Climbing plants

Wisteria needs to be pruned twice a year to keep it in good shape and to ensure abundant flowers. Here's how to do it.

Although known as vigorous plants, Clematis montana can be also be medium sized or even compact. Here are some recommended varieties from the National Collection at the garden of National Collection holder, Val Le Neville-Parry.

Plant expert John Hoyland recommends 14 of the best winter-flowering clematis to grow in your garden. Photographs by Jason Ingram.

Choose from our selection of best climbing plants and add vertical interest to walls and trellises or allow to scramble over other plants in borders. Plantsman and garden designer Rory Dusoir gives his top recommendations.

Give your plants the support they need to help them flourish in the garden. Here are a few of the best wall trellis designs for climbing plants in 2025

Annual climbers can be sown and grown in a year and are an easy and colourful way to cover walls or trellises. Plant expert Matthew Biggs chooses 21 of his favourite annual climbers

Our selection of the best garden ladders, from classic styles to fold away and adjustable designs.

Think of clematis and you probably conjure up the large-flowered types of early summer. But most flower from midsummer to early autumn, with tiny, bell-shaped flowers. Garden designer and writer Noël Kingsbury lists 15 favourites. Photographs by Rachel Warne

Discover the best English ivies for your garden, recommended by plant expert Andy McIndoe. Photographs Dianna Jazwinski.

Clematis is a much-loved climbing plant that is suitable for gardens of all sizes. Clematis expert Raymond Evison lists his all-time favourite clematis for the garden

A garden is only as good as its plants. Here four renowned garden designers choose their favourite plant suppliers.

Choose scented flowers to give your garden extra appeal. Here's 26 favourites to give you fragrance right through the seasons

The People's Choice Award had the public voting for the latest varieties of clematis