Vertical Gardens from Green Over Grey
A vertical garden design company from Vancouver, B.C. – Green Over Grey – has some great looking living walls. They offer consultation, design, installation and maintenance to follow up. Here are a few samples from their photo gallery showing some of their vertical gardens:
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Vancouver indoor living wall
Green wall by a swimming pool in Vancouver
Green wall in conference room
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Green Design’s Vertical Gardens
March 9, 2010 - 10:38 am
Tags: container garden, green wall, wall of planters
Posted in Living Walls | 5 comments
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 [...]
Movable Green Wall
March 5, 2010 - 9:12 pm
Tags: green wall
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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
March 1, 2010 - 11:30 pm
Tags: espalier, living fence, pleaching, Topiary, vertical garden
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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 [...]
Biowalls Explored in More Detail
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 [...]
Landscape Architect Elif Bonelli’s Vertical Garden
February 21, 2010 - 3:44 pm
Tags: green wall, living wall, outdoor greenwall
Posted in Making living wall art | 1 comment
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 [...]
A German Vertical Garden System
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 [...]
Biowall – Morristown Building Goes Green
February 17, 2010 - 1:47 am
Tags: clean air, vertical garden
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The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation installed a biowall in their New Jersey building. The bio-wall is a 3 story (38 ft tall by 14 ft wide) vertical garden that uses a water and air permeable growing media. That allows the air to blow right by the roots which take the VOC’s right out of the [...]
Vertical Garden on Sunset Blvd
February 7, 2010 - 9:37 am
Tags: vertical garden
Posted in Living Walls | 2 comments
Natural Mind is moving into the neighborhood and is installing a living wall on Sunset Blvd in Silver Lake. The process has been going on for many months to install the new salon, but it looks like the salon is going to be rewarded with a stunning store front.
You can see the pockets of dirt [...]
Different types of Vertical Gardens Analyzed
February 5, 2010 - 9:30 am
Tags: other designs, vertical garden
Posted in Making living wall art | 1 comment
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 [...]
Outdoor vertical succulent garden
February 3, 2010 - 4:08 pm
Tags: diy, green design, green wall
Posted in Vertical gardens | 13 comments
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 [...]
November 27, 2009 - 10:53 am
Beautiful living walls you have shown here. Besides the health benefit from plants growing indoors these walls would add art to a room and I know this is a place I would want to be.
I am working on a living wall for my living room right now.
Denise´s last blog ..Indoor Gardening
November 28, 2009 - 8:22 pm
That’s great, Denise. If you’ve got pictures of your living wall and want to share them, I’d love to post them on this site if you want.