---
title: "Climbing Plants (246)"
created: 2026-07-01
updated: 2026-07-01
type: concept
status: compiled
namespace: pattern-language
pattern_number: 246
pattern_name: "Climbing Plants"
source_repository: https://github.com/zenodotus280/apl-md
source_url: https://github.com/zenodotus280/apl-md/blob/master/Patterns/Climbing%20Plants%20%28246%29.md
license_note: Non-commercial reuse with attribution; see namespace README and source LICENSE.md.
related_patterns:
  - "Trellised Walk (174)"
  - "Filtered Light (238)"
---

# Climbing Plants (246)

> Source pattern from the abridged `apl-md` corpus. Use as a design reference and constraint seed; do not treat as commercial-clean training data.

### 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.

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

### Related Patterns
... two earlier patterns can be helped by climbing plants around the building: [[Trellised Walk (174)]] and [[Filtered Light (238)]].

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> [!cite]- Alexander, Christopher. _A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction_. Oxford University Press, 1977, p. 1135.
> #APL/confidence/low
>
> #APL/Construction-Patterns/Outdoor-Details