Wonder walls

ONE of the easiest ways to increase the growing capacity of your garden is by making use of house walls. By doing this, you not only add what practically amounts to another dimension to the garden, but you will also provide yourself with the opportunity of enjoying the beauty of many tender and exotic plants that would not normally thrive in the open garden.

Even a seemingly inhospitable north wall can make a useful contribution. Shade-loving climbers like ivies, climbing hydrangeas and winter jasmine, together with camellias – the loveliest of spring-flowering shrubs – will all be very much at home in this situation.

Although camellias are completely hardy even in