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Thanks for sharing , One of my favourites too. I'm going to plant one this year long with Viburnum , another favourite!  We lost three plum trees last year, so a bit of new planting going on this month!  Love the gardens in March,April and May. 

@victoria1stI want one of those and can't find it at the garden centers.

@peggyL

@astridff

Nothing is instant with plants.,sorry.

My suggestion is Kiwi. Within 3 years you will have shade, and in the following years, more than enough fruit.

You need one (very happy 😉 ) male plant between two females.

They do well here.

Alan

@astridff

Astrid, we planted 2 passion flowers that were about 2 foot high, each on one side of an arch that goes over the front walkway. In 10 months one of them has grown completely over the arch and is now touching the plant on the other side. I have had to turn it around to go back. It's more than 1 vine growing across. I can't count them all. And the passionflower is so pretty. blooms all year except the hottest 4 weeks in the summer. Mandaville is also fast and does not shed too much. Or Jasmine.

@peggyL

@victoria1st what a lovely plant. Yes a contender 🙂

@victoria1st There are other Trumpet Vine species with even more rampant growth.  What I think I've been seeing in my central/littoral area is the orange Trumpet Vine from North America, Campsis radicans.  (Taxonomy of these species has been shifting, so you could see other names, Bignonia or whatever.)  This plant has a reputation for being kind of a terror - particularly, it can start coming up from underground suckers and become very hard to control.  But people grow it, and it's quite spectacular.  There's one down the street on a telephone pole (I believe not in use?), that looks like a big tree until you look twice and realize it's just a vine on a pole.

A neighbor also has a good bed of Tecoma capensis, similar but much smaller and very lush green with plenty of orange flowers in September.