Wow! LOVE it!! Even if it's not evergreen. The "Major Wheeler" cultivar is amazing looking. I even found a place on line that sells it and is having flat rate shipping today! You were just in the nick of time!! Thank you!

I got mine (along with a whole lot of other plants) from Brushwood Nursery if your other source doesn't work out. Their plants are healthy and have done well in my garden. They also have a bunch of other cultivars of L. sempervirens.

Foul up names consistently, but I thing the Confederate Jasmine, Gelsemium semperrvirens, would be consistently evergreen in zone 7, It is in my zone 7a, But orderly? Not so much. There is a Clematis, with shiny, lancolate leaves and clouds of white Spring bloom and great fragrance. Name escapes me. A very orderly vine. Reported hardy in zone 7, I did lose mine, and will try it again. Usually listed by Brushwood Nursery. Will go search for the name among their choices, now. And will look among my photos, from years ago, to see if I have one of this beauty.

The evergreen is Clematis armandii. One sort is called 'Snowdrift'. Still looking for my photo, if I have it, among hundreds saved.

i think that is probably Clematis armandii you are referring to, bog :-) It is only marginally hardy in zone 7 and gets much larger than the OP wants (last words of her post).

ETA: we were both typing at the same time :-))

Funny. Armandii was lost, and so, as you say, it seems marginally hardy, here. But unmanageable? Not for me.

Hmmmm.......perhaps if it had a support system that was large enough for it to reach its full potential you might think differently :-)) In my climate, this IS a monster vine, easily reaching 25-30 feet. The one at my old property grew well up into the upper reaches of an old and very large apple tree. At my current residence, it grow up into the top of a chestnut tree - good 25 feet - and the base of the vine itself is more than 10 feet away from the tree. It's a biggie!!

As I posted above, I am going with the Lonicera sempervirens "Major Wheeler" even tho it may or may not be evergreen in NW GA. I ordered it that day.

Bogturtle, I want your armandii!!! I'd love to have one that stayed in bounds! Mine clambered over, under, around and above anything near it. Nothing was safe whether in sun or shade. It was beautiful tho - the way the leaves laid flat against the fence and covered it from top to bottom.

Limited contact with C. armandii, and agree it may be unmanageable. You are correct that the post limited its height. Do have a good number of L. sempervirens selections. Don't seem really evergreen, but they do bloom, in a Spring burst, and occasional blooms 'till stopped by frost. L. s. 'Magnifica' is my favorite. Another magnificent vine, that, in nature, tends to grow and bloom out of sight at the top of a forest tree is the Cross Vine, Bignonia capreolata. Mine is beautiful but cannot go higher than the 4 foot fence it grows on. A sheet of bloom, briefly, for some. Mine bloomed nicely, then put out a few blooms in these last weeks of Summer. Evergreen? Not to sure.

Major Wheeler in May

It continuously pushes out new flowers just at the branch tips on new growth all summer, but I can't find a photo right now.