Plants To Hang Over Retaining Wall

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Plants to hang over retaining wall.

Early blue violets are great for growing in rock crevices. Antigonon leptopus known as mexican creeper or coral vine is hardy in u s. Visit our other sites. This ingenious garden wall is crafted from an arbor overlaid over with wire netting.

The lovely lilac blue trumpet shaped flowers appear through spring and summer. Add stones to a slope for erosion control creating planting pockets as you go. Potato grow bags let you garden anywhere. Arabis rock cress.

Tuck cascading plants into crevices and let them spill over the top of retaining walls. Convolvulus sabatius makes a delightful spillover plant or dense groundcover for sunny parts of the garden. And they re all perfect choices for hanging baskets too. Aubrieta if there s a stone wall in your neighbourhood you ll probably find one of the beautiful aubrieta hybrids.

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. Passiflora spp commonly known as passionflower and actinidia spp known as kiwi vines grow quickly. Department of agriculture plant hardiness zones 6 through 9. Others like honeysuckle twine their stems around hand holds.

Rock garden with creeping thyme early blue violets fire witch pussy toes and succulents. Rock garden with creeping thyme early blue violets fire witch pussy toes and succulents. Plants for retaining walls. Some vines like ivy are true climbers that use aerial roots to hold on to surfaces.

Fill the pocket with garden soil add the plant and then carefully secure the next stone. 10 top perennials for garden walls 1. Early blue violets are great for growing in rock crevices. Native to coastal areas of western asia shore juniper juniperus conferta takes full sun to partial shade in u s.

Plants in crevices will soften the appearance of the stone. 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. I saw it in tucson. 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.

Sign up for the hot gardens newsletter. Aurinia saxatilis or alyssum saxatile provides a thick glorious mat of bright yellow flowers. 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. Plants that grow over a rock retaining wall flowering vines.