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Home Made Vertical Gardens
May 15th
Lisa Wheeler has a fantastic blog about living walls. She is constantly creating DIY vertical gardens from seemlingly random material that she miraculously turns into works of art! For example:
I found this flowery thingie for cheap, made a mound of soil held in place by mesh, and turned it into this:
She’s made living walls from all sorts of trays. She fills them with dirt, covers them with mesh, slits holes in the mesh for the plants, then plants them! They stay horizontal for about two months, then once they’ve gotten a bit established, she hangs them up like a work of living art. You can see her homemade living walls here.
Verde 360 – Living Walls in Mexico
Apr 14th
Verde 360 is a Mexican company founded in 2006 that builds and maintains living walls. They create custom living walls to green up an urban environment. They’ve done some stellar work for brands including Nike and Steve Madden using felt and custom steel irrigation trays/gutters as reservoirs. A few of their projects are below:
- Arq. Jose Luis Cortez
- 12 meters square
- San Angel, Mexico
- Steve Madden
- 12 m sq each side
- Sante Fe, Mexico
- July 2008
- Movil Module
- 6 m2 Mexico
- January 2008










