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Our garage takes up a large part of our back garden, with the rear
wall facing the house. I'd like to grow something that will cover that
rear wall and, ideally, spread around the corner and down the long
wall as well, covering up as much of the brickwork as possible.

A lot would depend on which direction each of your walls faces. The
advantage of ivy is that it's evergreen and there are lots of different
sized leaves, types of variegations and degrees of vigour.

I'd be thinking in terms of a mixture of things: some evergreen and
definitely including some clematis. But some further info about
direction and conditions would help.

Definitely. Direction, root run, soil, height and width of garage
and whether you are happy to attach wall-eyes and wire. And how cold
it gets in winter!

There are dozens of excellent flowering climbers for any situation
which has at least good light, but most are twiners and tendril
climbers. Only a few self-attachers flower well in the UK.


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