Climbing Plants – The Green Mountaineers in the Garden

Climbing plants have a truly magical quality about them. No wonder, as climbing plants automatically bring to mind Sleeping Beauty, waiting for her prince surrounded by roses and thorns.

Anyone who brings this fairytale atmosphere into their own garden will enjoy these green mountaineers for a long time. Climbing plants create a lot of excitement in the garden.

If you're not entirely sure whether you want climbing plants in your garden, you can try out climbing pros on a trial basis. Annual climbing plants are particularly well-suited for short-term greening with climbers, and they spread rapidly over several meters in just one season. Annual climbing plants can be used in just as many versatile ways as their perennial siblings. Sweet pea, nasturtium, and Black-Eyed Susan are especially good for beds with climbing aids. Maurandya and morning glory look great on house walls and provide attractive flowering privacy screens. Ornamental gourds, cup-and-saucer vines, Japanese hops, and scarlet runner beans can climb entire gazebos and pergolas in one season.

Anyone who wants to green their garden long-term with climbing beauties should opt for perennial climbing plants. There are quite a few of these that may not always climb as fast as their annual counterparts, but they will reach their goal. And that goal is: the higher, the better! Wisteria, Clematis, and Honeysuckle are among the absolute stars of climbing plants. But there's one climbing plant that outshines them all: the climbing rose. The more climbing opportunities climbing plants get, the higher, wider, and denser they will grow. Climbing roses and Clematis best unfold their full beauty when they can go as high as possible.

Climbing plants make shady spots in the garden green! Even if the selection of climbing plants that thrive in the shade is rather limited, they do exist—climbing plants that bring a bit of color even to the shadiest corner. The climbing hydrangea prefers shade much more than sun, just like its ground-dwelling sisters. Walls up to 10 meters high are no problem for the climbing hydrangea, thanks to its adhesive roots, making it perfect for greening shady house walls. But the Dutchman's pipe, Virginia creeper, and ivy are also good sources of green color in the shade.