Star Jasmine is beloved for its intoxicating fragrance that transforms fences, arches, and pergolas into living features while creating stunning vertical displays in Western Cape gardens. This versatile evergreen climber provides year-round structure with its glossy foliage, while the profusion of starry white blooms in spring and summer fills the garden with heavenly scent. It can also be clipped into hedges or used as groundcover, making it one of the most adaptable climbers for entrances, patios, and pergolas. Plant 1.5-2m apart for screening or use as specimen plants against walls and structures. Feed annually in spring with a balanced slow-release fertilizer and ensure well-drained soil enriched with compost for optimal growth. Learn more about successful coastal gardening with versatile climbers like Star Jasmine, or discover how to create privacy with plants for beautiful, fragrant screening solutions.

Chinese Jasmine is a fast-growing, evergreen climber celebrated for its profusion of intensely fragrant jasmine flowers that transform any garden space into a fragrant paradise. This stunning climber produces masses of pink buds that open into star-shaped white blooms from late winter into early spring, creating spectacular displays on trellises, walls, and pergolas. Unlike Star Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides), Chinese Jasmine prefers sun to partial shade and thrives in well-draining soil, making it ideal for training over structures, covering walls, or growing in containers on patios and decks. Plant 1.5-2m apart for screening or use as specimen plants against walls and structures. Feed annually in spring with a balanced slow-release fertilizer and enrich soil with quality compost for optimal growth. Apply pine mulch around the base to retain moisture and suppress weeds. Learn more about creating a scented and fragrant garden with aromatic climbers like Chinese Jasmine, or discover how to create privacy with plants using fast-growing, fragrant screening solutions.

Starry Wild Jasmine (Boerejasmyn) is a versatile indigenous semi-climber that transforms any garden space with its fragrant white flowers adorned with delicate pink undersides, blooming from September to January.

Why You'll Love It:
• Remarkable South African indigenous plant
• Can reach up to 3m in height as a climber
• Can be pruned into a compact, tidy hedge
• Perfect for diverse landscaping needs
• Promotes biodiversity while attracting beneficial pollinators
• Enhances your garden's sensory experience with exquisite fragrance
• Water-wise indigenous beauty

Planting & Care:
Plant 1-1.5m apart for hedging or use as specimen plants against walls and structures. Feed annually in spring with a balanced slow-release fertilizer and enrich soil with quality compost for optimal growth. 

Learn how your garden can support local ecosystems with indigenous plants like Starry Wild Jasmine, or discover tips for creating a scented garden with fragrant indigenous climbers.

Tickey Creeper is a vigorous, fast-growing, self-clinging climber that transforms walls, fences, and structures with its small heart-shaped leaves that resemble ivy, creating lush green coverage through adhesive aerial rootlets. This versatile plant works beautifully as groundcover, indoor houseplant, or in hanging baskets, making it perfect for both vertical and horizontal landscaping solutions. The dense foliage provides excellent screening and privacy while requiring minimal maintenance once established. Plant 1-2m apart for screening or use as specimen plants against walls and structures. Feed annually in spring with a balanced slow-release fertilizer and enrich soil with quality compost for optimal growth. Apply pine mulch around the base to retain moisture and suppress weeds. Learn more about creating privacy with plants using fast-growing climbers like Tickey Creeper, or discover container gardening tips for growing versatile plants in pots and hanging baskets.

Plumbago Auriculata Blue is a Western Cape favourite, an indigenous shrub treasured for its masses of blue blooms, mainly from November to May.

Why You'll Love It:
• Indigenous Western Cape shrub with masses of blooms
• Long flowering season from November to May
• Fast-growing and easy to train
• Perfect for informal hedges, sprawling against fences, or cascading over walls
• Can be trimmed into neat, compact shape in pots
• Hardy and water-wise once established
• Adored by butterflies - excellent for wildlife gardens
• One of the most rewarding shrubs for long-lasting seasonal colour

Planting & Care:
Plant in full sun with well-draining soil. Water regularly during establishment, then reduce as plant becomes water-wise. Prune after flowering to maintain shape and encourage new growth. Feed with balanced fertilizer in spring to encourage vigorous blooming.

