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Evergreen climbers

Almost always bought to hide something — a chain-link fence, a neighbour's extension, a bin store — which is a job a deciduous climber does for seven months of the year and abandons for the five when the garden is most exposed. The list is short and that is the finding: most of the climbers people plant for screening are deciduous.

How this list was built

Generated from the catalogue by the same engine that powers What can I grow? — 7 of the 12 climbers qualify. It is published because it names a question people ask, returns enough plants to be useful, does not return most of the group it is about, and rests on fields that are actually populated. Lists that fail any of those are on the coverage page instead.

7 plants
PlantTypeLightSpacingMin. pot depthIn a container
Armand clematisClematis armandiiOrnamentalSome care neededFull sun, Partial shade250–350 cm60 cmmarginal
Evergreen climbing hydrangeaPileostegia viburnoidesOrnamentalSome care neededFull shade, Dappled shade, Partial shade150–250 cm50 cmmarginal
Henry's honeysuckleLonicera henryiOrnamentalStraightforwardFull shade, Dappled shade, Partial shade, Full sun200–300 cm50 cmworkable
HoyaHoya carnosaHouseplantSome care neededFull sun, Partial shade—12 cmwell suited
IvyHedera helixOrnamentalStraightforwardFull shade, Dappled shade, Partial shade, Full sun100–200 cm50 cmworkable
PassionflowerPassiflora caeruleaOrnamentalStraightforwardFull sun, Partial shade200–300 cm50 cmworkable
Star jasmineTrachelospermum jasminoidesOrnamentalSome care neededFull sun, Partial shade150–250 cm50 cmwell suited

This is one cut through climbers, which compares every one of them on foliage, size and container suitability — including the ones this list rules out, and why.