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Re: Any suggestions for Climbers round a new Pergola?

Dear Anthony,
Do you want to have sun (for warmth/ease in cleaning) in winter?
I've seen a pergola, about 12 ft. x 12 ft., with southern magnolia trained
over it. The trunks and branches are bare in winter, and the flowers are
fragrant when blooming. The large leaves give good shade and are easy to
hose off to cool the area in hot weather.
Elly Bade
 On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Marina &
Anthony Green wrote:

> Dear fellow gardeners,
> 
> A neighbour of mine here in Bari, Southern Italy (at sea level on the
> Adriatic - can anyone tell me what zone this is?) has asked me to help
> him with a pergola he has just built in his garden.
> The pergola is about four metres square on the north west side of the
> garden, fairly sheltered from the sea (which is 200 metres away) by
> other buildings, and then his  railings and pittosporum hedges. The
> pergola has adequate soil around the outside, but I don't know the
> depth. They have two big dogs, too.
> He was just going to put boring old ivy round it, but to return his
> great favour of feeding our dogs every day for the last month, I
> suggested that I would think of a range of climbers that would provide
> him with scent and colour throughout the year, with some deciduous and
> some evergreen.
> I was especially thinking of Lonicera and Jasminum spp., for scent as
> well as Rosa, Wisteria, Plumbago, Clematis, Passiflora etc. for their
> looks. Can anyone recommend the sort of sequence I could get from
> different varieties of these species? How hardy will they be in a long
> hot summer such as this year (over 35° every day for two months with
> typical Mediterranean summer rainfall - just occasional showers when we
> were lucky), with no real frost in the winter (snow every four years or
> so).
> As alternatives, does anyone have any experience with Fremontia,
> Clianthus, Celastrus, Campsis, etc.?
> Any other plants you can recommend?
> 
> Obviously, in the end, the choice will come down to just three or four
> different species, with perhaps more than one variety of, say, Lonicera.
> 
> Look forward to hearing some great ideas!
> 
> Anthony Green
> 
> 
>
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