We are starting a cottage garden with a low stone wall and arbor and I'm trying to narrow down my options for what to have climb the arbor. First priority is deer resistant, I know what deer will eat varies but ours seem particularly voracious so I only want tried and true options. Next I'd like the vine to be evergreen so the arbor is not bare in the winter, and finally it needs to be fairly low maintenance/drought tolerant. I live on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, hardiness zone 8b.

Right now I'm thinking of an evergreen clematis or a potato vine, with purple, blue or white flowers. Anyone have experience with those in similar situations or ideas of what could be better? Thanks!

Try Major Wheeler Honeysuckle. Indigenous to the US, will bloom all summer, stays green for me all winter, and hummingbirds, butterflies and bees love it. Also, since it's thorn-less, it's good for an arbor that you may walk through...

Trachelospermum jasminoides (star jasmine) is a hardy, tough, low-water evergreen vine with small sweet-smelling flowers. I grow it on a fence and on a privacy screen where it grows with no special care from me. It looks good all winter, and in spring I plant annual vines with bright flowers to climb on it. I don't know about deer----