Creeper or Climber Plants

Landscaping plants is the main objective that made up of a beautiful garden. The plants that range from scrubs, flowerbed, trees, hedges and creepers. Landscaping a garden shall relies on the plants being utilized and let’s discuss on the creeper plant.                                                                                                       

Any plants that creep on the ground and crawl on walls, pergolas, arches, porches, trellises and pillars. Creeping plants develop in a different way from other plant types. These plant  are a part of the plant's natural reproductive phase, an ability that allows them to grow new, independent plants and ability to clones the originating plant. The creeper plant spread out rather than growing up vertically, scattering along the ground and root grows together as they move. Generally, creepers are good ground covers. Below are some examples of creeper plant :

Mandevilla

Bauhinia Kockiana

Madam Jealousy

If you have some plants that are placed near each other, and the one of them is a creepers, then the leafs will certainly overspread after sometime. To overcome this problem, prune them regularly, or you can place them distance from other plants so that they will not clone themselves fast.

One of the things that's quite surprising with these creeper is the speed in which they establish themselves. Some species can clone within a matter of days, which can infest other pots even before you aware of it. If the creeper plant is left alone, few weeks later, the leafs of the creeper may tangled with other plants and you may find that it is difficult  to remove once they have successfully spread.. This becomes a problem if you'd like to separate the plants.

Ficus Pumila

Allamanda

Morning glory

Clitoria Ternatea

Most creeper plants can take on full sunlight and grow to the direction of the sunlight. Clitoria ternatea have a long, slender stem that trails and climbs by winding itself about a support or a mesh wire or other similar structure.

Thunbergia

Thunbergia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, native to tropical regions of Africa, Madagascar and southern Asia. Its members are known by various names, including thunbergias; clockvine on its own usually refers to Thunbergia grandiflora, while Thunbergia alata is often known as Black-eyed Susan vine.

The above are the common examples of creeping plants that grow in the gardens. As for ground covers, the creepers on the ground will add beautiful background to the plants. Besides that, these creepers will also minimize weeds from growing into the compound. Creepers do not only add beauty to your garden, they also maintain the clean and neat surrounding of the garden. To choose which creepers to grow is dependent on your garden design. To have an attractive and beautiful garden with the correct design, you can hire landscaper specialists to help you design your garden.