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We have a fairly large garden, but the view from the living-room window
is dominated by the (North-facing) side wall of the garage, and it used
to have large boring deciduous bushes in front of it.
The wall is shiplap, painted cream, and we mounted two trellises on it,
planning to plant climbers or wall shrubs. But now the decision: what to
plant? It needs to look interesting for as much of the year as possible,
as this is what we see from almost all windows, it needs to thrive on a
North wall, in fairly acid and often waterlogged soil, and it shouldn't
be too dark....
The variegated ivies come to mind - but the English are too vigorous and
could destroy the wall, and the colchicas always look sad and drooping
to me; we had just about decided on pyracantha, but it has very dark
green leaves....

I would be very grateful for any suggestions!

Hum - Unless your shiplap is plastic you may want to paint/treat it one day.

I'd think about hanging a net up a short distance from the garage and
growing a climber up that. Then you can move it away from the wall when
you need to.

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