Jasmine on a living willow structure

The living willow play house/den I built for the lad is now establishing well, being just over 2 years old now.

I'm now thinking about the next phase of its development. Given that jasmine will take another couple of years to establish, making the willow structure 4 years old by the time the jasmine is established, can I get away with planting jasmine all around the bottom of the structure such that it climbs it?

On the plus side, the jasmine will help to further bind the structure together, so that I can start thinking about cutting the tape and tie wraps off that currently hold some of the willow sticks where I want them. The jaz will also add flowers and fragrance, and being evergreen in a mild climate, it wont just look like a pile of sticks in winter.

The only down side I can think of is that the jasmine will compete with the willow, but I'm thinking that the top growth of the willow will always win the competition for sunlight, and as long as I keep the whole thing fed and watered, there shouldn't be much competition to worry about there either.

Thoughts?

 

Hmmm... I'm thinking the Willow will just engulf the Jazmine but to be honest I don't really know...

 

Probly should have mentioned, the willow doesn't put on that much growth near the bottom. Its a hybrid willow bred for its rapid vertical growth, so the roof of the willow house is very dense, but the base is pretty sparse.

 

That sounds OK then ,once established it'll make a good solid structure

 

I've just been looking up jasmine, and was surprised to see that everyone is saying its not very hardy and needs winter protection. This is confusing me because I had some for years in a container at my last house, and granted it was usually warmer there than here, being 100 miles further south, inland and in a south facing garden, but it was also in the Don valley, carrying winter winds down from the Pennines which sometimes meant absolutely bitterly cold temperatures, and it survived.

 

Jasminum officinalis is pretty hardy but there are some very similar ones which aren't hardy, the ones they sell in hooped gift baskets, for example.