meters by fall. They are annuals but they do re-seed. good luck. Rick

 

i grew a cup and saucer climber one year - it was very good and had beautiful flowers.

Loopy

 

Wow, so many suggestions, thanks so much everyone I'm not familiar with all of them so I'll have to search for some images & see which I like best. Is honeysuckle difficult to grow or establish as a climber?

I'm thinking of putting some on an unsightly wall, what would the best method of training them, should I get some trellises?

 

Freedom Spark, Honeysuckle is next to a weed so you should have no problem growing it. It will climb on anything - itself if there is nothing else. You can put up trellis if you want to, or just knock in a couple of vine eyes and a couple of rows of wire. Before you know it you will be out there getting that honeysuckle under control.

 

Its worth thinking about the maintenance next year, if something has grown that much in its first year..how much will you have to cut it back next year and the next and the next.

Last year we planted a Honeysuckle and a Jasmine on either side of a pergola, but we also had hanging baskets of sweet peas and dwarf sunflowers below them to fill the gap whilst the two climbers mature.

Sweet peas will grow to 6-7 foot and you can cut the flowers for the house, the more you pick the more that will grow and they smell wonderful.

Steve...

 

Everything recommended looks beautiful, it's difficult to decide. The sweet peas look and sound great, I also like the look of morning glories & I'd definitely like to try some honeysuckle! I had bought some seeds - nastiriums trailing mix, to grow for baskets but I looked at the back of the pack and it mentioned they'd be suitable for 'summer screening' so could they be trained up the wall to climb, or are there more specific varieties of climbing nastiriums?

 

I also recommend sweetpeas - easy to grow from seed or the seedlings sold in garden centres are fairly cheap. If you can't be bothered with annuals, there's also perennial sweetpeas that come in white as well as the pink/mauve bog standard colour. No scent but easy as anything to grow and will scramble over a fence/trellis in no time.

 

Is 'mile a minute clematis' the small pink flowered one?

 

sorry to high jack, but do morning glories grow well in troughs attached to the wall?