Plants To Hang Over Retaining Wall

Department of agriculture plant hardiness zones 6 through 9.

Plants to hang over retaining wall.

And they re all perfect choices for hanging baskets too. Add stones to a slope for erosion control creating planting pockets as you go. Some vines like ivy are true climbers that use aerial roots to hold on to surfaces. Tuck cascading plants into crevices and let them spill over the top of retaining walls.

Fill the pocket with garden soil add the plant and then carefully secure the next stone. Antigonon leptopus known as mexican creeper or coral vine is hardy in u s. Above the dark green leaves crowded spikes of pink flowers open on short stems darkening as they mature and the whole plant spreads tightly across rocks and down over retaining walls. The lovely lilac blue trumpet shaped flowers appear through spring and summer.

With their long trailing stems these are plants that grow naturally as groundcovers but when given a little height will attractively cover the vertical rather than the horizontal. Visit our other sites. I saw it in tucson. Early blue violets are great for growing in rock crevices.

Fill little clay pots with pretty posies hang them from the netting and you ve got a garden wall that will be the envy of the neighborhood. Others like honeysuckle twine their stems around hand holds. Aubrieta if there s a stone wall in your neighbourhood you ll probably find one of the beautiful aubrieta hybrids. You ll have to put in a support to allow these to climb.

Early blue violets are great for growing in rock crevices. Plants that grow over a rock retaining wall flowering vines. Many of the plants in this selection are relatively early flowering but this evergreen mat forming perennial flowers in summer and continues well into autumn. Potato grow bags let you garden anywhere.

Vines are among the best plants to cover walls since they climb naturally. Plants in crevices will soften the appearance of the stone. La city pix real people in los angeles. Convolvulus sabatius makes a delightful spillover plant or dense groundcover for sunny parts of the garden.

Native to coastal areas of western asia shore juniper juniperus conferta takes full sun to partial shade in u s. Arabis rock cress. Rock garden with creeping thyme early blue violets fire witch pussy toes and succulents. Sign up for the hot gardens newsletter.

Passiflora spp commonly known as passionflower and actinidia spp known as kiwi vines grow quickly. Aurinia saxatilis or alyssum saxatile provides a thick glorious mat of bright yellow flowers. Get the tutorial at home made lovely. This ingenious garden wall is crafted from an arbor overlaid over with wire netting.