CLIMBER
Types of CLIMBERs
Ficus pumila
A vigorous and fast growing, self-clinging, climber, covering everything it encounters by adhesive aerial rootlets. Small heart-shaped leaves resemble small ivy leaves. Also used as a ground cover.
- Plant name: Ficus pumila
- Common English name: Tickey creeper
- Indigenous/Exotic: Exotic
- Evergreen/Deciduous: Evergreen
- Height & Width: 4 m x 1.8 m
- Light preference: Sun → semi-shade
- Water needs: Moderate
- Soil requirements: Chalk, Clay, Loam, Sand
- Available sizes: 15 cm
Pandorea jasminoides
A woody, evergreen climber that bears an absolute abundance of tubular, pink flowers with deep purple throats from mid-spring to late summer.
- Plant name: Pandorea jasminoides
- Common english name: Bower plant, Lady di
- Indigenous/Exotic: Exotic
- Evergreen/Deciduous: Evergreen
- Height & Width: 4-5m x 3m
- Time of flower: Spring, Late Summer
- Colour of flower: Pink, White
- Light preference: Full sun → semi-shade
- Water needs: Moderate
- Soil requirements: Sandy, Loam
- Available sizes: 15 cm
Passiflora edulis
A fast-growing and robust perennial vine with the characteristic striking solitary white and violet flowers of the granadilla plant.
- Plant name: Passiflora edulis
- Common english name: Granadilla, Passion fruit
- Indigenous/Exotic: Exotic
- Evergreen/Deciduous: Evergreen
- Height & Width: 2-5m x 1-4m
- Time of flower: Early spring, Summer
- Colour of flower: White and Purple
- Light preference: Full sun
- Water needs: Moderate
- Soil requirements: Sandy, Loam
- Available sizes: 15cm
Rhoicissus digitata
The main stem is woody with distinctively russet-orange hairs covering young stems. New leaves can be conspicuously rust-red. Tendrils occur opposite the leaves which are digitally compound, with three to five leaflets with very short stalks.
- Plant name: Rhoicissus digitata
- Common english name: Baboon Grape
- Common afrikaans name: Bobbejaandruif
- Indegenous/Exotic: Indigenous
- Evergreen/Deciduous: Evergreen
- Height & Width: 0.5-1.5m x 1-10m
- Time of flower: Late Summer, Autumn
- Colour of flower: Brown, Green, Cream, Yellow
- Light preference: Full sun → semi-shade
- Water needs: Low → moderate
- Soil requirements: Sandy, Clay, Loam
- Available sizes: 15cm
Rhoicissus tomentosa
The main stem is woody with distinctively russet-orange hairs covering young stems. New leaves can be conspicuously rust-red. Tendrils occur opposite the leaves which are digitally compound, with three to five leaflets with very short stalks.
- Plant name: Rhoicissus tomentosa
- Common english name: Wild grape, Bush grape, African grape
- Common afrikaans name: Bosdruif, Wildedruif
- Indigenous/Exotic: Indigenous
- Evergreen/Deciduous: Evergreen
- Height: Up to 20m
- Time of flower: Summer
- Colour of flower: Green, Cream
- Light preference: Full sun → semi-shade
- Water needs: Low → moderate
- Soil requirements: Sandy, Loam
- Available sizes: 15cm
Trachelospermum jasminoides
Vigorous, evergreen, woody climber about 9m in height, with twining stems, glossy dark green, oval leaves to 10cm in length, often turning deep bronze-red in winter and clusters of very fragrant, white flowers 2.5cm in width produced in late spring.
- Plant name: Trachelospermum jasminoides
- Common English name: Star Jasmine
- Indigenous/Exotic: Exotic
- Evergreen/Deciduous: Evergreen
- Height: 3m x 1.5m
- Time of flower: Late spring
- Colour of flower: Green, Cream
- Light preference: Sun → semi-shade
- Water needs: Moderate
- Soil requirements: Well drained
- Available sizes: 15cm