northeast walls

Hi there. What will grow well (or simply survive)on a cold north-east wall?

 

Cotoniaster, pyracantha, ivey - just for starters anyway.

 

thanks chuck

 

Hydrangea anomala used to be called H. petiolaris, Clematis montana forms.

 

thankyou palustris.when did the name change and do you know why?

 

Not sure when it changed, but all name changes like that are because botanists working on plant nomenclature discover that a plant is either wrongly named ie Geranium should be called Pelargonium OR they discover that a plant name was published before the one by which the plant is now known. Under the rules, the first proper published name of a plant is the one by which it must be known (except a few historical plants like Roses).

 

thats marvellous palustris, now i'm all genned up, thankyou.

 

They change which family plants are in too, just to help!! It's all because they can do much more sophisticated tests now, and the plants' DNA shows to which family they belong, which doesn't always agree with the observations of the naturalists who first described the plants. All good fun! :confused:

 

Now I don't care what it is called, but I have a black leafed one (hydranger that is whatever it is called) and it was moved last year to dark north corner and this spring looks to be leafing up well.
I did have bog standard green one on my pergola, but it did not surviv the builders - always did very well before building work though.

 

thanks everyone - big help.