Dress my wall!

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I am a novice gardener and have a recently de-ivied brick wall.

I would like to cover it up with something green, which will not grow to unmanageable proportions. The soil available is in the bed to the right hand side, which is London soil.

Ideally I would not have to make a lot of holes in the wall, but a few would be ok.

I was wondering about wisteria, but think that may not like the necessary pruning?

Any advice as to plants/trellis/other gratefully received

Trachelospernum is evergreen, has a lovely scent and looks great against a brick wall. We have it by our patio. It does need some support but a trellis would be enough.
Otherwise a jasmine? But not evergreen.

NOT wisteria

Flowering annuals like cobea scandens and ipomea and nasturtium
in a frame of campsis radicans and passiflora
with some extra tropeleum tuberosum and apois americana

all of the above can be trained on wires and hacked back in winter

Thats a lovely wall! I wouldn't want to cover too much of it at all especially as you have gone to the trouble of de-I vying Maybe a spring flowering clematis which would be fairly easy to keep under control. Flowers in spring, leaves and seed heads the rest of the year. Are ygoing to keep the table and seating there? Something scented would be nice. I have a summer flowering Jasmine but it's a bit rampant and I am not very good at keeping it under control at all as my neighbours will tell you. If you can find a scented climbing rose that is not too thorny that could work, with a honey suckle to go up and then along the top of the wall. Talking of which I would try to get some sedums or other little succulants started on the top of the wall in the nooks and crannies, they will soften it a bit and be great for bees and other pollinators. One they are established they will sort themselves out.As its a london wall some London Pride would be great there too.

What direction does it face, you could go really off piste and grow some sort of fan trained fruit tree. Or a fig tree contained in a pot leaving the side earth for something else.

Ps you need to work on that "london soil". Start a small compost heap, or wormery , or if that isn't possible make sure you never throw teabags, egg shells or coffee grounds away, put them straight on the soil. If you see reduced bags of compost in the garden centre snap them up and spread on your soil. Find your nearest riding stable and get some horse manure from them. If you have things in pots that need repotting or that die never throw the soil away. My garden is london soil but it is beautiful, stuffed full of worms!

Roses will enjoy even clay London soil if they get sun and water - I have not very thorny Ghislaine de Feligonde, for instance.

You could also try an evergreen honeysuckle if you can shade the roots.

@viques it is a tiny garden, and that is the only place the furniture can go. I would love something scented. All your suggestions sound great.

I had never even thought of planting something on top of a wall. Do you need to put soil there? The wall is East facing. I have ordered some trellis, and have visions of something beautiful growing through it.

I have a jasmine on the other side of the garden that is going a bit rampant, and a honeysuckle just along that never seems to flower.

Will get started on a compost heap too.

Thanks everyone