How to Choose a Ground Cover for Walls

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Ground covers can soften the look of a wall and provide additional placement for flowering plants. Choose a plant such as Euonymus fortunei that will climb or grow up the wall from the base, or select a plant such as Vinca minor that will start at the top and cascade over the wall.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

Step1
Choose plants that can drape branches down, such as Rubus pentalobus, for the top of a wall.
Step2
Choose some mounding plants such as blue fescue for the top of the wall to help cover the woody bases of other plants.
Step3
Choose plants that can grow up against a wall and display ornamental branch patterns, such as Cotoneaster horizontalis, for the bottom of a wall.
Step4
Decide how many plants you'll need to get by using rocks to represent the plants. Place them at intervals according to how wide the plants grow, then count up the rocks.

Tips & Warnings

  • Choose a ground cover appropriate for your USDA plant hardiness zone (see Related Sites).

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