What can I plant in this?

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A wall hanging tiered planter similar to the ones pictured.

I’ve tried herbs - they all got eaten by snails and nothing seemed to deter them. Lavender all died really quickly. Flowering alpine plants and trailing plants also died.

I’m at a loss to know what to put in it. It has good drainage and is in a spot which isn’t too shady or too sunny but nothing will stay alive in it. I watered it regularly but not over watered.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you!

Strawberries would look great in one of those.

how about giving some wildflower seeds a go? They don’t need watering too often and adapt to the environment they’re in

Wildflower seeds sounds interesting. It would nice to have something for bees.

I have similar but mine are separate pots. I grow strawberries, alpine plants and bedding plants in mine

How do you stop snails eating the strawberries?

I go out every evening quite late and remove them.

Japanese honeysuckle? may take over though but lovely flowers and smells divine.
What are those ornamental peas called? they would also look good with lots of different coloured flowers.

I am a total novice as may be apparent but good luck, they look really great

Things that naturally grow on walls would probably grow quite well there like Snapdragons, wallflowers erigeron karvinskianus, feverfew, Michaelmas daisies, ferns. They tend to be pretty pest, snail and drought resistant too. Shallow rooted annuals like poppies, cornflowers, nasturtium would also grow there too.

Sweet peas I meant :-)

I was planning one of those to grow salad crops in-(lettuce, rocket, chives, basil etc)- have to say I would have thought the gravel and then the climb up the brick would stop snails so interested this was not your experience. We have a secondhand plastic system so maybe need to consider a chunky wooden frame to provide a perilous overhang for the little blighters! Or a beer moat??

Put copper tape around the edges to keep the snails at bay.

I tried that, it didn’t work! 😀

I originally had the herbs in pots with gravel in the bottom of the planter and copper tape on all the edges. Every morning, there would be at least half a dozen snails. I could actually see them on the cctv at night crawling across the roof and down the wall of the outbuilding it’s hanging on to get at the plants. They were tenacious little shits.

I’m loving the idea of honeysuckle or wildflowers. I’ll give it a go. Currently the tiers are lined with a membrane to try and stop it drying out too quickly, do you think I should remove this?

I have annuals in a similar thing.
marigolds and geraniums arent loved by slugs. They also ignore my chives. They ignore begonias too

Sempervivum if you like those. They spread quickly, I started with 5 a couple of years ago and now have about 30 mini ones in shallow bowl shaped pots. They only get watered when it rains.

Strawberries, trailing rosemary, sedums.

Trailing pelargoniums? Slugs and snails don't like them.

Definitely not honeysuckle or sweet peas! You need small plants that don't take too much water, not big climbers.

Thyme should do well, sedums, sempervivum, anything recommended for a green roof. You could try hanging basket plants like petunias or geraniums.

Snails are meant to dislike mint, so you could try underplanting strawberries with corsican mint.

Salad leaves might work, depending on exactly how much sun it gets - too much and they'll go to seed quickly. Dwarf french beans perhaps - but they are prone to snail chomping when young. Depending on the size of the trough you might just about get away with tumbling Tom tomatoes but you'd need to water a lot (or ideally set up a continuois drip system).

Brick walls definitely don't stop snails. We regularly have them on our house walls, up at first floor level.

Is there good drainage on it? Just wondering why so much has died in it and whether it was something to do with the planter itself

The problem is more likely to be too much drainage than too little. And putting things in smaller pots inside the planter rather than filling the whole trough with compost.

Treat it like a hanging basket - you want to design it to keep water in, not let it out. Definitely don't remove the liner, and I'd add water retaining gel or seaweed to the compost as well.

Trailing nasturtiums.
Trailing pelargoniums.

Don't bother with petunias or regular bedding plants, they'll get eaten.
Although brachycomes. Blue/ purple daisies might work.

Herbs would do well but slugs love basil.

Maybe smear the lower levels with Vaseline to deter them ?

Bizzie Lizzie's would look nice.

Wild flowers have the same range of conditions as garden flowers! From succulents capable of surviving long periods of drought to obligate bog dwellers. Agreed “wildflower” seeds are often cornfield weeds, so preferring light soil, but they still need watering.

My guess is that the planter is extremely difficult to water, and that once the compost is dry it won’t re-wet and the water just runs through. And that everything did, in fact, die from lack of water.

Try sempervivums and other succulents?