Vertical gardens

Steve Foster with Foster Plants in Miami installed this great-looking living wall in a retail store using Woolly Pockets. The Wall is 7′ wide and 10′ high and was built using Wally Three’s. The small square at bottom right of the first picture is the water source. This is where the drip irrigation will be hooked up to water the living wall at each service visit. Foster Plants chose not to use a timer to minimize the risk of a malfunction.

Woolly Pocket Install

Measuring

The next step was setting up our vertical guide line along the left margin of the wall and beginning the installation of the Wally Three’s.

Leveling the planter

Wally Three's

Irrigation drippers

Foster Plants had originally planned on using a half inch vertical line up the right side, with quarter inch horizontal lines, but Rich decided to use all quarter inch to minimize the chances of any leaks. Each pocket will have one half-gallon per hour drip emitter.

Top down planting

After adding a layer of the planting medium to the pockets, they began planting into the Wally’s. The irrigation drip-heads are adjusted and buried into each pocket as they plant. Planting from top to bottom prevents dirt from falling on the plants just planted.

Finished wall

You can reach Steve Foster a call at 305.962.0990 or toll free at 1.877.647.1782. If you’re interested in interior plantscaping / living wall discussion, here’s his forum if you’d like to take part.