{"id":7674,"date":"2010-06-06T01:45:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T08:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7674"},"modified":"2010-06-04T01:59:56","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T08:59:56","slug":"plants-for-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/plants-for-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"Plants for Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Campanula in the Wall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4667209298\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4031\/4667209298_351228c9ff.jpg\" alt=\"Campanula\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am fortunate to have a boundary wall that has two skins of stone filled with soil. This makes an habitat for plants that I can use to grow something a bit different.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Pros &amp; Cons of a Filled Wall.<\/strong><\/p>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The wall raises the working height and brings plants nearer to eye level.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The soil is of poor quality as goodness is leached away. This suits some alpines and nasturtiums.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Due to holes somewhere the soil washes out in some spots and I am always looking to refill or stop the leak.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The wall is dry and gets hot in the sun although the stone provides some cooler protection for roots.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Slugs do not like to climb the wall (just send gardeners up it)<\/li>\n<p><a title=\"wall plants\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4666545615\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4035\/4666545615_aec737bbce.jpg\" alt=\"wall plants\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Suitable Plant Types for Walls<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dry condition lovers and sun seekers like Thyme<\/li>\n<li>Plants that like a baking like Pulsatilla<\/li>\n<li>Plants that hold there own water store like Sedums and Houseleeks.<\/li>\n<li>Alpines and similar plants with long roots.<\/li>\n<li>Trailing plants and poor soil plants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Pasque Flower in the wall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3384594087\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3585\/3384594087_b75b421eb7.jpg\" alt=\"Pasque Flower\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Some Plants recommended by Cambridge University Gardening services <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardeninghelpuk.com\/Plants_for_walls_&amp;_paving.htm\">site<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nCrassula sarcocaulis<br \/>\nHelichrysum &#8216;Sulphur Light&#8217;<br \/>\nSedum acre<br \/>\nSempervivum ciliosum<br \/>\nSaxifraga species <!--more--><br \/>\nEuryops acraeus<br \/>\nArtemisia schmidtiana nana<br \/>\nHelianthemum varieties<br \/>\nAjuga reptans<br \/>\nAribis alpina<br \/>\nDianthus deltoides<br \/>\nGeranium dalmaticum<br \/>\nErigeron &#8216;Profusion&#8217;<br \/>\nLewisia cotyledon<br \/>\nLobelia cultivars<br \/>\nPortulaca grandiflora<br \/>\nVinca minor<br \/>\nPhlox douglasii<br \/>\nHypericum olympicum<br \/>\nAlyssum montanum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am fortunate to have a boundary wall that has two skins of stone filled with soil. This makes an habitat for plants that I can use to grow something a bit different. The Pros &amp; Cons of a Filled Wall. The wall raises the working height and brings plants nearer to eye level. The soil is of poor quality as goodness is leached away. This suits some alpines and nasturtiums. Due to holes somewhere the soil washes out in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/plants-for-walls\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}