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By Great

London, United Kingdom

Is there any climbing plant that will grow in very little soil and will grow up a fence to cover it? Thinking off outside my kitchen door. The fence is so bare and ugly. Please not jasmine. We in this house can't stand the smell of it- and dont anyone say sit down!! lol




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Great which direction is it going to be facing and how little soil is there?

8 May, 2010

 

Hedera Sagittifolia would be good, this is a pointed leafed Ivy... Unless you are looking for something with flowers.

8 May, 2010

 

No sorry Bobski2 don't like ivy. My garden faces NNW MG not quite sure what exactly is the direction outside kitchen door, sorry if I sound dumb. What I can say though is its a sheltered spotgetsthe sun, any help?

8 May, 2010

 

What exactly do you mean by "very little soil", Great?

8 May, 2010

 

I did ask that one Bamboo... How much sun does it get Great obviously none in the morning but and hour two hours in the afternoon?

8 May, 2010

 

more like 3/4 hours of sun in afternoon.Want to put the plant at the side of compost bin to hide it a bit, depth of soil is okay, but theres a lot planted near to the bin. So want something kinda bare at the bottom and something that fills out at the top. Could put a plant pot there I suppose, but trying to get away from pots!!

8 May, 2010

 

Passiflora (passion flower) might grow okay there. Needs a support though, like most climbers.

8 May, 2010

 

If you can give it a cool root run you could try a clematis but, again it will need something to twine to.

8 May, 2010

 

Thats okay have some trellis to put on the fence some how

8 May, 2010

 

Clematis are not happy trying to twine to a trellis - think how peas attach themselves and, even those the clematis uses a leaf tendril to cling to the support, they need wires or netting.

8 May, 2010

 

You can buy clematis mesh, comes in a roll or by the metre in garden centres - that'd do for both Passiflora or Clematis.

8 May, 2010

 

Yup

8 May, 2010

 

thanks Bamboo, didn't know about Clematis mesh

9 May, 2010

 

For a quick fix why not try Morning Glory? In the meantime you could plant a clematis but they need a good feed and lots of water. Our neighbour got a fantastic show of Morning glory on a fence that got the sun from about 12 midday to sunset, but you don't seem to have that. Many climbers get rampant over time. Like Canary Ivy, Montana; Passiflora goes silly too after a while. We had Canary Ivy Growing in visibly nil soil where we lived before. It covered up an extremely ugly fence in no time.

9 May, 2010

 

Forgot about morning glory, used to have that in the garden, i like the blue ones best. Thanks Dorjac for jogging my memory. Needs a lot of jogging these days lol

9 May, 2010

How do I say thanks?

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