Different types of Vertical Gardens Analyzed
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 size systems for each.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Indoor Moss Wall
February 15, 2010 - 4:23 pm
Tags: moss, other designs
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Here’s a unique look to interior design – a type of 3D green wall paper. It’s dried moss carefully glued into a pattern on an interior wall that makes a unique looking design. The design was originally done by a Tokyo-based design firm – Nendo. I’d imagine this would be actually fairly easy to try.. [...]
Vertical Garden on Sunset Blvd
February 7, 2010 - 9:37 am
Tags: vertical garden
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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 [...]
Close-up of Goodwill’s living wall
January 17, 2010 - 11:25 am
Tags: green wall, other designs, outdoor greenwall, wall art
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A vertical garden in a Tacoma Goodwill (just outside of Seattle) has about 100 different plant varieties installed. The wall was built in Patrick Blanc’s style and has layers of felt stapled together which hold pockets of dirt for the plants to grow in. It’s watered hydroponically. The wall is 20 by 40 feet.. so [...]
Riverwall Vertical Garden
January 9, 2010 - 1:20 pm
Tags: green design, indoor plants, vertical garden
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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.
More:Hotspotting’s close-up [...]
Trumpet Vines for a Stunning Living Wall
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 [...]
Vertical Garden Video
January 5, 2010 - 12:42 pm
Tags: other designs
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Here’s a time lapse of a large vertical garden being built. It shows all the work that goes into a vertical garden to get it up and running… and there’s a lot of it! The end result, though, is fantastic.
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Cheap Do It Yourself vertical gardens
January 3, 2010 - 12:14 pm
Tags: diy, green design, living wall, other designs
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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 [...]
Woolly Pockets Living Wall
December 31, 2009 - 8:51 pm
Tags: green design, green wall, living wall, products, vertical garden, wall art
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Overview
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 [...]
February 11, 2010 - 7:31 pm
I lived in Japan and saw many stunning gardens but was always intrigued with the vertical gardens. Japanese people love their gardens and having nature around their home but there is such limited space. However the vertical gardens are a great solution for anyone with the same problem
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