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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Peter and Bob do a great job showing with pictures how to make a vertical garden. They built a living wall in Miami using felt and a metal frame to hold the vertical garden to the wall. Here are the pictures that help show what the construction process was like for Peter and Bob.
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January 7, 2010 - 10:46 am
Tags: vertical garden
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This living wall would be made using trumpet vines. I got these pictures from this blog. The Peter and Bob are the authors of the blog and do a great job showing with pictures how to make a vertical garden. They built a living wall in Miami and he’s very interested in the topic. He [...]
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What is a Woolly Pocket?
Woolly Pockets are flexible, breathable, and modular gardening containers. You can use Woolly Pockets both indoors and out; they have built-in moisture barriers to help protect furniture, and they’re equally at home outside in the elements. They’re perfect for creating urban gardens where you have space to garden but no land [...]
Two different styles of vertical gardens are discussed here. The first is using a panel to build an outdoor vertical garden, and the second is how to build your own vertical herb garden. A landscape designer from the UK (I believe) came up with this design.. it looks to be very practical and something that [...]
December 1, 2009 - 1:07 pm
Tags: Topiary, vertical garden
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These pictures are from the Olympic Topiary Gardens in China from a while back. 80 botanic gardens from more than 25 countries worked together to come up with these amazing designs. Topiary gardens and living walls are very similar. For topiaries, they typically involve a wire mesh that forms the shape of the garden. Sphagnum [...]
A vertical garden design company from Vancouver, B.C. – Green Over Grey – has some great looking living walls. They offer consultation, design, installation and maintenance to follow up. Here are a few samples from their photo gallery showing some of their vertical gardens:
More:Green Design’s Vertical Gardens
Aussie Vertical Gardens
Vertical gardens for business and fun
Different types [...]
Martha Stewart did a special on living walls as you can see below:
It looks like the wall panels from ELT Living walls were used to hold the plants. Those panels are about 20″ x 20″ x 2.5″ deep. The panels are at a 45 degree angle and the plants are planted right in the 2.5″ [...]
February 8, 2010 - 11:26 pm
I love seeing a project grow into itself.
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February 15, 2010 - 4:53 pm
Too bad whoever did this doesn’t know enough to plant sun plants in a location that faces due south. There is MOSS in the blaring sun! Also, heuchera, carex, vinca and other shade plants. Too bad — a wasted opportunity for what could have otherwise been amazing.