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  1. Nick44

    Nick44 Apprentice Gardener

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    I am a complete novice when it comes to gardening and trying to get a garden established for the first time.

    My most pressing need is to create privacy, to which end I have put up trellis panels around the top of my garden wall and fence. I have two questions.

    Firstly, what would be the most suitable plants given that I want a fairly quick result and the trellis is at a height of about 6 feet. At the moment I'm thinking about clematis and honeysuckle.

    Secondly, all the advice I read about climbing plants is to prune the growing tips at the end of year 1 to encourage the plants to throw out new shoots. However, I want my plants to grow up and not out, at least until they've got to the height of the trellis.

    Any advice would be gratefully received.
     
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    Hi Nick & [​IMG].. I think your ideas of Clematis & Honeysuckles are good.. Why not have at least 1 evergreen Clematis, Same with your Honey suckle.. You could have early & late flowring types so you always had interest..

    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Early flowering types....

    [/FONT]    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Clematis Montana
    [/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Clematis macropetala
    [/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Clematis 'The President'
    [/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Wisteria
    [/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Summer Jasmine
    [/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Honeysuckle[/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The plants in this group should be cut back or pruned immediately after flowering.

    Late Flowering types....

    [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Clematis jackmanii
    [/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Clematis 'Ville de Lyon'
    [/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Clematis 'Hagley Hybrid'
    [/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Trumpet Vine
    [/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Russian Vine
    [/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Winter Jasmine
    [/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Chilean Glory Vine
    [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The plants in this group should be cut back in the spring.

    By choosing early & late flowering you would be pruning at different times & the new growth would be thick & ready on each plant type by the ext flowering time so you would always have some privacy...:thumb: Hope that is some help...
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    Nick44 Apprentice Gardener

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    Thanks for your advice (although I'm a little dubious about Russian Vine).

    I'm sure a bit of experimentation will be required!

    Nick44
     
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    If you put in a fast climber you will be cutting it forever.

    could you fix some sort of tubs to the posts just below trellis height and plant in those? That way you will cut down on 7 feet of growing right away.
     
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