How to quickly create a privacy screen with annual climbing plants? They are sown in the spring in the ground, develop in summer then die in autumn.
How to set up a hedge in your gravel yard?
In a yard stabilized with pebbles, the establishment of a hedge requires digging a deep trench. On the other hand, without damaging the ground, it is possible to create a barrier between the two spaces by unrolling a wire mesh maintained by posts.
What soil does it take to make a seedbed?
To sow a hedge, the earth must be composed of topsoil mixed with compost to a thickness of 20 cm. This will make it possible to cultivate ipomeas, nasturtiums, and sweet peas during one season, which are sown in pockets of 3 to 5 seeds from April.
Flowered wire mesh: sow large-flowered ipomeas, volubilis
The large, funnel-shaped, very bright flowers of the ipomea volubilis open in the morning and close in the afternoon. They can remain closed during the day in cloudy weather or when the nights are longer than the days (autumn equinox).
Ipomes have very many thin, twining stems covered with heart-shaped, light green satin leaves. Its large, pure blue flowers are funnel-shaped.
The many varieties display various colors: sky blue variegated with white, dark red …
Flowered wire mesh: sow sweet peas
Annual or perennial, the sweet pea presents twining lianas which are covered with butterfly-flowers in tender colors and some of which have an enchanting scent.
The sweet peas can climb to over 2 meters. In this category, there is a perennial sweet pea ( Lathyrus latifolius ) which grows again every year in the same place. It blooms from May until July. Its carmine-pink flowers are not fragrant.
The annual sweet pea ( Lathyrus odoratus ), has fragrant flowers which bloom from May until September, its flowering is longer. It displays various shades of mauve, purple pink, red, purple, blue …
Flowered wire mesh: sow climbing nasturtium
At the foot of a fence, prefer climbing nasturtiums ( Tropacolum majus ). Whether dwarf or climbing, nasturtiums always have the same types of flowers with 5 rounded yellow, orange or red petals. Nasturtiums are also used as ground cover.
How to sow ipomeas under shelter?
Ipomes, sweet peas and nasturtiums are grown directly in the ground but if you want to obtain an early flowering, the seeds must be sown under a shelter from March by placing as for the pockets, 3 seeds per pot.
Then the young shoots are planted at the foot of the fence after any risk of frost.
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