Moving plants from flint wall...
 

Hi there,

I am a complete novice, but very keen.
We are buying a flat with a walled coutyard. We currently rent a beautiful old cottage with a large cottage style garden, its going to be quite a change!
Anyway, our current garden is surrounded by an ancient flint wall, out of which there is a beautiful delicate plant growing in places (its a hanging, climbing type thing). It has tiny little purple flowers that if looked at very closely look a bit like a snap dragon flower.
I desperately want to take a piece of it with me and try and grow it on the walls in our new coutyard garden. But i have no idea how! Does anyone have any ideas?

I love walls with plants growing out of them, i see lots of it on holiday in devon, and i really want to recreate this in my little yard in worthing.

I'd be really grateful of any ideas on how to do this?

Megan

Moving plants from flint wall...
 

meg27 wrote:
Hi there,

I am a complete novice, but very keen.
We are buying a flat with a walled coutyard. We currently rent a
beautiful old cottage with a large cottage style garden, its going to
be quite a change!
Anyway, our current garden is surrounded by an ancient flint wall, out
of which there is a beautiful delicate plant growing in places (its a
hanging, climbing type thing). It has tiny little purple flowers that
if looked at very closely look a bit like a snap dragon flower.
I desperately want to take a piece of it with me and try and grow it on
the walls in our new coutyard garden. But i have no idea how! Does
anyone have any ideas?

You could try winkling some out with a knife, making sure there's a bit
of root attached. Then put it into a pot of compost and let it develop
a bit more root. The problem with that might be getting the whole
thing, intact, into your wall. Or you could find a wildflower site
that sells seeds, like this one. Put the seeds into a little ball of
compost and pack them into the gaps in your new walls.

snip
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon

Moving plants from flint wall...
 

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meg27 wrote:
Hi there,

I am a complete novice, but very keen.
We are buying a flat with a walled coutyard. We currently rent a
beautiful old cottage with a large cottage style garden, its going to
be quite a change!
Anyway, our current garden is surrounded by an ancient flint wall, out
of which there is a beautiful delicate plant growing in places (its a
hanging, climbing type thing). It has tiny little purple flowers that
if looked at very closely look a bit like a snap dragon flower.
I desperately want to take a piece of it with me and try and grow it on
the walls in our new coutyard garden. But i have no idea how! Does
anyone have any ideas?

You could try winkling some out with a knife, making sure there's a bit
of root attached. Then put it into a pot of compost and let it develop
a bit more root. The problem with that might be getting the whole
thing, intact, into your wall. Or you could find a wildflower site
that sells seeds, like this one. Put the seeds into a little ball of
compost and pack them into the gaps in your new walls.

snip

Seeds for cymbalaria muralis are advertised on

http://www.nickys-nursery.co.uk/seeds/pages/vines.htm

so if the transplanting from 'home' fails, all is not necessarily lost.

Moving plants from flint wall...
 

"Sacha" wrote in message
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meg27 wrote:
Hi there,

I am a complete novice, but very keen.
We are buying a flat with a walled coutyard. We currently rent a
beautiful old cottage with a large cottage style garden, its going to
be quite a change!
Anyway, our current garden is surrounded by an ancient flint wall, out
of which there is a beautiful delicate plant growing in places (its a
hanging, climbing type thing). It has tiny little purple flowers that
if looked at very closely look a bit like a snap dragon flower.
I desperately want to take a piece of it with me and try and grow it on
the walls in our new coutyard garden. But i have no idea how! Does
anyone have any ideas?

You could try winkling some out with a knife, making sure there's a bit
of root attached. Then put it into a pot of compost and let it develop
a bit more root. The problem with that might be getting the whole
thing, intact, into your wall. Or you could find a wildflower site
that sells seeds, like this one. Put the seeds into a little ball of
compost and pack them into the gaps in your new walls.

snip
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon

Its called Ivy leafed Toad flax and as its almost impossible to get rid of I
don't
expect you will have any problems transferring some :~)

--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)