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New wall planters need advice on planting them up :)
Victoria machen
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I've just purchased 4 of these for the top of my horrible breezeblock wall, they will sit on the top and with spaces in between to spread across the length. They are 180cm x 15cm x 17cm. Has anyone got any advice or planting ideas? I'd prefer perennials but I like to mix it up. 
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Morning Tetley, I will get some pictures today for you
I have stone planters just a little bit bigger in width and height. They are too small for perennials but I plant annuals in them each year. Trailing plants that hang down the wall would help make it prettier, such as trailing petunias, million bells, diascia, lobelia etc.
I plant violas in mine in the autumn for spring flowering then dig them up after risk of frost is over and plant summer flowering annuals.
You could paint the wall and, if funds ran to it, put a large planter with trellis attached to the wall and grow a clematis, suitable for growing in a pot.
BL pinched my tip, paint the wall with masonary paint then add a trellis with larger planters at the base and a mix of climbers. Your boxes can be lined with plastic, old compost bags say, drill drainage holes in the base fill with compost and annuals with a couple of trailing plants to hang over the sides. Netting fixed to the wall can also be used as both a screen and support for climbers. You do not have to live with a bad feature, change it or as the army would say camouflage it.
Frank
Pinched it, Frank?
I got there first!
BL, your fingers are younger than mine so you got in before me just. But then I have two washes drying in breezy sunshine, I see by the weather thread that we are one up on you, wiping the grin off my face so put the brush away.
Frank