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Recommendations for plants to grow against a warm south facing wall

jamesharcourtjamesharcourt Posts: 465
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It’s a narrow border up against a white wall and on sunny summer days it gets hot there .... it runs adjacent to pavement to nothing too stealable ideally.

I have about 3-4 metres to fill up.  I already plan to put some bulbs in, but any other suggestions for shrubs or plants?

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 28,826
    Fan trained peaches, apricots, nectarines, kiwis, grapes, figs........   They'll need tensioned wires for support and good soil.  Depnding on variety and your local climate, they need frost protection in winter - fleece blanket sort of thing.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,531
    My thoughts exactly, but how to deter scrumpers?
  • NollieNollie Posts: 6,760
    Chaenomeles and Nandina take a good baking here against pale stone walls that act as giant radiators, don’t need much space to thrive, are relaxed about soil ph and are winter hardy. Perhaps a shrubby salvia, one of the better behaved ones for a narrow border - the red Greggi is a monster spreader. If you have mild winters you could try a Campsis (needs support). Floribunda roses with glossy leaves seem to take anything my weather can throw at them. 
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 82,740
    Grow a Pineapple scented broom - Argyrocytisus battandieri - training it against the wall like a wisteria ... the glorious scent of the blooms on a warm wall is to die for.

    If I had a warm wall that’s what I’d grow 😎 
    “I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.” Winnie the Pooh







  • NollieNollie Posts: 6,760
    Looks interesting @Dovefromabove, what is the flowering season like? I have a little orange-flowered broom (cytisus lena) but it’s only in flower for about a couple of weeks...
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 82,740
    I’ve not grown it myself ... never having the right place 😭  ... I know it best from a walled pub garden near my former home, where it seemed to bloom and fill the garden with its fruity perfume during  most of June/July. 😍 
    “I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.” Winnie the Pooh







  • jamesharcourtjamesharcourt Posts: 465
    Dovefromabove said:
    Grow a Pineapple scented broom - Argyrocytisus battandieri - training it against the wall like a wisteria ... the glorious scent of the blooms on a warm wall is to die for.

    If I had a warm wall that’s what I’d grow 😎 
    Sounds nice but it’s a pebbledash  render and not so easy to attach supports or trellis ... unless it’s something that could self support?
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 28,826
    Posts and tensioned wires between them?  Otherwise grow self supporting shrubs and perennials.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
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