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Climbers
christine 007
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Does anyone know what climbrs have small roots? I have a small space not deep soil that i would like to put a climber, but not much space?
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When you say not deep soil, if you try and break up the sub soil as much as you can, I have found that most climbers will eventually get their roots down and romp away. I had dreadful soil in the Lake district, put climbing roses in very small holes and they covered a whole house side.
Of course if you plant a climber that is appropriate to the site, light/shade, and feed it , it will do well. Improve the soil and do your research, and take a chance!
Thank you guys, i have a place facing East, but... its at the fence dividing me and next door, at the fence she has her shed then i have fence, bottom of fence is a gap where there is slabs holding soil in, i could take a pic of it, hard to explain, just a gap about 10inch deep i wanted to fill it with compost put a climber in there? its about 15 inch long? Hope that makes sense.. xx
A pic would be really helpful - to upload a picture on here you need to click on the green tree icon on the toolbar above where you type your post and follow the instructions
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Ok will take a pic, but will wait until the rain hails off a bit its pouring here xxx Thanks Dovefromabove will do it shortly.
Here is the pic, as you can see its small area, but want to know if i can shove compost down the gap behind slab and put a climber in there?
Ignore the wet horrid soil, its weedkilled, getting gravel on there tomorrow. xxx
I don't think that anything other than an ivy would manage in that tiny space I'm afraid, and you'd have to start with quite a small one.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I was going to say you need to start with a very small one so it's roots find their own way.
Ivy can be invasive, be careful.
Edit , just looked at picture again. Why not plant some small trailers such as aubretia in the space so they hide the slabs, buy a very big pot place it up to the slabs and then plant something like a clematis in it to grow up the fence, keeping the pot as a permanent feature. Would look good on the gravel you say you are putting down as well
Thank you guys, i once put an ivy cutting outside my old house and before you know it, it was all way up the wall.
Matty2 i like your idea, sounds good, and will i be able to leep aubretia in same pot, i wont ever have to re pot it? Sounds nice.
That part is north but where the fence is, you get the sun through the fence and also the close is there, sun shines up there,, what kind of clematis would i need? Shaded? xx
Just googled aubretia, its beautiful, thanks Matty now need to find a clematis
Put the aubretia and maybe some others to droop over the slabs, so you have a long season of colour-- make them look better
then look here for a clematis - watch how tall they grow, there are different heights
http://www.taylorsclematis.co.uk/
You can use this site as a reference and find clematis in a lot of places - Morrisins are quite good but limited varieties. Could put droopy thigs in pot as well - yes