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Plants & containers as one gesture. Living wall ideas at Grand Designs Melbourne

  Grand Designs in Melbourne Australia is featuring some pretty fabulous plant inspired products this year. Many of them related to the living wall trend. The sculptural ‘Barrel of Monkey’ planters shown above is beautiful. The designer (Adam Cornish) has integrated the structure of the plant with the form of its container. Rather than trying [...]

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Screaming rigid plastic – a living wall planter by Woolly Pocket

  Photo: inhabitat   The new living wall planter  from Woolly Pocket has been unveiled in the USA. I keep thinking ‘Do I really want an object in my living room  that screams ‘plastic container’ on my wall?’ I suppose minigarden is glaringly plastic  – and that is a favourite amongst Garden Beet customers – [...]

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Woolly Pockets. Plants thrive at BBC Gardeners’ World living walls.

  The Only Way Is Up! Visitors to this year’s BBC Gardeners World at the NEC cannot fail to be impressed by the wall of wonder that is on display outside the floral marquee. By using Woolly Pockets, supplied by Garden Beet, the Gardeners World Living Wall demonstrates just how fun and versatile vertical gardening [...]

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How to get a ‘flat’ wall appearance with a Woolly Pocket

   Photo: John Connel   This is the neatest installation of Woolly Pockets I have seen. Built for the Oceans Stand at this years Chelsea Flower Show (2012). The wall recess is going to allow the plants to be flush with surrounding surfaces. Perfect. Occasionally I hear Woolly Pockets getting a bad wrap (not from people who have [...]

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Woolly Pockets at the Garden of Disorientation, Chelsea Fringe

    London is entering its  ‘plant based’ excitement season. This year London is doubly more exciting than in the past as it now has a CHELSEA FRINGE . If in London’s east end during May and June take a look at the Woolly Pockets in the Mojito bar. The bar is part of the [...]

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Not a New Idea. Check out faux Vertical Gardens

    Vertical gardens are claimed by some to be a new planting trend. I suppose it all depends on your exposure to garden design.  But Garden Beet is beginning to think that… maybe ….the vertical garden genre is a fairly well understood design concept. Today I saw faux living walls in a discount supermarket. Yes the plants above are [...]

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Cheap fabric living wall planters – forget it – go to Ikea

If you want plants growing on a wall and you want them to grow well Garden Beet still gives a number one vote to the Wally Pocket. Unfortunately the Wally Pocket is expensive – and that is a problem for some. I have seen approximately 10 copies of the Wally Pockets and really I would [...]

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A cheap vertical garden idea – edge your climber

This vertical garden is primarily made from ficus creeper. Its not a new generation living wall (ie made up of plants that do not normally creep up a wall such as ferns, grasses etc)  but it certainly tricked me. The sharp edges of the creeper gave the appearance that it was a vertical garden made [...]

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A super plant for a vertical garden. Trailing lotus – great wall of living silver

A super plant for a vertical garden. Trailing lotus – great wall of living silver

Its a rare day when I buy plants at the supermarket but I made an allowance as these plants were in perfect condition for an instant vertical garden . The trails were well over 2 metres and in full red-pea flower.   For $60 aus I picked up three Trailing Lotus’ Lotus berthelotii at Woolworths [...]

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Vertical gardens in China – full of colour

  Images by Janoel Liddy Here is a vertical garden along the bund in Shanghai China. The flowers are a great colour lift for the highly polluted city (photographer did not see the sun for 4 weeks due to the pollution haze – jeeps!) . The big round dishes are lights. Below is a shot [...]

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