A carport can be planted in different ways: whether on the roof, pillars or side walls, green plants on or on the carport not only look beautiful, but also provide more shade, cleaner air and moisture. Find out ideas on how you can plant your carport below.
How to plant a carport?
To plant a carport, you can attach climbing plants to the pillars, create green walls with ropes or wire mesh or add greenery to the roof. To do this, choose winter-hardy, twining plants without adhesive roots and check the statics for a green roof.
Planting the pillars of the carport
If you want to add some greenery to your carport, it is probably enough to put climbing plants on the four pillars. To protect the wood of your carport, you should not choose self-climbing plants with adhesive roots. Although these save work because they do not require climbing assistance, the stubborn roots damage the paint and wood of the carport. So it's better to choose a climbing climbing plant without adhesive roots or twining or twining climbing plants that pull themselves up but do not damage the carport.
Green walls for the carport
If you not only want to green the pillars of your carport, but also want to grow large plants, you can stretch ropes vertically and horizontally between your pillars or attach wire mesh (€208.00 at Amazon) and grow beautiful climbing plants on them.
The most beautiful climbing plants for the carport
If you don't want to put new plants on the carport every year, you should choose winter-hardy climbing plants. These include:
| Name | Wintergreen | Special features |
|---|---|---|
| Wisteria | Not wintergreen | Grape-like, blue-purple flowers |
| Clematis (Clematis) | There are wintergreen varieties | Dreamlike flowers |
| Ivy | Evergreen | Poisonous, adhesive roots! |
| Firethorn | Mostly wintergreen | Fire Red Berries |
| Bell Vine | Not wintergreen | Beautiful, large flowers |
| Climbing hydrangea | There are few wintergreen varieties | Flowers profusely and mostly white |
| climbing rose | Semi-wintergreen (short leafless period) | Romantically beautiful flowers in many different colors |
| Climbing Spindle | Mostly wintergreen | There are varieties with patterned foliage |
| Mandevilla (Dipladenia) | Not wintergreen | Brightly colored flowers |
| Star Jasmine | There are evergreen varieties | Smells similar to real jasmine |
| Wild Wine | Not wintergreen | Impressive autumn colors |
| Fence winch | Not wintergreen | Beautiful white flowers |
Planting the carport roof
Another way to plant a carport is with a green roof. Since a carport almost always has a flat roof, green roofing is usually possible inexpensively. However, you should make sure that the statics of the carport allow for greenery, because even the narrowest green roof weighs 10 to 13 kg per square meter when wet. Therefore, only an extensive layer, i.e. a 10 to 20cm thick layer, is usually possible for the carport. Grasses, mosses and various types of sedum can be planted on it.
