Can you plant a climbing plant in a window box?
Question:i want to plant a fast growing plant like climing ivy
so that it covers garden wall i want to start it in a 50cm long
by 15cm wide pot that will be screwd onto the wall about 4 foot
up from the ground.
will the roots find thair way down to the ground or will
it die ?
Answers:
should be fine, but keep well watered and fed spring and autum. ivy likes to grow in the shade.
Yes but it would trail and not climb.
if you plant in potting soil and keep it fed and watered, the plant will grow. The roots will likely not go to the ground.
Yes a clematis montanna will look a lot better than ivy but if u do want ivy go for russian ivy it turns a deep red from the green once a year, stunning !
Yes you can grow it in a container, you just need to make sure it has adequate support so that it climbs rather than trails (e.g. provide some trellis or attach the shoots to the wall somehow). it will not get as big or be as vigorous as a plant which is grown in the ground, but providing you feed it it should do very well. the roots will not ever find their way down to the ground but that shouldn't matter really.
i would suggest plants like Chilean potato tree (Solanum crispum) or Virginia creeper as alternatives to Ivy: they look MUCH nicer!
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