Climbing plants are always an attraction for facades, even for walls. The problem is that you often don’t know how to hold climbing plants to the wall. Do you have this doubt?
Next, we are going to give you some options that you can use to fix them. And there are many ways to do it, and it will depend on your budget, or your ability to do it one way or another. Go for it?
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How Climbing Plants Are Cared For
As you know, and if we haven’t told you already, climbing plants have several options for holding on. There are some that create aerial roots that serve as fixation, such as poto or ivy. These are attached to the surface and attempt to provide support for the plant to continue to rise.
Others, however, develop very fine tendrils or filaments that wrap around each other, which serves to attach it to the surface. They do this in a very discreet way, and you realize this when you see that they have rolled up on the surface, either on a fence or on a stick, etc. In this way, they are held not only as a support, but as something fixed that helps them to continue climbing on their branches.
Finally, another of the systems used by plants are the stems themselves. Some plants, like honeysuckle, use them to grow vertically.
All this must be taken into account when looking for how to attach climbing plants to the wall as this will help you give the best solution to your plant.
How to attach climbing plants to the wall: different ways to achieve it
As there are many types of climbing plants, and many walls (an interior wall is not the same thing as a facade), we are going to give you some ideas which can prove useful for fixing them.
Place a trellis or support
One of the first solutions you have is to place a trellis or support over the plant to help it attach to the wall. Indeed, it consists in fixing beforehand, by screws or by gluing, a trellis, trellis, support… through which the plant can climb.
At first, it will not look pretty, especially if the plant is small, but over time, it will be hidden and there will be no trace, thus avoiding the decorative problem.
If the plant is small, you need to place the fence at the base of the pot or the ground so that the branches begin to cross it.. And, as it grows, you can add more trellises so that in a few years you have it all covered.
This method can be ideal for facades, especially since the vine plants are generally placed on these which will last over time (which will not be cut or lost and therefore it does not matter if these supports are placed because they will be hidden).
through brackets
Another option for attaching climbing plants to the wall is to use hooks, nails, rings… The objective is that these serve as support and subjection of the branches of the plant so that it continues to climb higher.
In this case you will have to buy several to pass the branches through these anchors and fix them (this can be with wire or similar) to prevent them from falling or the branches from coming loose from the anchors.
Now well, this method is more unstable, because you don’t really give any support to the roots or the tendrils (although in this case it is possible that they wrap themselves around these hooks).
This can be used both for the facade and for the interior of houses.
wire mesh
We continue with other ways to attach climbing plants to the wall. And in this case, similar to the first one we gave you, would be the wire mesh. It is ideal for plants that have tendrils, as it will allow them to easily climb through the holes that the wire must have and, over time, it will hide.
retainer clips
For interior walls, such as bedrooms, hallways, living rooms… you can choose to use fixing clips. These can be found in stores and they are very varied. Most consist of a clip that sticks to the wall. Algunos pueden ser abiertos, y solo tendrías que coger la rama, pasarla por el gancho que tiene y cerrarlo para que no se escape, o cerrados (donde el clip se abre para pasar la rama y esto se usa de soporte para pegarlo en la pared where you want.
This solution offers you many advantagesjust like being able to take the branches wherever you want, while decorating with them (because you can choose clips in the same color as the plant or with patterns related to plants).
with a hanger
Although this method will not work for all climbing plants, it can be interesting for those that are just starting out or for those that are small at first and that you have indoors.
It consists of taking a coat hanger, which is made of nothing but wire, and shaping it into a triangle. The hook of the hanger must go down and try to put it straight, because it will be what will be stuck in the ground (if you put it from below) or what will be hung on the wall.
This way you can ensure that the plant gets the support it needs to be attached to the wall.
By “stickers”
Stickers or sticky paste. These are two options where you wouldn’t have to drill any holes in the wall and it allows you to “glue” the plant branches to keep them going. Of course, it’s not for the outdoors as sun and humidity can cause it to loosen over time and the whole plant could then fall off.
As you can see, there are many ways to attach climbing plants to the wall. Can you tell us yours?