Green Design in Sydney, Australia, defines a vertical garden as “a unique structure that holds indoor plants in a vertical and horizontal pattern in freestanding columns and walls.” They’ve taken that definition and built a freestanding wall of planters to create a vertical garden. Their type of greenwall can be used as a unique room [...]
March 5, 2010 - 9:12 pm
Tags: green wall
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This is a green wall design that can be moved from one area of your house to another. This would help if you wanted your wall to get more light or if you wanted to move it inside for the winter. You could also move the walls to change the look and feel of your [...]
February 25, 2010 - 7:33 pm
Tags: building, clean air, green wall
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A 24-square meter plant wall – more specifically a “biowall” – was built in the Robertson Building. The biowall was planted with a variety of exotic and native indoor flowering plants. Each plant has its own pocket in a special planting material (they don’t tell you the exact fabric they use). Water filters through the material [...]
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 [...]
February 19, 2010 - 1:31 am
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Here’s a vertical garden design from Germany. You can see that there are five planters in each module. Their website indicates you can keep the planters straight or angle them depending on what you want to grow. The PLANT-ED WALL ™ is 228.5 cm tall and 112 cm long.
My first thought upon seeing this design [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
January 15, 2010 - 4:43 pm
Tags: diy, green wall, sphagnum moss
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Using sphagnum moss as a growing medium is another great way to build a vertical garden. It appears to be used in some spots in Europe but could be used anywhere. Basically you take some wire.. about 10 gauge.. and form it into a 3D box. You can make the box any size you see [...]
January 14, 2010 - 8:01 am
Nice blog with a nice tile “Office Divider Greenery” and a nice video made the blog worth of time going through it. Keep up the good work.