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Create pretty vertical displays in your home’s backyard with flowering climbing plants that ramble up fences, lattices and frames and add colour to your outdoor space.
A vigorous climbing plant with colourful bracts (modified leaves) in pink, purple, red, orange, apricot, yellow and white, tropical bougainvillea is one of the most popular plants that climb. Likes full sun and is evergreen in warm climes but can go dormant in cold winter areas. Will grow up to 12 metres; however, dwarf varieties offer a manageable, low-maintenance size (up to 1.5 metres) for smaller gardens. Keep this vining climber at its best with a high-potassium fertiliser in spring and trim in autumn as part of your gardening maintenance, but beware the spined branches (wear gloves!).
Reaching three to five metres tall if supported, this evergreen twining flowering climber has dainty, golden-yellow perfumed blooms over the warmer months, bringing delightful fragrance to your home’s front garden or backyard. Grow in full sun and feed in spring with a flower-specific fertiliser. This beauty grows well vertically over pergolas, arches, lattices and fences but works as a groundcover in garden beds, too. Gardeners beware: all parts of this plant are toxic, so keep away from children and pets.
This classic spring-flowering climber has a profusion of white, fragrant blooms and glossy dark-green leaves. Plant in full sun or shady spots, in well-draining soil, and let it grow and creep over fences, pergolas, frames and garden arches, or up a column. Tough and low maintenance, the star jasmine plant makes a great groundcover, too. Prune after flowering for a dense habit. Tolerant of dry conditions once established.
This evergreen native climber has white or pale-pink trumpet-shaped flowers in spring and summer. It prefers warm, frost-free zones. Plant in full sun or part shade, or try growing it over garden fences, arches, pergolas and walls. After flowering, prune to maintain shape and size, or it may reach up to five metres. Protect young plants from frost. Once established, it’s a low water user, unless in a hot, very dry spot.
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