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Climbing plants for shipping container

  • 19-04-2024 06:15PM
    #1
    Jimi H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭


    Hi all, I have a big shipping container I use for a shed. Any suggestions for evergreen flowering climbers? Also will I need some sort of trellis?



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  • #2
    looksee
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    Yes you will need trellis, and probably quite sturdy one.

    What you plant depends a lot on which way the wall you want to cover faces, be best if you establish this first.

    A south or south-west or even west facing side could get hot enough to kill plants in the summer - you only need one very hot day to fry your climber. You might consider putting a sturdy structure based on 2x3 or 2x4 timbers on that side, preferably set away from the metal to leave a gap of a few inches. Remember in winter it will also get very cold, probably too cold for a tender climber.

    On other sides you can consider honeysuckle, evergreen clematis, clematis montana, climbing hydrangea, climbing rose.

    Don't be tempted to plant Fallopia baldschuanica or Russian Vine - it will completely cover a container, it will also attempt to cover your house and next door's house as well.



  • #3
    standardg60
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    One good evergreen self clinging flowering climber if you can find it is Pileostegia viburnoides.



  • #4
    looksee
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    I just looked that up and its climbing hydrangea, but it looks very different to the c/h I have.



  • #5
    standardg60
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122040366#Comment_122040366

    It's in the Hydrangea family but a different genus, it has long leathery leaves but the flowers are similar to c/h.



  • #6
    Jimi H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭Jimi H


    Thanks folks lots of ideas there. I’ll get cracking



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  • #7
    tomaitetoma53
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 ✭tomaitetoma53


    Does anyone here use a shipping container for gardening purposes? I'm curious how you've adapted it—whether for storage, a greenhouse, or other creative uses. How do you manage things like ventilation, humidity, and organization inside the container? Any tips or insights would be greatly appreciated!



  • #8
    looksee
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    Storing tools maybe. They would need so much structure cut out to use for growing that the container would have no integrity - most of the strength of a shipping container comes from its corrugated sides.



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