Plants That Will Hang Over Walls

Prune chenille plant to keep it healthy longer.

Plants that will hang over walls.

Vines are among the best plants to cover walls since they climb naturally. Attach wires or a trellis to the wall to provide support for the wall covering plants. Trailing plants to cover a wall. Department of agriculture hardiness zones 9 and 10.

Most people like to hang air plants in glass terrariums filled with colorful accents and trinkets. The vines will need to be trellised in some fashion in order to promote good airflow and to keep the vines orderly. Indeterminate cherry tomatoes are a vining type of plant that will grow multiple vines to cover your garden wall. Keep your plant in a spot with good air circulation and plenty of bright light.

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. Others like honeysuckle twine their stems around hand holds. Chenille plant acalypha hispida makes an impression immediately. Arrowhead plant syngonium podophyllum.

Convolvulus sabatius makes a delightful spillover plant or dense groundcover for sunny parts of the garden. Fuzzy red flowers trail down from deep green foliage earning the houseplant the nickname red hot cat s tail. Planting ideas for garden walls. Other climbing plants could also be used this way.

The plants grow heavier as. This splendid but. Take advantage of this plant s vibrancy and hang it somewhere that needs a little color. Antigonon leptopus known as mexican creeper or coral vine is hardy in u s.

Classic climbers like clematis and roses will thrive on walls while providing up to six months of flower. The root system can be planted at the top of your garden and will need plenty of soil to keep it properly supported. Be sure the structure is solid enough to hold up the mature vine. Plants that grow over a rock retaining wall.

Plants with a trailing habit such as ivy leaved toadflax are designed for cascading down rock faces or scree slopes and can thrive in a wall. Aubrietas are ideal creeping over a low wall or growing in its crevices but many are rather. In desert climates korean boxwood is a better choice. Spilling over the top of the wall is brighter green ornamental grass and behind that on top a low growing hedge of english boxwood buxus microphylla which encloses a traditional lawn.

You ll have to put in a support to allow these to climb. The lovely lilac blue trumpet shaped flowers appear through spring and summer. A colourful companion for the aubrietia would be this slightly more billowing plant with masses of. Aubrieta doctor mules.