Walls Is Greater: There are many small gardens where the potential growing space on the walls is greater than the ground area available. This space should never be wasted; climbers not only increase the range of plants that you can grow in your garden, they also screen what can otherwise be rather bleak walls and fences. Although some, such as wisteria, are planted with the long-term in mind, there are many that will grow rapidly. Make the most of walls and fences, poles and arbors and clothe them with climbers.
ONCE YOU have created your framework planting, add some seasonal color and interest using a range of perennials, annuals, biennials and bulbs.
When choosing climbers for planting against houses or high walls, the direction that they will face must be considered since climbers on shaded walls will get little direct sunshine; those on some sunny walls may get too much; and those on walls with sun for part of the day may be exposed to cold winds. The problem hardly arises with fences, since plants quickly rise above them. The soil close to house walls can be dry, and until climbers become established they may need regular watering.See Also Massive Walls Provided:Massive walls provided the buttressing, although buttress strips on the outside gave visible expression to this func¬tion ; these walls also made a clearstory possible. The vault itself was changed from a four part to a six part vault by the addition above the inter¬mediate piers of extra transverse ribs. These ribs created four instead of two triangles of vault¬ing next to the walls of the church, and therefore made the intermediate pier carry part of the weight of the nave vaults in addition to part of the aisle vaults.
To quote from my own notes made on the spot: "You enter through a series of massive stone gates (four) and walk down a crescent street between stone walls that seem to hit the sky, and from the walls jut out three of the world's oddest chapels. You go through one more gate and are in a world apart, a broad picture street called Placa, built over a former canal. Yard-wide alleys branch off on both sides from Placa. Everywhere is VENICE. Not canals, but the whole stamp of Venetian influence in luxury, art and arrogant show of power."
On The Other Hand See The Walls:the wallsy are expensive to build but need essentially no upkeep. Walls are of especial value for supporting terraces and othe wallsr places where soil must be retained. Such supporting walls may be built with cement or be dry walls made without cement.
Informal groups of trees and shrubs are good as "walls" where space permits. •
the walls same shade of blue has been used on the walls lower walls, beneath the walls dado rail, and on the walls door - an emulsion for walls, a tougher, eggshell paint for the walls woodwork. Above, the wallsre's a pale, airy blue, which makes the walls room feel light and spacious. A subtle leaf design has been stencilled on in green at random - an easy way to breath life into plain walls, with a pattern that's not as bold or rigidly repeated as wallpaper.
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