Wall planting with flowers
If you place 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 precisely these conditions:
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| plant | description |
|---|---|
| Blue pillows | The classic among the plants for wall growth. Is well suited for sunny to partially shaded locations and also tolerates drought well. Blooms profusely purple-blue. |
| Rolled grinder milk | Evergreen plant with fleshy leaves that are attractive blue-green in color. Prefers full sun locations. In May June the plant is adorned with small, yellow flowers. |
| Fine-leaved broken herb | This delicate plant only grows to about two inches tall. It spread quickly and loves locations in full sun and soils that are poor in lime. Flowers rather inconspicuous white. |
| Purple sedum | This Sedum species is well suited for wall greening, as it grows in low clumps. Between June and August it forms dark pink flower umbrellas 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 to about a foot tall and blooms white from September to October. |
| Carthusian carnation | The name already suggests how frugal this plant is. The purple-red inflorescences up to fifty centimeters high sprout from the compact clumps between June and September. The Karthauser carnation settles on its own and colonizes even the smallest cracks in the wall. |
| Spurflowers | In its Mediterranean home, this plant can be found in many crevices and crevices in the rock. It blooms very nicely in red or white. |
| Candytuft | This evergreen plant bears white, pink or purple-violet flowers from June to August. the Candytuft forms dense cushions and over time grows over the entire wall. |
How do you plant correctly?
Dreary You can green garden walls from April to September. Proceed as follows:
- Grout with a mixture of 50 percent Potting soil and fill with 50 percent coarse sand or gravel.
- Since most of the commercially available plants are too big for the narrow cracks in the wall, carefully pot them up and divide them.
- Place plants as deep as possible in the joints and cover the roots with substrate.
- Press on and pour on with a fine jet of water so that the substrate is rinsed stably into the crevices.
Tips
If you do not want to plant the wall directly, you can use climbing plants such as Clematis, Wild Wine, Firethorn or green ivy.