"Betsy" wrote in message
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| Hi all - I have a large planter built onto the house and about 5
feet off
| the ground. It gets a few hours of direct morning sunlight and then
several
| hours of bright indirect light. Any advice about cascading vining
plants I
| could put in it, something that would tolerate summer heat but not
need much
| direct light? the planter is no more than 18 inches deep so it
probably
| couldn't be a large woody vine, just something herbaceous.
|
| thanks! betsy
|
|

Old-fashioned trailing/climbing nasturtiums might be tried. You'd
probably need to send away for the seeds (Burpee usually has them).
Nasturtiums were never favorites here, but they've become valuable in
just the circumstances you describe. They made it through the entire
summer's heat in terra-cotta pots, and through the winter also, and
are now blooming like crazy again. They make better trailers than
climbers. There is a lavender lantana that trails. Some types of thyme
and oregano would be pretty in the circumstances you describe. They
really don't seem to care for summer sun all day long and have done
well trailing from pots.