I'm intending on building a variation of this but wondered about incorporating some trailing plants from plant pots within the gabion, do you think that's doable? Or would maintaining them be too much?
Hey I’ve done a couple of planted gabions and you need to also include pockets of substrate in the fillings, make a pocket with whatever you’re using as the fill and add some gritty compost or sand in there. Best things to use are alpines and drought tolerant med style plants – aubracia, campanula, erigirons, thyme sp, achillea, seline, armeria. Dont plant big plants start with plug plants if you can and water them well until they establish.
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I’d consider sedums and other hardy UK succulents – evergreen, leaves turn interesting colours in the cold/sun, and they have very impressive flowers that bees love! Plus they trail beautifully
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Hey I’ve done a couple of planted gabions and you need to also include pockets of substrate in the fillings, make a pocket with whatever you’re using as the fill and add some gritty compost or sand in there. Best things to use are alpines and drought tolerant med style plants – aubracia, campanula, erigirons, thyme sp, achillea, seline, armeria. Dont plant big plants start with plug plants if you can and water them well until they establish.
I’d consider sedums and other hardy UK succulents – evergreen, leaves turn interesting colours in the cold/sun, and they have very impressive flowers that bees love! Plus they trail beautifully