Green Wall Design
Mar 11th
Ng Sek San was the principle designer of Mao Marilyn and the Big Garden. With a post grad diploma in landscape architecture and a bachelor of civil engineering, Ng Sek San presented this design to the Singapore Garden Festival. Small living wall panels were used to hold individual plants. The plants are uniform in size, but very different in color which makes the design work. I am guessing that the panels are wire mesh stuffed with sphagnum moss to hold the plants. New Zealand is known for its sphagnum moss, and it’s right next door to Singapore.
Singapore Garden Living Wall
Singapore Garden Vertical Garden
Green Design’s Vertical Gardens
Mar 9th
Green Design in Sydney, Australia, defines a vertical garden as “a unique structure that holds indoor plants in a vertical and horizontal pattern in freestanding columns and walls.” They’ve taken that definition and built a freestanding wall of planters to create a vertical garden. Their type of greenwall can be used as a unique room divider since it is freestanding. They use recyclable plastic pots and the garden is resistant to mold. They also mention the living wall would be a form of advertising for your business since everyone would be talking about it… something I hadn’t thought of.
They state that each pot can hold enough water to keep plants hydrated.. but you have to wonder how frequently they have to be watered and the work involved. If you’ve got a high green wall, you’re on a ladder each time you need to water unless you install an irrigation system. With this system, it doesn’t hide the irrigation pipes quite as nicely as a Patrick Blanc style living wall or a Woolly Pocket vertical garden… the pipes would be right out there in the open which would definitely impact the look. If you’re willing to go to the trouble of hand watering each planter, though, there’s no denying their wall looks good.
However, the company also partnered with the Green Wall Company which makes solid green walls instead of a wall of planters. That technique allows for a bigger wall with less of a watering headache. You can see in the photo below that there’s a metal resevoir holding the water which will be pumped to the top of the mini vertical garden automatically through a timer. You can’t see the irrigation pipes either.
Small Green Wall
Large green wall
Vertical garden cafe
Window sill vertical garden
Lincoln Center Atrium’s Living Wall
Mar 7th
I love the closeup of the wall below. It clearly shows each plant growing out of a little felt pocket. Some walls use perlite, others dirt, and others just let the plant’s bare roots sit in the pocket. There’s typically two layers of felt at a minimum. The front blanket of felt has the rips and the back felt blanket is one solid piece of synthetic felt. The 20 ft high wall of plants was designed by Tod Williams Bille Tsien Architects.
You can see the green wall was planted using a style similar to Patrick Blanc’s. Plants were grouped together in long, artsy lines at a gentle angle. Although this wall only used green plants, the different shades and textures on the wall make it very eye-catching. From curbed
Movable Green Wall
Mar 5th
This is a green wall design that can be moved from one area of your house to another. This would help if you wanted your wall to get more light or if you wanted to move it inside for the winter. You could also move the walls to change the look and feel of your yard.. much like changing your furniture around. It’s an interesting design by Maximize Design and for the movable wall, it costs 390 pounds not planted.
Movable green wall
Movable living wall
Movable vertical garden
