Flowers that grow in walls!?

[Polycarbclare]

I'm looking for some plants that will flower between crevices in a wall I have any suggestions please and when to plant them. I would like a spring/ summer flowering plant.

Thanks.


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[Bill HH]

Here in Torquay we have more stone walls than people, many of them are covered in campanula, long chains of blue bell like flowers that seeming grow in any tiny crevice. It flowers right through (I still have some in flower now) and looks after itself. bees love it to.

Campanula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If you pull off the old flowers and seed heads it makes even more.

[veggiechicken]

Agree with Bill on Campanula ^^^^, Snow in summer RHS Plant Selector Cerastium tomentosum / RHS Gardening
Aubretia and more ideas here 10 AGM trailing plants / RHS Gardening

[WPG]

Polycarbclare, this year I grew some erigeron from seed, and it's great for putting in cracks and crevices. The seedlings were microscopically small at the start and I thought they'd come to nothing, but actually they've turned into very robust plants. They've been flowering since June, and still going strong. To grow them in small crevices, the seed can be mixed with some wet soil and put straight into the crack. See here for more details
RHS Plant Selector Erigeron karvinskianus AGM / RHS Gardening

[andy_j]

Erigeron 'profusion' Also, Lewesia will grow in walls.

[Polycarbclare]

Thanks for the advice all. I'm
Off To the garden centre tomorrow to see If I can get these in ready for next year. 😄


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[Thelma Sanders]

Erigeron Profusion here as well - so that makes 3 of us

I also have kenilworth ivy, which seeded itself
Flower Gardening Tips : How to Grow Kenilworth Ivy (Cymbalaria Muralis) - YouTube

[Polycarbclare]

Went to my local nursery today who undercut the well know garden centres and picked up some Aubretia really cheaply. So I'm really pleased with my purchase. Thanks for all your advise.


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[Thelma Sanders]

Wot no erigeron?