Please help with ideas for plants to trail over these walls

Singing Gardener

We've had some landscaping done recently and have two areas of retaining wall which I'd like to soften with some trailing plants. 

The first is about 2 metres high and faces North East.

The other is the top of a two tiered bit so each bit is about 1 metre high and this faces North West.

I was thinking about using climbers as trailing plants but am not sure if this would work or whether they would just try to go up rather than down. Maybe honeysuckle or a perennial sweet pea for example?

Any ideas would be very welcome!

 

 

Dovefromabove

Have a look at herbaceous clematis http://www.taylorsclematis.co.uk/HERBACEOUS-Cut-Flower-Clematis/

They don't climb, and if you don't support they'll flop over and soften the edges of those beds.

If you watch Gardener's World this evening you'll see some

http://www.gardenersworld.com/forum/plants/gardeners-world-tonight/940946.html

 

Singing Gardener

Thanks Dove. I have lots of clematises climbing various things in the garden but oddly it hadn't occurred to me to use them there. Will certainly watch tonight's GW to get some ideas (but not live as OH doesn't enjoy it so I have to record it and watch when he's out!)

Dovefromabove

The herbaceous ones don't climb so I think they'd work well there.