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Regardless of whether it is made of concrete, brick or natural stone, a garden wall made of one of these materials usually looks rather dull and blends in with the green surroundings in a visually unappealing manner. The building can easily be beautified by planting. When it gets old, greening offers another advantage, because the root system of the plants stabilizes the masonry. In the following guide you will find great tips for wall greening.
The gaps in the garden wall are ideal for plants
Wall planting with flowers
If you plant plants in the cracks in the wall, they must be extremely resistant. Not only is the amount of substrate very limited here, the plants also have to cope with wind, heat and cold. However, there are survivors who prefer exactly these conditions:
| plant | description |
|---|---|
| blue pillow | The classic among the plants for wall growth. Is well suited to sunny to semi-shady locations and also tolerates drought well. Blooms profusely purple-blue. |
| roller spurge | Evergreen plant whose fleshy leaves are attractively colored blue-green. Prefers full sun locations. In May June, the plant adorns itself with small, yellow flowers. |
| Fine-leaved weed | This dainty plant only grows about two inches tall. It spreads quickly and loves full sun and lime-poor soil. Flowers rather inconspicuous white. |
| Purple Stonecrop | This sedum species is well suited for wall greening because it grows in low clumps. Between June and August it produces clusters of deep pink-red flowers that attract bees and other insects. |
| Carpet Myrtle Aster | This plant is extremely drought resistant and is therefore also suitable for south-facing walls. It grows about a foot tall and has white flowers from September to October. |
| Carthusian carnation | The name alone indicates how frugal this plant is. Between June and September, the purple-red inflorescences, up to fifty centimeters high, sprout from the compact clumps. The Karthauser carnation seeds itself and colonizes even the smallest cracks in the wall. |
| spur flowers | This plant can be found in many cracks in walls and rocks in its Mediterranean homeland. It has very pretty red or white flowers. |
| candytuft | This evergreen plant produces white, pink or purplish-purple flowers from June to August. The candytuft forms dense cushions and over time grows over the entire wall. |
What is the right way to plant?
You can green drab garden walls from April to September. To do this, proceed as follows:
- Fill joints with a mixture of 50 percent potting soil and 50 percent coarse sand or gravel.
- Since the commercially available plants are usually too big for the narrow cracks in the wall, carefully unpot and divide them.
- Place plants as deep as possible in the joints and cover the root system with substrate.
- Press on and pour in with a fine jet of water so that the substrate is flushed into the crevices in a stable manner.
tips
If you don't want to plant the wall directly, you can green it with climbing plants such as clematis, Virginia creeper, firethorn or ivy.