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 7, 2010 - 10:07 am
Tags: living wall
Posted in Vertical gardens | 1 comment
I love the closeup of the wall below. It clearly shows each plant growing out of a little felt pocket. Some walls use perlite, others dirt, and others just let the plant’s bare roots sit in the pocket. There’s typically two layers of felt at a minimum. The front blanket of felt has the rips [...]
March 5, 2010 - 9:12 pm
Tags: green wall
Posted in Vertical gardens | No comments
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 [...]
Pleaching and espalier are two techniques used to create interesting living walls. Pleaching involves weaving the branches of closely grouped trees together. The result is a living wall created over many years. Farmers use this technique with fruit trees as well as with hedges to make them more secure. Note the size of the living [...]
February 25, 2010 - 7:33 pm
Tags: building, clean air, green wall
Posted in Air filter | 2 comments
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 [...]
February 23, 2010 - 1:31 pm
Tags: pooktre, Topiary
Posted in Misc | No comments
I just discovered this recent form of eco art. It’s not exactly a living wall, but it’s definitely unique. Pooktre is the art of gradually shaping trees to serve as sculptures or even furniture over long periods of time.
Becky and Peter from Australia (pooktre.com) have grown furniture, tree people and even jewelry directly out of trees. Becky [...]
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
Tags: green wall
Posted in Making living wall art | No comments
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 [...]
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 [...]
January 29, 2010 - 10:33 pm
Tags: Topiary
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A reader from Russia, Vadim, emailed me about some of the amazing topiary work he’s done there. Some of the work includes huge topiary pillars that surround a patio outdoors as well as some very interesting topiary designs of animals such as deers and bears. Usually I don’t post topiaries on here unless it’s to [...]
December 12, 2009 - 6:28 pm
gosh love it – you may like my website? seems we are interested in similar topics – will add you to my blog roll
http://www.gardenbeet.com
December 14, 2009 - 4:19 pm
Hey Felicity,
Yeah those are pretty cool designs there. I do like your site. I’m going to be starting a bit of a directory and I’ll be adding your services for the UK hopefully within the month.
December 14, 2009 - 4:31 pm
excellent – can you please send me a link when done and I’ll add it to my design blog
December 22, 2009 - 8:29 pm
Hey Felicity.. so the directory is up if you want to add your site!