Our 21st-century lifestyle has left most people with smaller gardens, where each inch of outside space is valuable. Through the use of climbers and wall designs we could expand our planting opportunity, giving us a wealth of shape, colour and feel through the gardening season.
Besides being decorative, climbers have a multitude of applications in the little garden. They soften hard edges, camouflage unsightly structures and even distract the eye from unwanted attributes outside the garden.
Below are some methods to use climbers for both decorative and functional purposes in the backyard.
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Soften Imposing Hardscapes
The bounds of small, enclosed spaces could be overpowering, and through the use of plants we could decorate and even decorate garden walls in the same manner we use wallpaper in our houses.
Here, evergreen ivy covers the wall and surrounds the outside fireplace, but is kept carefully under control. Produce an even more decorative use of ivy by planting different varieties together, letting them raise and interweave for a kaleidoscope of colors.
Jeffrey Gordon Smith Landscape Architecture
This backyard exemplifies a good use of the two main groups of plants which may be used to cover and decorate partitions. Wall shrubs, like the Pyracantha forming the stunning garden archway, are inclined to be slower growing than another type — the climbers.
Climbers can be broken up into free trainings, such as ivy, that use aerial roots to self-attach, and clingy climbers, like clematis, which require some sort of exterior support (such as a trellis) to cling to using their tendrils or leaves.
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Of all the wall vases, Pyracantha is the most used. It is evergreen and produces white flowers in late spring, followed by polyunsaturated berries. Here the Pyracantha was carefully trimmed to associate with the proper, minimalistic garden layout. For a softer look, evergreen wall arches may be interplanted with climbers like summer-flowering clematis or the herbaceous perennial Tropaeolum peregrinum, the ‘Canary Creeper’. If you are planting a shrub-climber combination, ensure that the climber is not too vigorous or it will overwhelm the tree.
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Save Space With Upward Growing
Plants brighten up any border and make it a bit more interesting. If you don’t have space for a wall or hedge tree, climbers could be great space savers in a little backyard — they climb vertically and won’t protrude into the lawn if you offer them a little pruning and care. In this lawn, a free climber conserves area, along with the planting currently seems to flow out of the beds to the peak of the wall in 1 swift movement.
Carson Poetzl, Inc..
Cover a Screen
Some rampant climbers have a bad reputation, but used carefully and kept under control, they may be of fantastic use as screening plants on appropriate structures. The rampant of these climbers in temperate climates is Russian Vine (Fallopia baldschuanica), but this may be treated almost as a topiary through constant trimming and forming of its shoots. Additionally, it has amazing racemes of pink-tinged white flowers held in abundance within the summer time.
MICHAEL HENNESSEY ARCHITECTURE
Boston Ivy (Parthenocissus tricuspidata), another vigorous climber,is a perfect quick cover on a construction employing a self-clinging climber. It is shown here in its own green summer clothing, making an excellent background for paler crops, but its own vinelike leaves provide a dazzling fall screen of red and red.
Scott Lewis Landscape Architecture
Mask Unsightly Surfaces
Climbers can be a form of disguise, softening unattractive walls and camouflaging sheds, garages and outbuildings beneath a cloak of green.
Bright Green
The sheer scope and diversity of climbing plants allows you to translate your individual style. The latest solution is to install a wall. This wall has been set up using a modular planting system supplied by Bright Green. Suitable plants have been grown in cells of their Grovert Planter, which can be adjusted into your wall using brackets. Water trickles down in the top planters or is spread by means of a drip-feed system.
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