10 Climbing Flowering Plants to Glam-Up Your Garden
Dhanashree Khadke
Climbers are not just great space-savers, but also add to the elegance of any space. They are a great option to add a vertical splash of color to your garden.
Climbers are not restricted to gardens, but are also used to cover walls, poles, fences, and for beautifying arches as well.
Bougainvillea
It is an attractive woody climber that gives beautiful flowers of different hues like red, pink, magenta, white, and peach.
You can plant bougainvilleas in the monsoon and expect their spectacular flowers in the summer.
The best part of this climber is, it has extremely low-maintenance and grows rapidly.
Passionflower or Passiflora
Passionflower is a semi-woody climber, popular for its intricately patterned flowers. The most common colors of its flowers are blue, purple, and magenta.
Passionflowers bloom from mid-summer until frost.
Climbing Roses
It doesn't have tendrils to cling to, but it is a taller breed of roses whose long canes can be aligned to a structure to form a climber.
Climbing roses come in a variety of shades of red, maroon, white, pink, yellow, orange.
It needs full sun to partial shade and moderate water to grow well.
Star Jasmine
It is a beautiful vine that blooms tiny star-shaped flowers with an enchanting fragrance.
Star jasmine grows faster in full sun exposure and blooms in late spring to early summer.
Moonflower
It is a unique climber that produces white-colored blooms at midnight, which closes early in the morning.
Its pleasing aroma is just like an icing on the cake for your garden.
The plant grows quickly in full sun exposure.
Honeysuckle
Honeysuckles take your garden to gorgeous heights with their scented yellow and red tubular flowers that attract hummingbirds.
It also produces berries that are loved by birds but poisonous to humans!
Mandevilla
Mandevilla or Rocktrumpets are excellent choices to add a splash of color to entrances, pillars, or balconies.
It produces large blooms with attractive shades of red, white, pink.