For a front entrance you could use two Alibaba pots, painted the mustard colour with an archway of trellising around a white door (or the other way around), use white pots with dark green trellis with star jasmine around a ‘mustard’ coloured front door. And you can transfer this idea and colour scheme to a front entrance just as easily.īut of course, you may choose a different creeper and and then different colour schemes will suggest themselves besides, in nature, plain white works anytime. The dark coloured walls with the white planters, dark glossy leaves of the jasmine with its fragrant little white flowers will have you calm in a few seconds and shake of a puppy’s tail at the end of a hard day. I hope you can imagine it, this is the one that I saw, so I was inspired to share the idea with you all because it looked so striking. For now I choose Star Jasmine, (Jasminum multiflorum) white painted planters and sturdy wooden trellis against a deep painted mustard-coloured and rough plastered brick wall. Not all creepers need to be supported beyond finding a wall to grow against, so adapt and choose. Using trellis? Plant this at the back of the planter so that your creeper can be trained up to start. Prepare the soil with the additives and compost and fill them. Place the planters alongside the wall in their drip trays. Options for a creeper Star Jasmine may mean four to six rectangular planters, good rich dark soil, bonemeal and compost and mulch to finish off. Is your wall to be painted? Clad in mosaic? Mirrored? Have you chosen the colour? The texture? Or has it chosen you and you are working along with what you have got? Not only will you want to read them again, you may or will want to refer to them if you need to buy plants soils and composts etc And if you ever need to do this kind of project again, well then you have these notes and ideas that may have been rejected here but which will be useful in other places and spots. What does not work for you today may just be the right idea for a tomorrow. How big is the space to be covered? How many containers will you need? What about light, sunshine, space for growing, height, shape of space under discussion? Get your gardening notebook out and make all the notes in the world please, jot down workable ideas, go lateral in your thinking, add bits and pieces and no matter how odd the idea may seem, write them down. So, starting with an ugly wall what needs to be done? As with any project you have to take stock of the situation see what you have got and then decide what you need and can or will do. Use the ideas too for the front of the house, an area that if inside your home, might be used to display a fancy carpet or other kind of objet d’art. And what is more it can be changed around, the idea is not only for stoops and patios or balconies but for any wall around the house including the front a side wall a swimming pool area to create a wind break a miniature effect for an odd space somewhere.Ī living frame for the main front entrance is charming – I have just seen one and couldn’t believe what this gardener achieved with a few items, a bit of work and the right props. Got a blank wall you can't paint? A brick wall that has seen better days? A stone wall or ledge that seems stark and unyielding? Here is some advice and a solution or two to consider. Using a flowering creeper planted and perhaps supported in a container as ‘a cure’ for hiding an ugly wall or to provide you with a hangover or vertical garden look you will want is smart thinking and action!
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