Plants To Hang Over Retaining Wall

Department of agriculture plant hardiness zones 6 through 9.

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. 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. Rock garden with creeping thyme early blue violets fire witch pussy toes and succulents.

Convolvulus sabatius makes a delightful spillover plant or dense groundcover for sunny parts of the garden. Plants that grow over a rock retaining wall flowering vines. La city pix real people in los angeles. You ll have to put in a support to allow these to climb.

10 top perennials for garden walls 1. Visit our other sites. Plants in crevices will soften the appearance of the stone. This ingenious garden wall is crafted from an arbor overlaid over with wire netting.

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. Early blue violets are great for growing in rock crevices. Plants for retaining walls. Get the tutorial at home made lovely.

Tuck cascading plants into crevices and let them spill over the top of retaining walls. Native to coastal areas of western asia shore juniper juniperus conferta takes full sun to partial shade in u s. I saw it in tucson. Potato grow bags let you garden anywhere.

Vines are among the best plants to cover walls since they climb naturally. Aurinia saxatilis or alyssum saxatile provides a thick glorious mat of bright yellow flowers. Others like honeysuckle twine their stems around hand holds. Fill the pocket with garden soil add the plant and then carefully secure the next stone.

Some vines like ivy are true climbers that use aerial roots to hold on to surfaces. The lovely lilac blue trumpet shaped flowers appear through spring and summer. Arabis rock cress. Sign up for the hot gardens newsletter.

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. Early blue violets are great for growing in rock crevices. Passiflora spp commonly known as passionflower and actinidia spp known as kiwi vines grow quickly. And they re all perfect choices for hanging baskets too.