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 [...]
Here’s a green idea for an office divider. It’s a living wall that’s moveable so you can slide it wherever you want in an office. This is a great youtube video with the interviewer getting solid information about how to build a living wall. You can make the vertical garden different colours depending on what [...]
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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 [...]
December 24, 2009 - 1:32 pm
Tags: diy, green wall
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Nori from Nori’s Stuff has a green wall going that she built herself. She used heavily oiled and waxed plywood as the backerboard and used a piece of PVC pipe to catch the water to pour it into a bucket. Then a pump pumps the water from the bucket back up to the top through [...]
December 11, 2009 - 11:02 am
Tags: green wall, living wall, Topiary
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Topiade is a lay-over facade structure that’s part topiary design, part living wall design. The goal was to renew an existing Louis Vuitton building without a huge construction undertaking. The end result is a great-looking design that is able to be changed frequently. Here’s a couple different pictures of the same building with different topiary/living wall looks:
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December 9, 2009 - 12:41 pm
Tags: green wall, living wall, moss
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At the 2008 Chelsea Flower Show, designer Kazuyuki Ishihara created Midori no Tobira which mean Green Door. That was the third year in a row he won the gold medal for his designs. He made this with rooftop gardens in mind. He wanted it to be like a ’secret garden’ so when people stepped out [...]
December 7, 2009 - 9:27 am
Tags: green wall, living wall
Posted in Living Walls | 2 comments
I just heard about the possibility of bioluminescent trees. At first I thought it was a hoax… but apparently there’s something to it. The idea is to make trees glow like fireflies and other insects that glow or light-up naturally. One is the female of Lampyris noctiluca, the common glowworm and the other is the [...]
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:
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