Chinese Wisteria (Wisteria Sinensis) is a truly special garden climber that's not always easy to find, making it a prized addition when you can acquire one for your Western Cape garden. This vigorous, deciduous climber produces spectacular cascades of violet-blue or  white, sweetly scented flowers in spring, creating breathtaking displays that transform any outdoor space.

Why You'll Love It:
• Vigorous, deciduous climber creates breathtaking displays
• Perfect for training over sunny walls, pergolas, or arches
• Enchanting when left to ramble naturally through mature trees and shrubs
• Creates romantic, woodland appeal
• Transforms any outdoor space with cascading blooms
• Prized addition to Western Cape gardens

Planting & Care:
Plant 2-3m apart in fertile, well-draining soil enriched with quality compost in full sun for optimal flowering. Wisteria requires sturdy support structures as mature plants become heavy with age, so ensure proper installation before planting.  Feed in spring with balanced fertilizer and prune twice yearly - once in midsummer to control growth and again in late winter to encourage flower buds.

Learn more about creating privacy with plants using spectacular flowering climbers like Wisteria, or discover tips for creating a scented garden with these coveted, fragrant flowering climbers.

Petrea volubilis is one of the most distinct and beautiful cultivated climbers, celebrated for its long sprays of violet-blue, star-shaped flowers that appear in spring. The flowers create a striking display, often likened to wisteria in their cascading form.

This evergreen plant features rough, leathery leaves that contrast beautifully with its soft, elegant flowers. It needs strong support and guidance to climb, making it ideal for pergolas, arches, fences, and sunny garden walls.

Perfectly suited to Cape Town’s winter-rainfall climate, Petrea volubilis is a fast grower that brings softness, height, and colour to any outdoor space. A white-flowering form is also available for a more delicate look.

• White flowers appear in spring
• Requires strong support to climb
• Good drainage preferred

Pandorea Jasminoides is a fast-growing, woody climber that transforms fences and trellises with its stunning trumpet-shaped flowers from spring to summer. Available in three beautiful color forms: classic pink with deeper pink throats, pure white with yellow centers, and soft light pink varieties. Each produces masses of fragrant blooms that attract pollinators and add vibrant color to vertical spaces. Feed with a balanced fertilizer monthly during the growing season to encourage prolific flowering. This versatile climber is easily pruned to your desired height and thrives equally well when grown in large containers, making it perfect for patios and courtyards where space is limited.

 Turn your garden into a showpiece with Dipladenia (Mandevilla) Jade White. This compact evergreen climber shrub produces a dazzling display of pure white, trumpet-shaped blooms from spring into early autumn, shining brightly against glossy green foliage. Perfect for flower beds, patio pots, or planted in groups for a breathtaking mass of colour, it brings a touch of elegance to any outdoor space.

Hardy yet refined, Jade White thrives in full sun and well-drained soil, rewarding you with months of effortless beauty. Simply water regularly, feed during the growing season, and enjoy a long-lasting floral display tailored to Cape Town and Western Cape conditions.

 Dipladenia Diamantina Jade Pink is a magnificent, free-flowering climber shrub that produces cascades of soft pink blooms from spring right through to autumn. Compact yet vigorous, it’s a standout choice for pots, trellises, and mixed flower beds, bringing long-lasting colour and elegance to the garden.

Thriving in full sun to partial shade, this dipladenia prefers well-drained soil and performs best when allowed to climb an airy trellis rather than being planted directly against a hot wall. Low-maintenance, resilient, and endlessly rewarding, it’s one of our absolute favourites for adding beauty and charm to Western Cape gardens.

A non-fruiting, fast-growing, deciduous vine grown for its remarkable foliage. Excellent for growing against sturdy fences or walls, with leaves that turn red, orange, and burgundy in autumn. Keep well-watered, especially the first year of establishment. Prefers well-drained soil

A vigorous, fast-growing and deciduous, self-adhesive climber with lovely 3 lobed bright green leaves, turning beautiful shades of orange and red in autumn.

