I have an six foot high fence i want to hide with clematis plants or some other type of climbing foliage.What would you recommend i should plant?If i plant clematis(or anything else) how far apart should i plant them and how would i have to take care of them?..do they require cutting back every year?
Thank you for sharing Ronald.The passion fruit vine is beautiful.The flowers are so pretty.Alas,i live in the UK and our weather is not suited to growing the passion fruit plant.Thank you all the same.
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I’m trying to do the same thing as you. This is the idea I came up with.
Clematis is very nice because it does bloom all season long. But it don’t stay green in the winter.
Plant English ivy. They come in solid green and white and green. You can mix the two. You don’t need any supports for the ivy because it attaches it self right to your fence. It grows little stickies.
So now you have a fence that stay’s green even in the winter. And it grows very fast and spreads really quickly saving you time and money.
Now for some color!
Take the clematis and plant that right in front of the ivy. Let it grow right over it. You can even buy some other flowering vines and climbing roses and have all your colors climb right on top of your Ivy. Your Ivy will be a nice green back drop. Keeping color in your yard year around.
Plant your flowers 3 feet apart. The ivy can be planted at any distance.
The trouble with clematis in this sort of situation, is that they are generally not evergreen.. I would recommend several different varieties of ivy planted about 1.5 metres apart. Then once these are established you could train clematis to grow through the ivies.
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I’m trying to do the same thing as you. This is the idea I came up with.
Clematis is very nice because it does bloom all season long. But it don’t stay green in the winter.
Plant English ivy. They come in solid green and white and green. You can mix the two. You don’t need any supports for the ivy because it attaches it self right to your fence. It grows little stickies.
So now you have a fence that stay’s green even in the winter. And it grows very fast and spreads really quickly saving you time and money.
Now for some color!
Take the clematis and plant that right in front of the ivy. Let it grow right over it. You can even buy some other flowering vines and climbing roses and have all your colors climb right on top of your Ivy. Your Ivy will be a nice green back drop. Keeping color in your yard year around.
Plant your flowers 3 feet apart. The ivy can be planted at any distance.
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Here’s another option.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiYrqucl2vg&feature=related
what kind of fence? clementis climbs better on a trellis or a chain link where it can get its leaves to curl around it does not climb wood slats as well
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Wisteria is beautiful, and with fabulous flowers.
Avoid the hearty and fast-growing Trumpet Vine, because it tends to send out underground runners that end up in your yard.
Morning Glory is beautiful to watch and will be in the fall filled with flowers, but it of course is an annual and even the vines will have to be torn down at the end of winter. It self-seeds enthusiastically and you’ll have them again the following year, however.
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Try planting Cadena-de-Amor if this plant grow in your area. This is a good fence cover, it has a beautiful flowers too.
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From my own experience.
those Gourds are very long and run over 18 feet some of them "Calabash’s" they also have wide leaves~~
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