RE: frost-tolerant hanging plants for south-facing wall

Damian:
The rosemary will grow fairly fast.  Another couple of suggestions,
especially if you would like a tapestry effect of varying colors and
lengths would be Ceratostigma plumbaginoides,(dwarf blue plumbago) - it
will need water in the summer, unlike the rosemary.  Santolina
chamaecyparissus will creep over, but not all 2 meters. But as I say,
you may want some of the wall showing as a background.  You might also
try one of the hot colored climbing roses draping over the side like
'Joseph's Coat', whose bright colors would look spectacular against this
stucco.  Another yellow creeping/climbing rose would look great as well.
Beware of things that grow TOO  fast.  They often end up looking bare
and shabby just a year or two after they filled your space.  Patience is
the mother of good gardening.
Good luck,
Karrie Reid
Folsom Foothill Gardener
Zone 9

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Subject: frost-tolerant hanging plants for south-facing wall

Can anyone makes plant suggestions for a new raised garden in central
Spain?
The plants will hang over 2 metres of south-facing wall and hopefully
cover
it with a cascade of year-round colour and greenery. They need to be
frost
hardy to -10oC /14oF  and should be able to cope with summer
temperatures of
up to schorching 42oC /108oF. Watering in this case not a problem.

Favourite suggestions so far include Rosmarinus spreading cultivars
(like
Rosmarinus officinalis 'Boule') but I would like to mix with
faster-growing
species that will give results in a year or two. We have a lot of wall
to
cover!

The wall can be seen here...
http://img311.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rimg0004edited6np.jpg
(it's the brown wall at the bottom of the picture, it is about 2 metres
high
and it serves as a bank for our future "raised garden" behind it).

Any and all thoughts most welcome....

Damian
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