12 hardy climbing plants: perennial flowering climbing plants

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ppearances, because it comes from a varietal plant family. A favorite of growers, she manages to regularly appear in stores with new flowers. With it, every garden owner can easily fulfill all flower preferences. However, the leafless clematis plant is not worth a second glance in winter. She’s just a hardy summer climber, so to speak.

• almost all flower colors are represented
• there are small-flowered and large-flowered varieties
• simple clematis and double hybrids
• the delicate tendrils need a climbing aid

While all members of the family are perennial, their winter hardiness varies. Be sure to consider this aspect when selecting the variety, otherwise you will have to regularly provide winter protection in autumn.

Goat leaf

The honeysuckle genus offers some beautiful perennial climbers that are not afraid of heights, even at 8m. They have particularly lovely little flowers that are difficult to describe in words. These often also give off a pleasant scent.

• produces abundant flowers from early summer
• the flower color is usually yellow or red
• during the flowering period many moths are attracted
• Decorative black berries follow in autumn

While many climbing plants lose their attractive appearance in winter, the evergreen honeysuckle, Lonicera henryi, does not like to part with its foliage. The hardy climbing plant even climbs shady areas of the garden where other flowering climbers prefer to avoid.

Yellow winter jasmine

Not many words need be said about the flower color of Jasminum nudiflorum , as the botanically correct name is yellow jasmine, because the name gives it away. Suffice it to say that they are small and come in thousands. The name also announces that this flowering perennial climber is naturally designed for the cold winter.

• the only hardy “real” jasmine in this country
• can grow up to 3 m high and wide
• is an early bloomer
• in mild winters the flowers appear as early as December
• Flowers do not open at the same time
• Flowering lasts until April

If a climbing existence is destined for it, the yellow winter jasmine definitely needs a climbing aid. Unfortunately, this enchanting jasmine variety of all things does not smell, and we will wait in vain for fruits in our latitudes. Still a worthwhile purchase.

laburnum

When there are no small children playing or pets roaming the garden, a poisonous perennial creeper may be given a chance. We’re talking about magnificently blooming laburnum, bot. Labumum.

• yellow flowers are arranged in clusters
• can be admired from April to June
• in sunny locations it is floriferous
• flowering is modest in shady places

The Laburnum can be drawn on both walls and rose arches. You can’t go wrong with its cut. As a hardy climbing plant, it stays with us for years.

climbing hydrangea

The hydrangea family also has some climbing descendants to offer. Her flowers are in no way inferior to other varieties in terms of beauty. Although the climbing hydrangea, bot. Hydrangea petiolaris, slow growing, eventually manages to cover a house to the roof with greenery. The maximum growth height of approx. 15 m can hardly be imitated by any other plant.

• the flowers, so-called umbrella panicles, bloom from May to July
• the flower color is white
• Inflorescences are up to 25 cm in diameter
• the hydrangea gives off a sweet scent

After planting, however, we have to wait patiently for about five years, during which the perennial climbing hydrangea withholds its flowers from us. To compensate for this, this hardy plant can also be planted in shady locations.

climbing rose

Everyone knows them and has admired them before, if only in someone else’s garden. The climbing rose is particularly popular for archways and as a flowering wall embellishment. It is a hardy, perennial and incredibly versatile when it comes to flower production. Hardly any flower species has inspired as many breeders worldwide as the rose.

• almost every natural flower color is represented
• only the blue roses cannot make
• there are small and large flowers
• single or double flower heads

Depending on the location, climbing roses bloom early in the year and give us their last specimens in autumn. In order for your long shoots to stand optimally, you need a climbing aid.

Passionsblume

Almost all of the 500 different species of passion flowers are not hardy. That doesn’t matter, because three hardy varieties of this climbing plant are enough for us in this country. Its flowers are among the most magnificent of all passion flowers. Each flower is a true work of art and cannot be compared to any other type of flower. These are the three species by name:

• Blaue Passionsblume – Passiflora caerulea
• Fleischgewordene Passionsblume – Passiflora incarnata
• Yellow passion flower – Passiflora lutea

The Passiflora incarnata tolerates cold down to -20 degrees Celsius, while the other two varieties are more sensitive. But here, a sheltered spot and suitable hibernation measures can keep some of the cold away.

pipe winch

The perennial, flowering climber originally comes from the forests of North America. The American pipevine is called Aristolochia macrophylla in botany. It forms a dense foliage of beautiful, large, heart-shaped leaves. In autumn they can turn golden yellow.

• in spring it adorns itself with small flowers
• however, they are exceptionally shaped
• in autumn capsule fruits can ripen

The American pipevine tolerates sun to shade but not excessive moisture.

Sternjasmin

The star jasmine, bot. Trachelospermum jasminoides is only conditionally hardy. It tolerates frost down to around -10 degrees Celsius. In mild regions, it can survive the winter outdoors in sheltered places with the kind support of its owner. Otherwise, he has to make do with a bucket that he can use to move outside in the warm season.

• bears innumerable small, white flowers
• wonderfully scented with jasmine
• Flowering time is April to August
• the green leaves are unfortunately poisonous

The star jasmine flowers as numerous as there are stars in the sky. What’s more, its flowers are star-shaped. Therefore, the name for this flowering plant is absolutely appropriate.