Aussie Vertical Gardens
Indoor wall art
In Australia they have quite a few different design ideas. Fytowall has a modular system in place in Australia that allows you to have some pretty amazing looking wall gardens both indoors and out.
Using bushier plants really help cover the wall so all you see is a field of green. Mixing up the different greens can have a stunning effect. You can even stick them outdoors on a deck
Wall of Green
Outdoor green wall
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Sustainable Vertical Garden Design
March 3, 2010 - 3:55 pm
Tags: living fence, outdoor greenwall, trellis, wall planter
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Here’s an interesting set of vertical garden designs from Sustainable Garden Design in Perth, Australia. As you can see right away, there’s an interesting choice of plants for the vertical garden due to the climate and the designs are really unique. Using a combination of rocks and interesting building materials, these living walls really stand [...]
Pleaching and Espalier
March 1, 2010 - 11:30 pm
Tags: espalier, living fence, pleaching, Topiary, vertical garden
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Pleaching and espalier are two techniques used to create interesting living walls. Pleaching involves weaving the branches of closely grouped trees together. The result is a living wall created over many years. Farmers use this technique with fruit trees as well as with hedges to make them more secure. Note the size of the living [...]
Landscape Architect Elif Bonelli’s Vertical Garden
February 21, 2010 - 3:44 pm
Tags: green wall, living wall, outdoor greenwall
Posted in Making living wall art | 1 comment
Istanbul is a crowded city in Turkey that doesn’t have a lot of green space. There’s not a lot of room for landscape architects to build anything green in the downtown core. Due to the crowded space, room to garden horizontally is hard to find which means the gardens you do see are often pricey.
Landscape architecture company [...]
Biowall – Morristown Building Goes Green
February 17, 2010 - 1:47 am
Tags: clean air, vertical garden
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The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation installed a biowall in their New Jersey building. The bio-wall is a 3 story (38 ft tall by 14 ft wide) vertical garden that uses a water and air permeable growing media. That allows the air to blow right by the roots which take the VOC’s right out of the [...]
Massive Vertical Garden in Portland, Oregon
February 11, 2010 - 9:56 am
Tags: green design, outdoor greenwall
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Wyatt Federal Building is planning to build a row of 250 ft. trellises along the west side of its building. SERA Architects is in charge of the remodel of the entire building and has a $135 million budget from the Federal stimulus fund. It’s a unique vertical garden that’s build on a series of 7 [...]
Natural air cleaning
February 9, 2010 - 3:12 pm
Tags: building, clean air, green design
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Nedlaw Living Walls make living walls with a purpose – to clean out indoor air pollutants and allergens. It’s a different focus than standard living walls/vertical gardens. Given the correct installation of the living walls, they can actually replace traditional air filters in your home.
The leaves of the plants change the carbon dioxide into oxygen, [...]
Vertical Garden on Sunset Blvd
February 7, 2010 - 9:37 am
Tags: vertical garden
Posted in Living Walls | 2 comments
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.
You can see the pockets of dirt [...]
Different types of Vertical Gardens Analyzed
February 5, 2010 - 9:30 am
Tags: other designs, vertical garden
Posted in Making living wall art | 1 comment
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 [...]
Outdoor vertical succulent garden
February 3, 2010 - 4:08 pm
Tags: diy, green design, green wall
Posted in Vertical gardens | 13 comments
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 [...]
Grass Mirror
January 23, 2010 - 4:04 pm
Tags: green design, wall art, wall planter
Posted in Vertical gardens | 3 comments
Grass Mirror is a very innovative project from H2O Architects. Adding this green look in your living area would be a nice choice to create natural ambience inside the house.. plus it’s a real eye-catcher. The planter is a rectangular prism cut on an angle to make room for plants. The mirrors can be moved around to make [...]
December 4, 2009 - 4:02 am
There is obviously a lot to know about this. I think you made some good points in Features also.