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Article: Vertical gardens: how to decorate and disguise backyard walls.
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- Sunset
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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If your garden has a boring wall, think of it as an opportunity to extend your outdoor space. Enhanced with vines, colorful plants, and decorative objects, that daunting expanse becomes an interesting vertical garden.
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Jerry and Geri Thirloway planted creeping fig (Ficus pumila) against the sump-stone wall of their garden in Solana Beach, California (pictured above). Ornamental pear trees grow in front, their evenly spaced trunks punctuating the leafy expanse. In keeping with the English-inspired flower garden, the Thirloways hung flat-backed planters on the wall, using heavy-duty masonry screws, then filled them with tuberous ...