This plant provides great drifts of white flowers that cascade over walls for a lovely effect.
Plants for hanging over retaining walls.
Creating beauty on retaining walls.
Apr 13 2012 i spent a week in germany in early may visiting family and appreciating the spring blooms.
The retaining wall a wall built to hold soil in and raise the level of an area of landscape can stand at sharp contrast with the rest of the garden.
Best plants to cover walls.
Depending on the plants growth.
Trailing weeping or vining plants can be utilized to cover a rock retaining wall with lush foliage and bright flowers.
Its bright foliage is at its most buttery yellow in spring the shoots are lined with shining yellow flowers in summer and it forms a colourful mat around bolder plants like hostas.
Forms a large mat of flowers in loose clusters and may be too invasive for a small area.
Gigantic upright agaves and large flax phormium add drama.
You ll find many plants suitable to hide a wall but the best plants to cover walls depend on your personal preferences.
Plants that grow over a rock retaining wall.
In the photo silvery green helichrysum cascades over the edge.
You might try flowering vines to add decorative effect like the following.
Dig a hole for the vine about 18 inches away from the base of the wall insert the plant and refill with good soil.
Wall purpose if a wall is structural e g part of a house you probably ought to avoid growing plants in it because if there is space for plants there is space for damp to get in and the structure may be deteriorating.
Whether you re creating beautiful planted containers or want to soften the edges of raised garden beds and retaining walls cascading plants are fabulously useful.
Although it rained the entire time i was there i was able to get a few photos to showcase a few gardens.
On a boundary wall or one held together by mortar with just a few little gaps for planting smaller plants such as.
Cascading flowers for sunny retaining walls.
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.
Cerastium tomentosum snow in summer or snow on the mountain is a great plant for spilling from crevices in walls.
Garden walls can serve a range of purposes.