A hardy, evergreen creeper traditionally used to make jam and rope. Attractive foliage. Indigenous, fast grower for covering fences or pergolas. Can also be used as a ground-cover. Small green-yellow flowers in late summer, followed by tart ‘grape-looking’ berries. The flowers will attract insects to your garden. It can be used as a screen.

Plumbago Auriculata White is a popular vine-like shrub covered in clusters of white flowers for many months of the year. This versatile indigenous plant is often used for covering garden banks but can be trimmed beautifully for use in pots, flowering mainly from November to May.

Why You'll Love It:
• Long flowering season from November to May
• Indigenous and water smart
• Often used for covering garden banks
• Can be trimmed beautifully for use in pots
• Attracts butterflies and bees
• Low maintenance once established

Planting & Care:
Plant 1-1.5m apart in full sun with well-drained soil. Water regularly during establishment, then reduce as plant becomes drought-tolerant. Trim regularly to maintain desired shape and encourage bushy growth. Feed with balanced fertilizer in spring and summer.

 Mandevilla Jade Red is a magnificent climber shrub, flowering continuously from spring into early autumn. Its rich red, trumpet-shaped blooms shine against glossy green foliage, adding warmth and vibrancy to Cape Town and Western Cape gardens. Ideal for patio pots, flower beds, or grouped together for a spectacular mass display, Jade Red also climbs gracefully when supported on a light trellis. An absolute favourite for a bold, long-lasting colour show.

Easy to grow and highly rewarding, Dipladenia Jade Red thrives in full sun and moist, free-draining soil. Water regularly, feed every 2–3 weeks in the growing season, and protect from frost in cooler areas. Avoid planting directly against hot walls; instead, allow this climber shrub to twine naturally on airy supports.

Bougainvillea ‘Barbara Karst’ is a vigorous, evergreen climber that drenches your garden in bold magenta-red colour. Its dark green, glossy leaves form the perfect backdrop for masses of luminous bracts that bloom from spring right through to late autumn — often continuing into winter in mild coastal areas. The small, pure-white flowers are strikingly bright against the bracts, creating an unforgettable show of tropical vibrancy.

Why You’ll Love It:
• Produces vibrant crimson-red bracts for an exceptionally long flowering season
• Colour stays brightest in full sun — light shade will soften tones to reddish-blue
• Exceptionally heat- and drought-tolerant once established
• Hardy and reliable — one of the toughest bougainvillea cultivars
• Perfect for coastal gardens, pergolas, fences, and sunny walls

Planting & Care:
Plant in full sun in well-drained soil to bring out the best colour. Water deeply but infrequently once established — too much water or shade reduces flowering. Feed every 6–8 weeks with a flowering shrub fertiliser during the growing season. Trim lightly after flushes of bloom to keep it neat and encourage new growth. Avoid heavy winter watering.

 Cape Garden Tip:
For the brightest colour, give it sunshine and restraint — bougainvilleas bloom best when slightly stressed. Perfect for Cape Town’s coastal gardens, where it thrives in summer heat and copes well with winter rain. Pair with Lampranthus for a carpet of matching brilliance or use Tree & Shrub Fertiliser to keep growth strong and flowering prolific.

Mandevilla Tourmaline Rose is a compact climber shrub that blossoms abundantly from summer into early autumn. Its unique, star-shaped blooms are exceptionally large, shimmering in shades of pale rose-pink with a soft, luminous effect. Perfect for smaller gardens, patio pots, and containers, this variety adds beauty and striking colour contrast to any summer display in Cape Town and Western Cape gardens.

Easy to grow and wonderfully rewarding, Tourmaline Rose thrives in full sun with moist, free-draining soil. Water regularly, feed every 2–3 weeks during the growing season, and protect from frost in cooler areas. Its naturally compact form and eye-catching flowers make it a standout choice for gardeners looking to add something different and exquisite to their collection.

A beautiful vigorous-growing bougainvillea with bright magenta coloured flower bracts. Suitable to cover patios and a dramatic groundcover for banks when allowed to ramble. Plant in well-draining soil.  

