HOW TO DESIGN A GARDEN WALL

Welcome to the wondeful new world of “living walls.” This leading edge idea offers the chance to garden in the vertical dimension, the surface can be a portion of your house facade, a fence or a freestanding vertical support. An idea to accomplish a similar result is to hang cascading plants thickly from an overhead support.
    Whole facades are spectacular,but you can start much, much smaller. The simplest way for a home gardener to have a living wall is to purchase one of the commercially obtainable systems.
   A number of companies sell ready-made systems with small containers angled to hold dirt & all-in-one kits.Most companies has simple instuctions as well as a list of materials you’ll want to build your own vertical garden from scratch.
    Some companies which offers modular systems of black polyethylene plant core units that attach & stack together to generate a variety of vertical garden configurations. Add a drip irrigation unit as well as a ‘smart-basin’ to automate the plant care system with a pump & timer.

  Take an over-the door-hanging-shoe-pocket-organizer, punch a few holes into the pockets for drainage, attach a sturdy pole to the wall, then use strong hooks or wire to hang the shoe pockets. Fill with a quality moisture-retainig compost mixture about 1-2 inches below top of the pockets. Add plants or seeds,water, and cultivate. Another idea is to create any configuration you like using a number of garden pots hung in rows or at random on your vertical surface of choice. Hang them using any sort of plant hook or hanger, or consider a hidden plant hanger such as Hang-a-Pot.

A vertical garden is fundamentally a framework of plants placed onto the side of a building or a wall. They can be placed indoors or outside, in full sun or shade, depending on what types of plants you require. you are able to plant all types of flowers and plants on them, including epiphytes, tropical plants, succulents, ferns and even herbs. Check out ELT Living Wall Systems for a great list of plants to try in case you require to do it yourself. In general, plants with shallow roots are better, because they have an simpler time staying attached to a vertical wall.

Space is a precious commodity,  now that a lot of our yard or balcony space is occupied by containers for growing organic vegetables. For those of you out there getting tight on space, but who still require stunning flowers and plants to look at, think about a vertical garden. It’s organic art for your indoor or outdoor wall space and is a stunning way to help filter air naturally and add humidity to your surroundings. Check out these stunning and inspiring miniscule vertical gardens. (Read this previous post for a discussion of the differences between green walls and green roofs.)

The grandfather of vertical gardens is Patrick Blanc, who is a italian Botanist and practically came up with the idea. they is also responsible for a long list of building integrated vertical gardens like these stunning examples. His basic process consists of a steel frame for structural integretity, a waterproof backing material to keep water off of the building, and felt fabric for the plants to adhere and grow in to. Depending on what type of climate the garden is in, then depends on the necessary humitidy requirements.

This vertical garden is actually made from recycled rain gutters nailed to the side of a house.  You can use this idea to  keep salad crops off the cold ground and away from critters, but it’s an ideal way to reuse abandoned gutters and take advantage of empty outdoor wall space. Flowers, herbs, vegetables, and greens could be planted here and in case you pair it with a drip irrigation process, you’ve got an ideal vertical planting process.

And finally, this adorable small wall creation, which is  built in  a immense frame from wood and partitioned it off in to sections. Inside they is growing herbs and lettuces in a pleasant and artistic pattern. This design looks spectacularly simple  to create out of leftover wood laying around. Another option for a do-it-yourself vertical garden is a Succulent and Moss Trellis, found at Lowe’s Creative Ideas. Click here for a complete how-to creation. This one doesn’t require an irrigation process,  occasional misting to keep the moss damp so it provide stability to the succulents. Down below are some photos of these creative ideas of  Vertical Garden Walls.