Climbing Plants

Here is a list of our climbing plants chosen for scent, medicinal and environmental properties:

  • Aristolochia baetica
  • Aristolochia clematitis
  • Bryonia dioica
  • Campsis grandiflora
  • Campsis radicans
  • Clematis vitalba
  • Codonopsis tangshen
  • Echinocistus lobata
  • Gelsemium sempervirens
  • Hedera helix (wild form)
  • Humulus lupulus
  • Humulus lupulus aureus
  • Ipomoea purpurea
  • Jasminum beesianum
  • Jasminum officinalis
  • Jasminum polyanthum
  • Jasminum sambac
  • Lathyrus latifolius
  • Lathyrus odoratus (annual, supposedly "wild" form)
  • Lathyrus tuberosus
  • Lonicera periclymenum (wild form)
  • Lonicera periclymenum var belgica
  • Parthenocissus quinquefolia
  • Passiflora coerulea
  • Passiflora incana
  • Periploca graeca
  • Polygonum multiflorum
  • Pueraria lobata
  • Rhodochiton atrosanguineus
  • Rosa canina (wild form)
  • Rosa sp, we normally have a few interesting climbers and ramblers on their own roots
  • Rubia peregrina
  • Schizandra chinense
  • Smilax aspera
  • Tamus communis
  • Vitis vinifera purpurea

Always garden in three dimensions, make sure you have lots of climbers or raised beds so that you have nice smells at nose level, after all you don't smell with your feet do you?

Some climbers denied anything to climb, make quite effective ground cover, however be warned, many of these have interestingly toxic properties