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Climbing plant, is it possible???

williamspencer98williamspencer98 Posts: 7
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I’ve got a brick walled patio courtyard and on one of the walls there is approx 20cm depth where there is a gap between the paving and the brick wall. In this gap there is a good depth of soil and I’d like to grow a climbing plant up this part of the wall, see pic.

my concern is that 20cm depth may not be enough to plant something? Would I need to take up some of the slabs to make the plant space bigger? The width is approx 80cm so that is OK. 

The wall is west facing, any suggestions on plants?

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I'd lift a slab for each plant and improve the soil to the best condition you can. It'll be worth the effort when you plant something into it.
    Devon.
  • valerierobertsvalerieroberts Posts: 726
    @williamspencer98 hello, what a wonderful project. If you take out a paving and enrich the soil as suggested it will be good as hostafan suggests if will be good. Are you going to paint the wall before you plant? you can plant climbing roses ,clematis, solanum album, evergreen jasmine just have a look in few catalogues. Floyds climber,;thornyCroft’s catalogue, Beales roses online. Numerous ones to look through are still sending out plants by post. Valerie
  • williamspencer98williamspencer98 Posts: 7
    Thank you! Yes the walls are being shot blasted this week which is super exciting to take the walls back to exposed brick! Got plenty of container plants ready for pots but would just like some interest on the walls hence my question! My first home and garden so will be trial and error haha! 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    williamspencer98 said:
    Thank you! Yes the walls are being shot blasted this week which is super exciting to take the walls back to exposed brick!
    Take it gently with the blasting. It's easy to find you are suddenly missing chunks of wall if you go in too hard and it's an old wall. You can take brick surfaces off little by little but it's hard to put it back.

    Roses could look amazing climbing over that space. Choose well.

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