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Help me decorate a little wall with lovely pots

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HexBramble · 14/04/2014 12:57

Its only about 3foot long and 3 foot wide - gets some sun.
I want to buy some plants and have a bloom of colour with an array of pots - matching pots?. Random mix? Which flowers?

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Pannacotta · 14/04/2014 13:08

It might be easier to plant into the walls if its a brick wall with pointing?
You can put alpine/trailing plants into wall crevices etc and they wont need as much watering as pots would.
Some good info here
www.wildaboutgardens.org.uk/habitats/dry-stone-wall.aspx

HexBramble · 14/04/2014 13:14

Thanks Panacotta, but it's a plain old brick wall. No Central bit. It's the first thing we see when we open the back door so a bloom of
Colour would be lovely.

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LillianGish · 14/04/2014 13:17

Geraniums - sounds boring, but years if experience have taught me that geraniums, which thrive on neglect, love being in pots and even if you go away for a fortnight in summer will still be blooming when you get back. So many different colours - I'm quite traditional and prefer red or white - and you can have upright or trailing or a combination of both. It's a personal preference, but I think all one colour makes a better statement.

LushAndVerdant · 14/04/2014 13:31

How are you going to fix the pots to the wall? I can't do a link, but I have a wall covered with geraniums (pelargoniums) and fuchsias in terracotta pots, held in Spanish rings. The pelargoniums cope fine when we go on holiday, the fuchsias fare less well.

I think you need to make the mix not too random - so if you have a random mix of plants, keep the pots similar (not necessarily identical but similar), if the plants are all the same you could have a more random selection of pots. Without a bit of coherence/uniformity, you risk it looking messy.

Pannacotta · 14/04/2014 13:47

Agree Pelargoniums are good in pots.
If you can scrape out some of the mortar you can grow this which flowers for most of the summer
www.google.co.uk/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=Rs9LU7vDMceG5AbRk4GoCg#q=campanula+poscharskyana

HexBramble · 14/04/2014 14:22

Some lovely suggestions here! Thanks everyone x

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