Plants To Hang Over Retaining Wall

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Plants to hang over retaining wall.

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. Visit our other sites. Add stones to a slope for erosion control creating planting pockets as you go. Passiflora spp commonly known as passionflower and actinidia spp known as kiwi vines grow quickly.

Plants for retaining walls. Vines are among the best plants to cover walls since they climb naturally. Others like honeysuckle twine their stems around hand holds. This ingenious garden wall is crafted from an arbor overlaid over with wire netting.

Department of agriculture plant hardiness zones 6 through 9. Aurinia saxatilis or alyssum saxatile provides a thick glorious mat of bright yellow flowers. I saw it in tucson. Fill the pocket with garden soil add the plant and then carefully secure the next stone.

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. Aubrieta if there s a stone wall in your neighbourhood you ll probably find one of the beautiful aubrieta hybrids. Early blue violets are great for growing in rock crevices. 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.

Arabis rock cress. And they re all perfect choices for hanging baskets too. Plants that grow over a rock retaining wall flowering vines. Potato grow bags let you garden anywhere.

Tuck cascading plants into crevices and let them spill over the top of retaining walls. Antigonon leptopus known as mexican creeper or coral vine is hardy in u s. Early blue violets are great for growing in rock crevices. Sign up for the hot gardens newsletter.

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. Rock garden with creeping thyme early blue violets fire witch pussy toes and succulents. Plants in crevices will soften the appearance of the stone. Some vines like ivy are true climbers that use aerial roots to hold on to surfaces.

Convolvulus sabatius makes a delightful spillover plant or dense groundcover for sunny parts of the garden. You ll have to put in a support to allow these to climb. Rock garden with creeping thyme early blue violets fire witch pussy toes and succulents. The lovely lilac blue trumpet shaped flowers appear through spring and summer.