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 [...]
February 1, 2010 - 12:38 pm
Tags: container garden, diy
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Here’s a diy guide to container gardening – vertically. It has 35 containers growing plants.. could even be something like strawberries.. that takes up the footprint the same size as one plant. But since it grows up, this container garden uses less space.
The basic idea is to use PVC piping (you don’t even have to [...]
Alyssa from http://akitverticalgarden.blogspot.com has made a living wall in Washintgon that allows her to grow flowers and edibles such as parsley and lettuce vertically.
Alyssa mentioned that her game plan was to build a vertical wall of dirt then plant it. They had some questions first such as: How would we stabilize it? What will we [...]
December 17, 2009 - 11:55 am
Tags: food, herbs, outdoor greenwall
Posted in Living Walls | 2 comments
Here’s an innovative solution from Suzanne Forsling to grow food in Alaska at her home. She couldn’t grow food well in her backyard because the ground was too cold since she lived fairly close to a glacier. The best sunny spot to grow the food was up the side of her house so she bought [...]
Two different styles of vertical gardens are discussed here. The first is using a panel to build an outdoor vertical garden, and the second is how to build your own vertical herb garden. A landscape designer from the UK (I believe) came up with this design.. it looks to be very practical and something that [...]
Wondering what type of plants work best in your home? Well.. if you’re just going by looks, you can go to your local nursery and decide for yourself. Your local nursery will show you what plants you can grow indoors and what specific requirements they have in terms of water and light. However, if you [...]
Condo or apartment living can be a bit frustrating at times as you feel you’re stuck in the middle of a concrete jungle. Since you typically find condos and apartments in a downtown core, you’re constantly surrounded by paved roads, bricked buildings, cars, shops, etc.. but relatively little in the way of gardens. I was [...]
