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Flowers to grow along high fence?

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skirt · 13/04/2012 16:12

Does anyone have any recommendations for which seeds to sow that will give me flowers along a high fence? I've just dug a border along about 18ft of fence in a bid to tidy up our dull side garden. It gets the sun in the afternoon and the soil seems in quite decent condition. I cant afford millions of bedding plants so thought seeds would do the job bit I've no idea which. I'd like them all to be one colour too but dont really care what colour that would be.

We live on the coast too, if that matters? Grateful for any hints you could give.

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O2BNormal · 13/04/2012 16:26

Sweet peas, smell lovely and the more you pick the more you get, so can have cut flowers for the house all summer too. Or runner beans have lovely flowers and food too! You'll need to put some wires or netting on the fence for them to cling to.

skirt · 13/04/2012 16:52

Can you scramble sweet peas up runner bean plants? That would be doubly good? Thanks for that

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O2BNormal · 13/04/2012 17:24

Not sure I'd want to let the peas grown up the beans, but no reason you couldn't grow them as alternate plants to get a mixture.

IDismyname · 13/04/2012 17:26

Sunflowers?

skirt · 13/04/2012 21:35

why o2b? and blue I thought about dwarf sunflowers too!

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ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 13/04/2012 22:47

Cobaea scandens and black eyed Susan (thunbergia alata) are both easy climbers. Clematis, honeysuckle and climbing roses would give you some permanent coverage.

skirt · 14/04/2012 00:52

Good o. Thanks, I've taken a scraggy clematis that wasnt doing anything in a pot in the back garden, and put it in the border earlier, and will look for those tomorrow. Thanks

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