Fantastic Trailing Plants For Walls
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Trailing plants for walls. It features bright green leaves with pretty little flowers in shades of white lavender and pink. Although its possible to grow plants in a freestanding wall retaining walls are better suited for plantings because the earth behind a retaining wall supplies moisture to the planting pockets. Nothing does a better job of edging a path tumbling over the edges of containers or rolling over rock walls and rock gardens.
The plant has a nice mounding habit and cascades gracefully over rocks walls and raised beds. Trailing edibles are ideal for walls go for plants like squashes and tomatoes which can be grown down in the vertical space. Its toothed heart-shaped leaves are evergreen.
There are many places that you can use trailing perennials in your landscaping. Secure a slope with stones for a modified rock garden. Irene is the best spreading Rosemary notable for its profuse display of bright blue flowers.
They are also easier to build because the soil behind them provides good backing for the wall. They also can be used to cascade over walls adding an element of beauty to what is often a drab space. They often make a great addition to flowerbeds where they can serve as natural borders.
There are a variety of plants suitable for this situation but the three plants I have trailing over my dry stone wall are Arabis Aubrieta and Saponaria. There are many choices of trailing plants to choose from both asRead More. No matter what you call them these lovely growers are eye-catching and give an added element to plantings.
In the garden I think of them as ground covers while the container world calls them spillers. Whether spreading out on the ground in the landscape flowing over the side of a container or the final spiller in a hanging basket trailing plants are a must have for gardeners. Trailing plants cascading plants or spiller plants.