3.7 Climbers and wall shrubs

Question 1

Definition of wall shrub and climber

Answer 1

Wall shrub requires training - may benefit from support of wall, or warmth or serving decorative purpose

Climber - modifications to climb

Question 2

Name

Answer 2

Wisteria floribunda

a vigorous deciduous climber with pinnate leaves and, in early summer, fragrant, pea-like, violet-blue, pink or white flowers in racemes 30cm or longer

Question 3

Name

Answer 3

Lathyrus oderatus

An annual that climbs to about 2m using tendrils. The flowers, produced in summer and early autumn, are 3.5cm across, strongly-scented, with wine-red standard petals and purple wings and keels. Hundreds of cultivars have been raised

Question 4

Name

Answer 4

Lonicera periclymenum

A twining deciduous climber with oval leaves. Flowers are two lipped, long, yellow and white trumpets which are sometimes tinged red. Clusters of glossy, red berries follow

Question 5

Name

Answer 5

Clematis montana

A vigorous deciduous species, reaching 7-12m if left unchecked. Plants are smothered in small, single, white flowers in late spring; leaves often have a bronze or purple hue when they first emerge before turning green

alkaline soil

Question 6

Name

Answer 6

Hedera helix

A vigorous, self-clinging climber with lobed glossy, evergreen leaves, often with pale green veins. Mature plants produce bushy, non-clinging branches with diamond-shaped leaves, and small greenish-yellow flowers in autumn, followed by black berries in winter

Question 7

Name

Answer 7

Parthenocissus quinquefolia

a vigorous large deciduous climber. Leaves with five ovate leaflets, turning bright red and orange in autumn. Flowers inconspicuous; berries blue-black

Question 8

Name

Answer 8

Cotoneaster horizontalis

Question 9

Name

Answer 9

Pyracantha coccinea

An upright, evergreen shrub with glossy eliptical leaves and spiny stems. Clusters of white flowers are produced in early summer followed by red berries lasting through autumn and into early winter.

Full sun-partial shade

Question 10

Name

Answer 10

Chaenomeles speciosa

a vigorous, wide-spreading deciduous shrub with tangled, spiny branches and glossy, oval, dark green leaves. In spring it bears small clusters of red, bowl-shaped flowers 4cm across, followed by green-yellow, sweetly-scented fruit resembling small apples

Question 11

Name

Answer 11

Ribes speciosum

A spiny medium-sized deciduous shrub with bristly stems bearing small, oval, slightly lobed, glossy leaves. Small, drooping, fuchsia-like bright crimson flowers with prominent stamens hang beneath the stems in mid and late spring

Question 12

Name

Answer 12

Ceanothus ‘Autumnal Blue’

alkaline soil