1. Virginia creeper
The Virginia creeper is a climbing plant which has two advantages for concealing a fence: it allows quickly cover it and she adorns it with magnificent colors throughout the seasons, with the exception of winter. Indeed, the deciduous foliage evolves in different shades of green or purple, before adopting flamboyant colors in the fall, then falling.
Besides that, this plant is easy to grow, it can be grown in sun or partial shadeit is very rustic and can be installed anywhere in France.
Its only drawback is its rapid development which can make it invasive.
2. Ivy
Shade plant par excellence, but which can also be grown in the sun, ivy is a climbing plant with evergreen leaves, which is at the same time very rustic, very resistant and undemanding. But, like Virginia creeper and all these types of vines, it can be invasive.
Admittedly, it will allow you to quickly cover your fences, whether solid or mesh, but will require regular maintenance to channel its development and expansion. Depending on the variety, the foliage may be different : you will thus have the choice between varieties with plain green foliage and others with variegated foliage.
3. Honeysuckle
This climbing plant evergreen or semi-evergreen foliage depending on the variety and fast growing will not only allow you to mask your fence in a relatively short time, but it will beautify it with its trumpet flowers and will embalm your garden with its pleasant fragrance.
It is a vigorous plant that grows easily, whether in the sun or in the shade, in the ground or in a container. On the other hand, if your fence is full, this is not the plant for you, because, unlike ivy, it does not have spikes to hang on to.
There are different varieties of honeysuckle with different colors.
4. Star Jasmine
Like honeysuckle, star jasmine will allow you to quickly cover your fence at the same time as it will offer you its sweet fragrance and its beautiful star-shaped blooms. If the latter can be white, it can also be yellow, even pinkish red depending on the variety.
Moreover, its foliage being persistent, it will allow you to enjoy a green screen in both summer and winter. It doesn’t have spikes either, but if your fence is wire mesh, its twining rods will get into all the holes. It is a hardy plant that prefers to be installed in the sun.
5. Clematis
To dress up your mesh fences, you can also bet on clematis. This very beautiful climbing plant is as beautiful as it is capricious and demanding. Indeed, it will quickly cover the surface only if the growing conditions suit it, that is to say deep, rich, humus-rich and perfectly drained soil, as well as good light and no strong winds.
By combining the varieties, you can have a flower fence practically all year round with flowers of variable size, shape and color. It is also by the petioles of its flowers that the clematis clings to the support.
6. Bignone
This climbing plant with an exotic look and deciduous foliage will allow you to quickly cover a fence, since it grows 1 meter per year. In summer, it will be covered with a generous flowering in the shape of yellow, orange or red trumpets.
Quite hardy, it withstands temperatures down to -15°C. It can be grown in full sun in moist soil. Nevertheless, it will have to be kept To sheltered from cold drafts.
When choosing the variety, check that it is suitable for the type of fence you have: if it is solid, be sure to opt for a variety with spikes, if it is mesh, turn to the varieties with tendrils.
7. Hops
This very decorative plant is a fast growing plant with deciduous foliage. From June, it is covered witha cone-shaped bloom reminiscent of pine cones and giving off a subtle fragrance.
For this, you must plant it in a sunny location, whatever the type of soil, although it has a preference for deep, rich and well-drained soils. In winter, all of its aerial part disappears, but it is reborn from its foot as soon as the temperatures rise.
Tip: It is best suited to a chain-link fence into whose holes the rods can wrap.
8. Climbing rose
To brighten up your fence and him bring a touch of romance, you can, of course, opt for a climbing rose. This garden classic can reach a height of 2 meters if you trellis it on a support. You can choose from many colors, sizes and shapes of flowers depending on the varieties.
Be sure to offer him a place deep, rich and well-drained soil, and enjoying long hours of sunshine. Roses certainly do not have evergreen foliage, but they allow you to take advantage of a bloom that generally extends from spring until the first frosts.
9. Wisteria
This climbing plant is appreciated for its abundant flowering in the form of a cluster and deliciously fragrant. Wisteria comes in different varieties with different colors.
Easy to grow and very hardy, it can be installed in the sun or in partial shade in all regions of France. If the fence you want to vegetate is made of rigid mesh, wisteria is perfectly suited for this purpose, but it will have to be pruned every year, because its vigorous growth needs to be channeled.
10. Akebia
This charming, exuberant vine is easy to grow and will allow you to gracefully hide your mesh fences, around which its branches will wrap, under its beautiful webbed leaves and its very decorative purple flowering, which, in addition, gives off a pleasant vanilla scent.
The most beneficial for her is to install it in fertile, well-drained soil in a sunny or partial shade position. It is fairly hardy, but in regions with strong winters, it will be necessary to protect it.
11. Solaneum
Also known as “nightshade”, this Mediterranean climbing plant is best suitable for rather mild climates. Its evergreen foliage will allow you to maintain a green screen throughout the year, but you will have to trellis it as it grows or guide its branches through the mesh of the fence.
If you offer it a sunny location with well-drained soil and sheltered from the wind, it will reward you with a multitude of small star-shaped flowers resembling jasmine flowers. Moreover, another of its names is “false-jasmine”.
12. Black-Eyed Susan
Of tropical origin, this chilly but very floriferous plant is to grow as an annual and will work wonders if you’re looking to quickly hide an unsightly fence.
In effect, planted in the sun or partial shade in fertile soil, it grows so quickly that it can reach between 3 and 4 m in height in a few weeks. Add to this that it is covered in a magnificent orange-yellow bloom with a dark heart that gives it its name. Install it against your fence to enjoy it until the fall. As soon as the cold weather arrives, all you have to do is fold the tuft back.
13. Morning Glory
The morning glory takes its name from its flowering in the shape of trumpets and with well-defined petalswhich only lasts one day, before withering and renewing itself the next day, from May until frost.
With this plant, you won’t be able to completely hide your fence, but you can dress the bottom about forty centimeters tall to give it a more pleasing rural look.
Not very hardy, the morning glory is to be grown as an annual in a sunny location, but protected from the scorching sun.
14. Sweet peas
Among the annuals, you can also count on the sweet pea to hide a fence. With its rapid growth, its beautiful colorful flowers and delicious fragrance, it will quickly brighten up your fences.
Installed in the sun or in partial shade, this plant flowers from May to October and can reach up to 1.80 meters in height. Not to mention that it is a easy to grow plant : just place the seeds at 30 cm intervals near the area to be trellised.
15. Morning Glory
The morning glory is a climbing plant which can be perennial or annual depending on its variety. Nevertheless, in our latitudes, the most beautiful species are grown as annuals.
This fast-growing plant will beautifully dress your fence with its heart-shaped leaves and its beautiful flowering funnel-shaped with beautiful colors. Very easy to grow, if it likes where you plant it, that is to say in a sunny location with rich and drained soil, it can even become invasive insofar as the seeds are self-sown.