Evergreen clematis

Looking for an evergreen vine? HGTV teaches you how to make evergreen clematis, as well as star jasmine and Carolina jessamine, thrive in your garden year-round.

Clematis armandii

Using one or two of the best evergreen climbers will ensure your yard looks good during every season

See the three simple secrets to get spring flowering clematis to bloom again and again. Enjoy your clematis longer than ever this year!

Red is a strong colour, but it’s intensity can be played with depending on what you pair it with. Accentuate it by teaming it with its polar opposite on the colour wheel - green, or cool it down with a silver backdrop. It will also dazzle with yellows and oranges.

One of the things about walking close to home is you see new things – this beautiful, white clematis, for example, growing almost in a heart shape around the entrance to a stone-built terrace…

It is not difficult this year finding beauty everywhere as I look around the garden. The roses are bigger and better than ever (although I do notice some brown fringes on the petals from the frosts that occurred before they opened). Carefree Beauty is huge this year! There were years I almost pulled it out because it just didn't seem to be flourishing. Pink Promise is my only hybrid tea that I purchased packaged with a shrub rose. Both were All America Winners. This one was almost pulled…

A designer turned his bleak site into cozy terraces that invite outdoor living

But a lot of times we need and appreciate a little fencing in... a little privacy from neighbors and a busy world. Outdoors, we can put up fencing, walls, arbors, pergolas; just about any architectural structure to create privacy and dimension, or, just the wall and ceiling planes to our gardens and outdoor rooms. So when you need the perfect marriage of evergreen climbers for architectural structures, (or vice-versa) here are some choices:

At this time of year we are often overwhelmed by what is going on in the garden. Things are bursting with color, while others are unfurling delicately. All of a sudden the fence which we drove past…