Retaining Wall Border Plants

Belladonna lilies have attractive agapanthus like foliage and large fragrant blooms.

Retaining wall border plants. Belladonna lilies amaryllis belladonna are one of the many bulbs you could grow in a narrow border. Its vibrant yellow color blends well with the green plants. Now fill the remaining space with garden soil and plants flowers and trees. Creeping out over the soil over low retaining walls and over logs edging shady borders it produces roots at every leaf joint as it goes.

The combination of plants pictured consists of hart s tongue ferns mind your own businessand brunnera. For shady walls epiphytic plants such as bromeliads and ferns can be mounted during summer onto walls posts or rustic branches. True climbers take up little ground space and are excellent choices for smaller gardens whereas wall shrubs require more ground space. Wisteria is a good option to train against a wall.

A curved gabion retaining wall on a concrete courtyard lined with garden plants. An often undervalued feature of any outdoor space a brick or stone garden wall has the power to achieve incredible results. All bulbs don t take up lots of room so are great for planting in narrow borders. The right garden wall bricks can breathe new life into your garden whether it s a fresh focal point supporting structures or retaining parts of a sloped space.

They re good plant partners for salvias and echinaceas. Plan your retaining wall while leaving enough space behind it to put in a decent sized garden bed. Clematis roses wisteria and honeysuckle. When you backfill the space use paver base gravel and a tamp to flatten and solidify the base.

In practice most stützmauer art are made from drywall and have been an important aspect of european homes in this form since time immemorial. A retaining wall in the garden can be built in granite gneiss sandstone and other different materials. Towering gabion retaining walls serving as a fence around the house.