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Indoor Moss Wall
Feb 15th
Green moss wall
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.. just need some dried moss, a stencil and some glue and you’re away to the races. Since the moss is dry.. you don’t have to worry about watering and that. It’s not going to be active. It’d be for the purely asthetic effect.
Moss wallpaper 3d
Moss indoor designs
Moss Greenwall
Different types of Vertical Gardens Analyzed
Feb 5th
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.
Vertical Gardens
Close-up of Goodwill’s living wall
Jan 17th
Goodwill vertical garden
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 a total size of 800 square feet. Blanc even came to visit to supervise the installation of the living wall.
Blanc built his first vertical garden (mur vegetal in French) 30 years ago. He was inspired by seeing plants growing on rocks straight up a cliff using little or no soil.
Ferns, shrubs, liriope and Japenese forest grass are included in the living wall. Theres’ 96 plants total. The epimedium isn’t doing great, but the yews, andromeda and iris are doing well. Even the woody plants are doing well.
Goodwill Living Wall Close Up
A metal frame attached to the building with PVC piping on top of that. Then two layers of felt are attached over the piping and metal backing. Slits are cut into the felt to make little planting pockets. Some of the soil was knocked off the plant roots, then the plants were placed in the felt.
The 20′ by 40′ foot wall has two horizantal bands of drip irrigation (one every 10′ of vertical garden). So the water and nutrients are fed hydroponically. In the winter the system is turned off to prevent the wall from freezing.
Vertical Garden Video
Jan 5th
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.
