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246. Climbing Plants image

Climbing Plants

. . . two earlier patterns can be helped by climbing plants around the building: Trellised Walk and Filtered Light.

Problem:

A building finally becomes a part of its surroundings when the plants grow over parts of it as freely as they grow along the ground.

Background & Research: Not Included on the site—Go read the book!

Solution:

On sunny walls, train climbing plants to grow up round the openings in the wall—the windows, doors, porches, arcades, and trellises.

246. Climbing Plants diagram

pg. 1135

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