Cheap Do It Yourself vertical gardens

How to make a living wall

These vertical gardens can be built and designed by you on a budget. These were found from http://www.lushe.com.au.

Bag and Plant

The first one is an easy-to-build vertical garden made out of a hessian bag.. or really almost any type of mesh bag.. stuffed with rockwool. Just cut some slits in the bag and the rockwool, stuff in your plants and water them. The rockwool holds the water and nutrients while retaining enough air pockets for the roots to grow and thrive.

The downside may be that you’d have to manually water it and you could only use it outside (no vapour barrier or water catch basin).. but the upside is that it’s super easy to make and very cheap. The rockwool is able to hold onto the water for a decent period of time as well.. so the watering wouldn’t be too much of a burden.

Bamboo Living Wall

Bamboo hung horizontally on a wall with holes cut out to allow a place to put the dirt and the plants. The trick with this one would be the watering – it’d be pretty tough to water without the dirt falling out the ends of the bamboo unless the ends were capped.

Cheap living wall

Mosaic Living Wall

Painted Terracotta pots hung on a wall. You could go restrained or all out with this idea. With that big one.. watering must be a nightmare.

Wall planters

mosaic wall garden

Shelf for Vertical Gardens

A shelf system that the plants simply sit on. The shelves are then covered by waterproof plywood (could use marine ply.. or perhaps plywood treated with linseed oil.) with sections cut out to give room for the plants. You could paint the plywood whatever colour you want and that’d also help with waterproofing if you use the right kind of paint. The plants used are bromeliads.

Vertical Garden shelves

What do you think? Would you use any of these vertical gardens yourself?