What kind of plants are good for growing in front of a 8 foot wall to hide it?

Question

I have an 8 foot cement wall in my backyard and I want to plant something to hide it. I've seen plants like ivy growing on walls, but I would like something different than ivy. I live in northern California.

Answer 1

How about jasmine. It runs like a vine plus you will love the fragrance it will produce with the small white blooms. You'll probably need a trellis though. If in a real sunny spot, a climbing rose also. But once again you'll need a trellis.

Answer 2

Humming Bird vine
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hbpeggy/29653880/
Golden Trumphet
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vsny/23472313/
The one below is what is covering my fences. I bought one potted plant 4 years ago I have given starts to I don't know how many people and it covers about 30 feet or more of 4 foot high fence and drops to the bottom 8 feet. I cut it back about 3/4 every falll after leaves drop off. I live in Missouri so you probably wont go dormant like me.
Yellow Trumpet Vine
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Extremely colorful! Clings to walls, climbs without support, covers areas as a ground cover. Also does well in a free-standing position if staked for 2-3 years. Bright green, fernlike foliage forms a lacy backdrop for trumpet-shaped flowers that bloom all summer. Potted plants.
Trumpet Vine - Yellow
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Answer 3

this would properly be a wierd hypothetical. For useful applications it would be easiest to place the twine into a number of new lengths of pipe and dig a clean trench--ideally no longer 4 feet deep. i admire Patti's answer. yet in case you haven't any longer have been given a tame rat obtainable--certainly, thinking the dimensions of the pipe, i think of it would ought to be a mouse--i assume you may attempt securing some fishing line to a properly-greased cork ball slightly smaller than the interior diameter of the pipe and then pushing it via with water from a backyard hose. Then pulling a better twine via with the fishing line. Then pulling the twine via with the good twine.

Answer 4

Some tall plants that don't climb but are pretty......sunflowers, cannas, hollyhocks, delphinium, pampas grass, bamboo. You can try some bushes like lilac, rose-of-sharon, holly, roses, butterfly bush (buddleia), hydrangea. Wisteria is pretty too and can be trained to climb or made into "tree" forms. There are many options available....check with your local nursery to find the best for your particular area and zone.

Answer 5

some vines might not grow on cement walls but you can try them..
morning glories
ivy
clematis
my suggestion would be grow some sun flowers....... they grow really tall and you can dry the heads out at the ends of the season and use the seeds for next year good luck!

Answer 6

Have a day out by walking in your local woodland and looking at bushes that meet your requirment and then take a photogragh of the bush(s) and if you dont know there name ask friends or family and go to your local flower nursery and you'll get them cheaper there.

Answer 7

clematis would be good and it really is beautifull also morning glories would work too and they are pretty as well . there are several vines that would work like bouganvillea and mandeville vine . I hope I helped and happy gardening !!

Answer 8

First two answers are very good, also consider grapes, virginia creepers or cold hardy kiwis.