The floral bracts on this beautiful bougainvillea open orange, turning pink as they age. This variety has a full growth habit providing masses of blooms. Ideal for low maintenance, low water use gardens.

This attractive shrub will form a dense mat, making it ideal as a groundcover or a climber in rocky gardens. It has small dark green leaves on red-brown stems with small yellow-white flowers from late spring.

Add a touch of charm to your garden with the Vigna Caracalla, also known as the Snail Vine. Its captivating, spiral-shaped flowers in soft purples and lavenders not only look like delicate snail shells but also release a sweet, jasmine-like fragrance. Fast-growing and perfect for trellises or pergolas, this unique vine transforms any space into a lush, fragrant haven.

A twining evergreen climber with lustrous deeply veined, dark green leaves and vibrant scarlet flowers in summer. Will add a burst of colour to your outdoor haven. Not just a feast for the eyes, it is a low maintenance gem too. While not evergreen, its dazzling blossoms make a seasonal statement. Needs a sturdy support like a trellis or pergola. Will attract butterflies to the garden.

This special 2-in-1 climber shrub offers double the impact, with two plants in a single pot for an even more magnificent display. Flowering continuously from spring through to autumn, it produces an abundance of trumpet-shaped blooms set against glossy green foliage. Perfect for pots, flower beds, or climbing up an airy trellis, the 2-in-1 variety quickly becomes a showpiece in any Cape Town or Western Cape garden.

As with all Dipladenias, avoid planting directly against hot walls. Instead, allow them to climb naturally on a light support for best results. Thriving in full sun with moist, free-draining soil, this variety is easy to grow, responds well to regular watering and feeding, and rewards you with months of vibrant colour. A true favourite for gardeners wanting maximum effect with minimal effort.

A beautiful evergreen, variegated Trachelospermum, that features bright green, white and pink leaves. It produces fragrant, small white flowers from late spring to autumn. Ideal as a wonderful ground cover and admired for its interesting foliage. Although it is a slow growing plant it makes a statement in a garden

An evergreen vine belonging to the Begonia family. From late spring the vine is covered in beautiful lavender trumpet flowers, delicately streaked in dark violet with a pale yellow throat. The vine has glossy grean leaves and is fast growing, ideal to cover fences and garden structures. Drought tolerant once established.

Dipladenia ‘Jade XXL White’ is a semi-compact, evergreen perennial that flaunts large, crisp white flowers set against glossy dark green foliage. With its generous bloom size and tidy growth habit, it’s perfect for patio containers, baskets or small garden spaces.

Why You'll Love It:
• Large pure white blooms that contrast beautifully with deep foliage
• Bushy-compact form, ideal for containers or just where space is limited
• Long flowering period in warm conditions — spring through to autumn
• Prefers a bright position but not sitting flush against hot walls
• Low-maintenance and showy — an absolute favourite

Planting & Care:
Plant in well-drained, fertile soil in full to part sun. Avoid planting directly against hot walls; instead use an airy trellis or keep in a roomy pot where air can circulate. Water regularly when young, and feed every 4–6 weeks during the growing season for best bloom performance.

Meet 𝐂𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬 𝐈𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐚, the Flower of Hope.

Bred by Raymond J. Evison, the world’s leading clematis breeder (35 Chelsea Gold Medals), Ithemba has been released in South Africa before anywhere else in the world.

Raymond has selected the Ithemba Clematis to help shine a light on the Children’s Hospital Trust in Cape Town, spreading awareness for their life-changing work for children in need.

Growing Tips for Cape Town & Beyond

Plant in dappled shade where roots stay cool, with morning sun and protection from intense afternoon heat. Keep soil evenly moist, mulched well or underplanted with perennials, to ensure the roots remain cool and healthy.

Why you’ll love it
• South Africa — first in the world to launch this variety
• Bred for more blooms from top to bottom
• Excellent as a climber or groundcover
• Flowers generously in late spring to summer (often two flushes)
• Ideal for pots, pergolas, or bright patios
• Easy to prune – cut back lightly in late winter and remove any weak or dead stems
• Hardy perennial that rewards you year after year

A flower that gives back — created in support of the Children’s Hospital Trust, Cape Town.