Here’s an interesting set of vertical garden designs from Sustainable Garden Design in Perth, Australia. As you can see right away, there’s an interesting choice of plants for the vertical garden due to the climate and the designs are really unique. Using a combination of rocks and interesting building materials, these living walls really stand [...]
Wyatt Federal Building is planning to build a row of 250 ft. trellises along the west side of its building. SERA Architects is in charge of the remodel of the entire building and has a $135 million budget from the Federal stimulus fund. It’s a unique vertical garden that’s build on a series of 7 [...]
February 9, 2010 - 3:12 pm
Tags: building, clean air, green design
Posted in Air filter | 1 comment
Nedlaw Living Walls make living walls with a purpose – to clean out indoor air pollutants and allergens. It’s a different focus than standard living walls/vertical gardens. Given the correct installation of the living walls, they can actually replace traditional air filters in your home.
The leaves of the plants change the carbon dioxide into oxygen, [...]
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 28, 2010 - 10:11 pm
Tags: wall planter
Posted in Moss wall | 4 comments
Just the other day a reader, Andrew, was asking me how to build a moss wall. He saw the idea from A Japanese Moss Wall and was wondering about making his own and wanted to know if I had any advice.
Well it just so happens that I made an attempt at getting a moss wall [...]
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 [...]
Peter and Bob do a great job showing with pictures how to make a vertical garden. They built a living wall in Miami using felt and a metal frame to hold the vertical garden to the wall. Here are the pictures that help show what the construction process was like for Peter and Bob.
More:Hotspotting’s close-up [...]
These vertical gardens can be built and designed by you on a budget. These were found from http://www.lushe.com.au.
Bag and Plant
The first one is an easy-to-build vertical garden made out of a hessian bag.. or really almost any type of mesh bag.. stuffed with rockwool. Just cut some slits in the bag and the rockwool, stuff [...]
Overview
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 [...]
Here’s a collection of various living walls from around the world 1acrain put together on youtube. Vertical gardens are really gaining in popularity and it’s amazing to see all the different styles of this living wall art in so many countries around the globe.
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DIY vertical garden
Living Wall and Vertical Garden Directory
Martha Stewart’s Vertical [...]
January 24, 2010 - 1:50 am
Hi Gavin – this is a great design -
January 27, 2010 - 4:40 am
It’s really a wonderful invantion. The grass mirror , this is first time when i came to know about it. Great.