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Eco Walls, based in Bordentown, NJ, is expanding the green footprint in urban environments. Where new construction in urban environments often means losing greenspace, Eco Walls reverses that trend using living walls. They grow their plants right in their greenhouse in a proprietary blend of soilless medium design to wick and lock in moisture while providing optimum levels of oxygen, and beneficial microbes ...

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Living Sculptures

Mar 30th

Posted by Gavin in Misc

These are fascinating sculptures done by Robert Cannon. He’s got a B.A. with distinction in Architecture, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. He calls the work Terraform Sculpture and uses concrete and mosses with most of his creations. He’s done a life size chess set out of concrete and moss as well as other amazing sculptures you can see on his site.

Moss concrete gauntlet

Concrete moss bust

Venus Living Sculpture

Apollo Living Sculpture 5 ft tall!

Concrete and moss art designs

Potential scaled up version of previous image

Vertical moss and concrete sculpture

You can see more at a great landscape design blog - Studio G.

Solar Tubes for Lighting your Gardens

Mar 28th

Posted by Gavin in Living Walls

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This has got to be one of the best solutions for lighting vertical gardens indoors. I’d heard of solar tubes before.. but hadn’t really put it together with growing green walls in your home. We all know that sunlight is by far the best lighting you can give your plants. Sometimes it’s hard to balance the benefits of an indoor living wall and the added expense a complex lighting system might bring if it doesn’t have sufficient natural lighting for the chosen plants via decent windows.

But here’s the thing. With these SolaTubes, you can get all the natural lighting you need to have perfectly content plants in your vertical garden.. even ones that may have higher light requirements such as herbs or other edibles. You don’t have to worry about any added electrical expenses or getting expensive grow lights and systems… not to mention using extra energy… These systems will work for you any time the sun is shining which is all the plants are hoping for anyway.

The video below mentions the surface they use in the tubes is 99.something% reflective compared to mirrors which are 70-80%. That means you’re getting sunlight that nearly mimics what plants would be getting outdoors. It’s an incredible solution for installing living walls indoors. The company mentions they’ve installed them in residential and commercial locations. Here’s SolaTube’s site