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Types of CREEPER plants

Jasminum angulare

Jasminum angulare is a scrambling and climbing shrub. The branchlets and leaves may be hairless or conspicuously hairy. The flowers are pure white, strongly fragrant and produced in flat-topped, few-flowered inflorescences at the tips of the stems.

  • PLANT NAME: Jasminum angulare
  • COMMON ENGLISH NAME: Wild jasmine
  • COMMON AFRIKAANS NAME:Wildejasmyn
  • INDIGENOUS/ EXOTIC: Indigenous
  • EVERGREEN/ DECIDUOUS: Evergreen
  • HEIGHT: 7m
  • TIME OF FLOWER: Summer
  • COLOUR OF FLOWER: White
  • LIGHT PREFERENCE: Full sun → semi-shade
  • WATER NEEDS: Low
  • SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Sandy, Loam
  • AVAILABLE SIZES: 15cm

Jasminum multipartitum

It has sweetly scented, white, waxy flowers displayed against glossy, dark green foliage.

  • PLANT NAME: Jasminum multipartitum
  • COMMON ENGLISH NAME: Starry wild jasmine
  • COMMON AFRIKAANS NAME: Sterretjies-jasmyn
  • INDIGENOUS/ EXOTIC: Semi-decidious
  • EVERGREEN/ DECIDUOUS: Evergreen
  • HEIGHT & WIDTH: 1.5m-3m x 3m
  • TIME OF FLOWER: Spring, Summer
  • COLOUR OF FLOWER: White, Pink
  • LIGHT PREFERENCE: Full sun → semi-shade
  • WATER NEEDS: Moderate
  • SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Sandy, Clay, Loam
  • AVAILABLE SIZES: 15cm

Jasminum polyanthum

A fast-growing evergreen creeper that develops into a dense bush adorned with clusters of pink buds. These buds open into highly fragrant white flowers.

  • PLANT NAME: Jasminum polyanthum
  • COMMON ENGLISH NAME: Chinese jasmine
  • INDIGENOUS/ EXOTIC: Exotic
  • EVERGREEN/ DECIDUOUS: Evergreen
  • HEIGHT & WIDTH: 4m x 1-1.5m
  • TIME OF FLOWER: Late Winter, Spring
  • COLOUR OF FLOWER: White
  • LIGHT PREFERENCE: Full sun → semi-shade
  • WATER NEEDS: Moderate
  • SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Sandy, Loam
  • AVAILABLE SIZES: 15cm

Lonicera japonica

Semi-evergreen perennial climber with hollow hairy stems and aired, ovate, dark green leaves. It forms small white flowers from Summer to Autumn, followed by small, dark berries.

  • PLANT NAME: Lonicera japonica
  • COMMON ENGLISH NAME: Japenese huneysuckle
  • INDIGENOUS/ EXOTIC: Exotic
  • EVERGREEN/ DECIDUOUS: Semi - evergreen
  • HEIGHT & WIDTH: 4.5-9m x 0.6-1.8m
  • TIME OF FLOWER: Summer, Autumn
  • COLOUR OF FLOWER: White
  • LIGHT PREFERENCE: Full sun → semi-shade
  • WATER NEEDS: Low → moderate
  • SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Sandy, Loam
  • AVAILABLE SIZES: 15cm