What to grow in my ugly wall (pics)

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As you can see, we have a ugly garden wall. We don't have the funds to knock ugly wall down and replace so I thought of maybe planing some trailing plants in it. To hide the wall a bit and sort of trial over all natural like. Then I remembered I know nothing about gardening!

Any advice please? What plants and when?

Cheap, cheerful and temporary ? I'd suggest nasturtium grown from seed.

If its sunny then a low level lavender would look good - you can by them by the dozen for edging thing.

I'm sure someone will come along with better ideas than me !

I would suggest saponaria and campanula , you could also look on here
for ideas
www.rhs.org.uk/plants/articles/graham-rice/10-agm-trailing-plants
www.plantsforsmallgardens.co.uk/search.asp?types=Trailing+plants

Wow! here's a good selection:

search.thompson-morgan.com/seeds/Trailing%20Plants

Also, fuchsia are very easy to grow, there are many colour forms, and they would look spectacular!

www.fuchsiaflower.co.uk/index.htm

Thank so much for the advice and links. I did have a little look online but it's very over whelming! I'll print these out and get to the garden centre to see what they have.

I was planning on pulling up what's in there now and putting some compost in. Is there anything else obvious I need to do?

Just make sure there is some drainage at the bottom of the wall- is it enclosed? Just some broken plant pots or small stones will work fine

That's a good point, I don't know how far the inset part goes, or what's inside it, I'll have to have a dig. Quite looking forward to it!

Snow in summer is good... It will cascade down and hide the walls, and is very tolerant of neglect. You'd probably want to put other things in with it.

www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plant_finder/plant_pages/167.shtml

Top up with a soil-based (John Innes) compost rather than peat based one which will dry out. Sempervivums/houseleeks are fairly indestructible, don't mind dry conditions and will spread over the edge, if not trail.

if you wanted something evergreen you could put some box (buxus sempervirens) balls along and in summer intersperse with some summer bedding for colour but the box would give you some structure in winter.

I'm looking at trailing plants and found this page quite useful

www.rhs.org.uk/plants/articles/graham-rice/10-agm-trailing-plants
I'm going for creeping phlox, saponara and Osteospermum.

Thank you for all your suggestions, I'm going to have to digest it all and print it out as I'll forget all the names! My ugly walls going to be beautiful!