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 [...]
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 [...]
Here is my new system to build a vertical garden – it is my next project. Please excuse the messy planting – this is concept stage only. I think the galvansied steel conventional hooded vents might be a cheap solution (approx £3.99UK or $4.00 Aus) to creating wall planters (and even a vertical [...]
Well it seems I missed the opportunity to have another entry on The Dry Garden: A skeptic’s view of vertical gardens in the LA times. Stupidly I made the following point on the author’s blog. But she removed it – partly because I insulted her for which I apologise – but my points remain valid and need [...]
Gosh Mandy Buckland provided a great urban garden (complete with thin lines of living walls) at this year’s Hampton Court show. A compact contemporary garden that I could definitely live with. It was the first garden I saw and soon became my favourite. The garden featured strawberries growing in the walls and along the table top. [...]
..ho hum ……….yet another garden designer stated that vertical gardens were a fad…AGAIN………. Well my plants are so happy with their wall planters that they are exploding with the most ridiculous colours – I never intended for yellow/pink/purple flowers to all come together – this garden was only ever temporary……(no not a fad, but a trial garden). [...]
Thanks Eye Candy for these pictures. Architects REC Arquitectura have been playing around with traditional roofing materials and have transferred the straw, or plalapa, roofs of Mexico and used the material for walls. Very beautiful, innovative and contemporary use of a traditional building material. It’s also an interesting twist on using roofing materials on walls given the growing [...]
I gave the Westfield green wall planting a hard time a couple of months ago – it seemed bland and not varied enough for the size of the wall. I need to slightly amend my criticism. I returned to the Westfield living wall today and the planting design looked more varied now the plants have grown and some species are [...]
Here are some shots of the green wall at the O2 centre in London’s east. While some of the plants are failing (sedums) I like the shape of this green wall and how it sits within the broader landscape. The main section of the green wall (front and sides) use some type of netted soil [...]
I was pretty disappointed by the public landscape design of Westfield Shopping Centre – it is just another bland outdoor space. But it has a green wall? Yes, that is interesting. And the green wall curves? Yes that is interesting. And the green wall incorporates seating at its base. Yes, nice concept but its not executed with much finesse. Overall [...]
