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- Use climbing plants as a screen in the garden
- Hide unsightly spots on the fly
- The art of vertical design
- Popular climbing plants for the blind in the garden
- Creepers choose their respective characteristics with care
- Tips
Wild wine is a very attractive screen, especially in autumn
Use climbing plants as a screen in the garden
If an existing fence is to be supplemented with an opaque screen, then climbing plants may be an uncomplicated and attractive alternative to the traditional sight hedges. In addition, such a high visual protection can be realized, from the storm less danger to buildings and residents emanate as high trees.
Hide unsightly spots on the fly
Almost every garden owner knows the feeling, if certain blemishes in a garden can not be fixed quickly and temporarily should be concealed as well as possible. In such a case, a temporary screen of creepers is almost appropriate. To do this, simply insert a climbing aid, such as a metal tomato stick, into the ground or stretch a plastic net like a wall between two wooden posts. Then put in place the seeds of morning glory, Wicken, Schwarzäugiger Susanne or the climbing nasturtium into the ground. These one-year climbing plants ensure effective privacy within a few weeks and also enrich the garden with its attractive flowers.
The art of vertical design
While hillside situations can be played with different height levels and their relationship to each other, flat terrain gardens offer much less potential in this regard. This does not mean, however, that in a garden with a straight soil profile only different flowerbeds, lawns and hedges can line up. In addition to the tall trees, climbing plants can also open up new dimensions in garden design, directing the view towards the summery blue sky. In your garden, ideally always pay attention to a sensible gradation of the different plant species according to their stature heights. Thus, a climbing plant can provide the colored background for perennial beds or a colorful compiled farm garden due to the achievable height.
Popular climbing plants for the blind in the garden
There are some climbing plants, which have proven themselves as wall and roof greening as well as hedge-like privacy protection:
While the ivy is a climbing plant with evergreen foliage, the tendrils of the wild wine or the Schling-Knöterich during the winter months look quite naked and bleak. But the Wild Wine also offers a blood red autumn color, which can provide stunning effects in the garden.
Creepers choose their respective characteristics with care
You should not underestimate the amount of leaves that can be produced from a single, handsome specimen of Wild Wine every fall. The poisonous wisteria can present a danger with its particularly decorative flowers, if children regularly play unattended in a garden. Because the ivy is a typical forest plant, it is particularly suitable for shady locations. The Schling-Knöterich is a valuable source of nectar for flowering time for many species of insects, garden sheds and other buildings should be protected in time before its pronounced vigor, so that the tendrils cause no damage to the building fabric.
Tips
Although hops are a perennial climbing plant, the shoots do not lignify and die over the winter. Nevertheless, a hop plant can reach considerable heights after a few years at one location, because the grown root ball makes the plant rise faster every year in spring.