Hi. New to the forum. We've recently moved into a new build house with a garden. After both of us living in flats our entire lives, this is our first ever garden. We are based in Edinburgh in a Northish facing garden.

The space is app 18x14 metres but part of this is taken up by a garden room. There is an app 2m slope over the 14m from the house to fence line.

We have a landscaper in at the moment building a retaining wall for a patio that will come off the back of the house. The patio area is large. 6m wide. Worried we've made an error and it's too big but my other half assures me it's perfect.

The retaining wall will be app 1m high.

We want to grow evergreen vine over this wall to help it blend in and give the illusion of an extended green area. Does anyone have any suggestions on a vine that will keep its colour and foliage all year round, will be ok with a 1 metre high wall that stretches about 5 metres? Worried about root systems damaging the foundation over time as well as the wall. The wall will is shade a lot of the year.

The landscaper is putting in a garden bed on top of the retaining wall app 20cm inches in and 20cm wide which will sit just flush with the patio to aid in water run off and create a visible boarder to try & stop people falling or jumping off onto the lawn. He suggested planting crawling vines in here as well to grown down the wall. Any suggestions on what to use here? Low lying and shallow root systems.

I think I made an error and posted this a few days ago in the wrong section. I went to 'gardening' but replies were from America. My error. Specifically chose a .co.uk site to get uk advice. I read the uk site rules a few minutes ago and the FAQs link goes to a dead page, so I'm really sorry if a post on vines is available there. If so, happy for someone just to point me in that direction for self help.

Thanks.