PLANT A CLIMBER

Walls offer the ideal planting opportunity, especially where space is limited. A climbing rose is the ultimate cottage-garden favourite, enhancing a pretty property or helping to disguise less-than-attractive architectural features. Clematis armandii and wisteria have sweetly scented flowers, while on a sunny wall you could try star jasmine

(Trachelospermum jasminoides) or the flamboyant trumpet vine Campsis x tagliabuana ‘Madame Galen’. For autumn colour, consider Virginia creeper

(Parthenocissus quinquefolia, right), the crimson glory vine

(Vitis coignetiae) or Boston ivy

(Parthenocissus tricuspidata).