Help moving my climbers around!!
Mrs_Miggins
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Im quite new to gardening and have a tricky garden. SE facing but narrow with a big tree at the end. So not many spots are all day sun. I had a tree near the house i chopped down so its much sunnier though. My problem is knowing what goes where now. Heres my walls with pics.
Sunniest se facing wall but spots not all day and afternoons none in the west (right) corner. A climbing rose Gertrude Jekyll. Now growing out and about to be tied back/along the house.
On the left a jasmine. Limping along and going to put it in the ground on the east wall maybe? The spot its in is my sunniest spot. In little pots a very lovely passiflora which needs a new home and a rhodichitron (sp?)
Then theres the west wall. A honeysuckle (heckrotti) thats never been great there (though was better when the tree shaded it in the afternoon i think) and a passiflora which is getting shaded by the rose currently. Plus some thunbergia. And another honeysuckle which turned out not to be a climber and flowers early. Ive got a border to the right with a large acer so only the left side is that sunny.
On the left, east, is a passiflora which just started growing in the ground (happy to cut it back) and a big planter on the left which doesnt get loads of sun as the big tree is on this side and throws shade plus theres a border with a big Chilean potato vine. Im thinking of putting the jasmine roughly where the greenhouse is - my neighbours have them and they do well.
And finally my back wall at the bottom of my garden. East facing but not a sunny spot as theres a shed to the left. But getting morning sun still! I water this a lot as ive got astilbes in it. I had a climbing hydrangea but it hated it. So i moved a clematis that was in an even more shady spot that i thought was dead there and its doing well! I could put something else in there i think. The rose maybe? Or too shady?
I also have a couple of very large pots with plants that like sun i need to move.
I just dont know where to start. Help!! And sorry for the long post!!!
i should add i used a peat free growmore compost in my windowboxes and pink planters this year and its really set everything back. So thats not helped.
i should add i used a peat free growmore compost in my windowboxes and pink planters this year and its really set everything back. So thats not helped.
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Looking at your first photo, the rose is on the right and the jasmine on the left if I understand you correctly? I think I would be inclined to leave both where they are as both need sunshine - why did you want to move the jasmine? If it's doing poorly it's probably either needs feeding or watering or both perhaps.
Your back fence would be better for your honeysuckles as they prefer shade.
The passifloras need sunshine as does the thunbergia. Anything you grow in the greenhouse also needs sunshine so that's probably your best spot for it.
Hope this helps, good luck with your re-arranging. I should add don't move anything now, it's the wrong time of year, too hot and way too dry. Wait till the autumn when we've had a good lot of rain, then transplant.