Neat Plants To Drape Over Retaining Wall
Retaining walls can free up valuable gardening space at and above ground level.
Plants to drape over retaining wall. When steps are combined with retaining walls both are enhanced. You can drape retaining walls with cascading plants such as deer grass. A very popular plant for walls and rockeries colours range from pale lavender to pink to violet-blue.
These deciduous plants grow 4-6 tall and trail 14-18 long. Aubrieta If theres a stone wall in your neighbourhood youll probably find one of the beautiful Aubrieta hybrids spilling over the edge. Naturally floppy but would look great cascading over edge of wall.
Mix with some evergreens but not pointy ones in my opinion go for moundy. Landscape Cover Flowers Resting like a carpet over tracts of a landscape several flowering ground cover plants can also drape slightly over the edge of a retaining wall. Whether you call them spillers trailers or cascaders these plants make great additions to a potted garden or hanging basket for softening edges of the container and helping to blend it into the landscape.
The Axcent series of Aubrietacomes in rich saturated purples and pinks that do an excellent job of softening hardscaping and trailing over walls. A creeping juniper Juniperus horizontalis hardy throughout the Midwest also shows off beautifully if allowed to drape itself over a sunny retaining wall. The steps break up the walls expanse and the walls adds interest to the stairway.
Bacopa is a vigorous grower that will quickly spread and cascade over a wall. Irene is the best spreading Rosemary notable for its profuse display of bright blue flowers. Vines are among the best plants to cover walls since they climb naturally.
Drought resistantdrought tolerant plant xeric. These are just a few of our favorite trailing annuals for Indianapolis gardens. Robert Brydon or Betty Corning in that space since it is a huge monster of a plant.