Vertical Garden on Sunset Blvd
Feb 7th
Natural Mind is moving into the neighborhood and is installing a living wall on Sunset Blvd in Silver Lake. The process has been going on for many months to install the new salon, but it looks like the salon is going to be rewarded with a stunning store front.
Vertical garden starting sunset blvd
You can see the pockets of dirt that are holding the plants in the wall. This is a great way to save money if you have the patience. You can see the wall isn’t yet lush and full with plants. The plants were likely started with either seeds or small plugs and the little pockets of dirt stuck in the felt allow them to grow up just like that. You can read more about this vertical garden here.
Greenwall Sunset Blvd
Living Walls up Close
Living Walls Beginning
Different types of Vertical Gardens Analyzed
Feb 5th
Tokyo Green Space came out with an interesting chart comparing different types of vertical gardens to one another. It’s easy to see a bunch of different vertical gardens and get overwhelmed, but his chart does a good job of breaking the options and features down into three categories: Corporate, Small Business and Residential with different size systems for each.
Vertical Gardens
Outdoor vertical succulent garden
Feb 3rd
Succulent living wall
Joan and William Feldman had a backyard with a little pond in LA, California. However.. it didn’t have enough green for their tastes so they wanted to spice it up a bit. The didn’t have a lot of room.. land prices being what they are.. so they needed a solution to get some green on the bare walls to make them really pop.
Landscape designer Mia Lehrer and her associate, Holly Kuwayama, came up with a solution.. which was to hang a garden on the wall, that could thrive without much soil or water. Succulents were used as they need little water, so they’re light, and they have shallow roots, so not much soil is required.
Vines can take a while to fill up a space.. whereas vertical gardens can be installed relatively quickly. They also have the added advantage of being able to use a bunch of different colors from different plants in the design. They went various nurseries for the right plants to use in the living wall: echeverias and aeoniums, plump sedums and crassulas, senecios and kalanchoes… which all said and done.. provided a lot of interesting colors.
Succulents vertical garden
The designers came up with using a three-by-five-foot steel armature with two layers of metal mesh to create a wide, shallow box. The box was then stuffed with a blend of sphagnum moss and cactus mix to use in place of soil.. and was planted with hundreds of cuttings. About 45 days later, once the plants took root, the living wall was ready to mount, with eyebolts and heavy brackets.
For maintenance.. all that’s needed is a spray from the hose once a week.. fertilizer isn’t needed at all. The only issue they had was some of the aeoniums grew a bit too big to keep the uniform look of the wall planter.. so they have to be cut back every once and a while.
All in all.. it’s a great design that really makes a small outdoor space green up.
Herb and Urban Garden makes the Urb Garden
Feb 2nd
Herb Garden
This is the ultimate herb garden. It’s not yet in production, but was designed by Xavier Calluaud and shows lots of promise. It employs drip watering, worms and compost to provide fresh edible plants. The design is named “Urb Garden” and was designed in Australia. The Urb Garden is a vertical garden designed to encourage personal food production in small urban domestic environments.
The vertical garden is compact which is perfect for balconies, courtyards and community gardens.
It’s made from HDPE which is easily recycled and fully weather resistant. Food scraps are then placed into the worm farm which produces liquid fertilizer. Water is then added to the fertilizer and the liquid is pumped up to a holding tank. It then drips down through the growing pods and then drains back to the tank to be recycled through the system. The potting mix can be refreshed with castings from the worm farm before replanting.
Urban Garden
Urb Garden
Urb Garden
