Fragrant Climbing Plants
Add an extra dimension to your outdoor space with scented climbing plants and vines - they’re perfect for creating atmosphere in a seating area or twining around an arch to fragrance a path or walkway.
The OG for summer scent
- Starry white blooms with notes of vanilla
- Evergreen for year-round interest
- Happy in full sun to partial shade
- Flowers from June to September
Prolific flowers, fab fragrance
- Plunging purple blooms (up to 30cm long)
- Ideal for training up a pergola, wall or arch
- Happy in full sun to partial shade
- Blooms from May to June
Staggering metre-long blooms!
- Sprawling lavender racemes (up to 1m long)
- Delicately fragrant
- Happy in full sun to partial shade
- Blooms from May to June
Fragrant evergreen diva
- Butter yellow and white, horn-shaped blooms
- Ideal for training up a pergola or fence
- A woodland plant that likes part shade
- Prolific flowers from July to September
Snowy white drifts of wisteria
- Swaying white blooms (up to 60cm long)
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
- Happy in full sun to partial shade
- Flowers from April to June
Myriad fragrant flowers
- Showy red, white and yellow blooms
- Attractive red autumn berries
- Like most honeysuckles, prefers part shade
- Flowers from May to June
Flowers roar to life each May
- Striking violet trusses (up to 50cm long)
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
- Happiest in full sun, grows in partial shade
- Flowers from May to June
Fast-growing and fragrant
- Powder pink flowers and dark green leaves
- Fast-growing, vigorous climber
- Likes full sun (grows in partial shade)
- Flowers from June to July
Abundant flowers? Not half!
- Glorious clusters of fragrant white blooms
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
- Happy in sun (and partial shade)
- Flowers from March to April
Serotina boosts our serotonin!
- Magenta and yellow, tubular blooms
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
- Prefers dappled light or partial shade
- Flowers from July to October
A riot of blush pink
- Enchanting blush pink blossoms
- Pruning group 1 - no pruning
- Full sun to partial shade, hardy (H5)
- Flowers May to June
Boasts great mildew resistance
- Lemon yellow and snow white, tubular flowers
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
- Grows in both partial shade and full sun
- Long-flowering from June to September
The black dragon wisteria
- Flowing violet sprays (up to 50cm long)
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
- Prefers full sun but tolerates part shade
- Blooms from May to June
Extremely fragrant winter blooms
- Highly-scented creamy flowers, semi-evergreen
- Provides winter interest in beds and borders
- Prefers a partially shaded location
- Flowers from December to March
Floriferous and superbly scented
- Dangling amethyst racemes (up to 30cm long)
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
- Grows best in full sun, tolerates part shade
- Flowers from May to June
Abundant summer flower clouds
- Starry white blooms with yellow centres
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
- Full sun is preferable (some shade is fine)
- Blooms from June to August
Extremely cheery summer blooms
- Golden-orange, trumpet-shaped flowers
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
- Likes part shade (can be grown in full sun)
- Flowers from June to September
Powerful pockets of red and pink
- Tubular pink blooms with a creamy interior
- Unbeatable levels of fragrance
- Plant in part (or dappled) shade
- Perfumed flowers from May to August
Instant cottage garden charm
- Scarlet-orange, funnel-like flowers
- Dramatic blue-green foliage
- Grows in full sun but prefers a bit of shade
- Yields blooms from July to September
Instant atmosphere and fragrance
- White and yellow, scented blooms
- Highly ornamental black berries in autumn
- Grows in both part shade and full sun
- Summer flowering from July to September
Cascading, pearly-white blooms
- Flaxen yellow, tubular flowers
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
- Dappled or part shade is preferred
- Blooms from July to September
An explosion of pink stars
- Pastel pink, starry flowers and glossy leaves
- Blooms radiate a heady, tropical aroma
- Prefers sun (tolerates partial shade)
- Abundant pink flowers from June to August
Rose pink climbing clusters
- Stunning pink panicles (up to 60cm long)
- The ultimate plant to train up walls
- Likes full sun, copes with partial shade
- Blooms from May to June
Showy, scented trumpet flowers
- Carmine-pink and orange, horn-like blooms
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
- Partial or dappled shade is perfect
- Blooms from June to September