How To Grow Vines On Concrete Walls
Install wire supports lightweight vines that don t have adhesive discs or tendrils can grow on a support system that is attached to cement walls.
How to grow vines on concrete walls. Plant your climbing vine in spring if you bought it bare root. Attach masonry nails in a grid arrangement across each wall s vertical surface and stretch galvanized wires from nail to nail forming a system of wires. Vines with tendrils and twining stems need something to. Vines that will grow on masonry walls.
Cut back the tip of the vine to encourage branching. Using climbing vines on brick walls can say something about your home and you. Honeysuckle lonicera spp is twining vine with pretty tubular flowers and. Wall purpose if a wall is structural e g part of a house you probably ought to avoid growing plants in it because if there is space for plants there is space for damp to get in and the structure may be deteriorating.
To completely cover a concrete wall plant vines that will spread easily and grow up and over the wall s surface. Be sure the structure is solid enough to hold up the mature vine. I am looking for a vine other than ivy to cover this concrete wall. It is about 9 tall and 40 long.
The plants grow heavier as they establish. Attach wires or a trellis to the wall to provide support for the wall covering plants. If you want old fashioned elegance english ivy or a climbing rose should fit the bill. Best vines for brick walls.
And if you are covering brick walls with vines to disguise some imperfections fast growing virginia creeper or. If you are practical and want fruiting vines a grape or kiwi may be the plant for you. Unless vine plants have holdfasts that cling to any surface you must create a trellis system in order to grow vines on concrete block walls. I was thinking about 5 or so plants and they do not have to cover the entire wall just looking for some visual interest.
On a boundary wall or one held together by mortar with just a few little gaps for planting smaller plants such as.