Inside Urban Green

Vertical Gardens: Count The Ways To Make Them

Here is yet another way to make a living wall (aka vertical garden, green wall). This one is a cleverly done aquaponics planter. It has a fish tank below it. Check out the step by step photo instructions.

Harking back to my days in the interior plantscaping business, my big concern is that many people who make gardens like these may not have experience growing plants in low light interiors. I don't see any sign of auxiliary lighting in the photos. This is tricky business. I see many "brown walls" in the future. 

Figure out how you are going to arrange your plants first. Here we’ve chosen Alocasia (elephant ear), Nephrolepis (fern), Scindapsus (pothos), Ficus pumilla (creeping fig), Chlorophytum (spider plant) and Asparagus.

via urbangardenmagazine.com

Vertical Gardens: Root Wrappers Look Like A Good Idea

This looks like an excellent idea from Plants On Walls in San Francisco. Although I haven't product tested them, I like the fact that the roots have an "anchoring medium". All of this is evocative of the green wall maestro Patrick Blanc.

via plantsonwalls.com

Root Wrappers keep the roots protected and moist, and the dirt contained. Use them in the pockets of our Vertical Garden Panels where the water-absorbing fabric wicks water around the root ball. Great for changing and arranging your plants and keeping collections that are portable and easy to handle because the dirt is completely contained. It's a whole new way of thinking about gardening.

Link Vertical Community Gardening In Our Future?

Call it what you like, vertical garden, living wall or green wall Lushe in Australia is most likely going to be on top of it.

This post is about a clever idea meant to be the basis for "community gardening". I'd love to see a system like this along with sub-irrigated planters (SIPs) become a reality in the community gardening movement.



Do they ever need some new thinking? My observation is that many of them are homes for Luddites when they should be encouraging people from all lifestyles including technology.

Catering solely to dirt huggers makes a mockery of the word community.

via www.lushe.com.au

Vertical Gardens Around The World

This site presents a most interesting collection of photos showing the diversity of vertical gardens (aka living walls, green walls) around the world (mostly Europe).

The descriptions are brief so you will need to do some searching for more information about those that interest you. Nonetheless, the collection is impressive and adds much to the subject.

Vertical gardens are obviously a significant urban greenscaping movement. For one thing, they could revolutionize the interior plantscaping industry.

via www.verticalgardendesign.com

Green Walls Around the World: Check Off Nova Scotia

If we're building a green wall (aka living wall, vertical garden) to go around the world, check off Nova Scotia, Canada. Well, not all of it, but at least one wall at the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) Centre for the Built Environment in Dartmouth.

It's great to see these young people stretching their minds and experiencing something other than a horticultural world of dirt and drain holes. Well done NSCC! 

via www.greendiary.com (see more photos)

Not only will the green wall (living wall), installed at Nova Scotia Community College’s (NSCC) Center for the Built Environment, bring a shade of green to the Waterfront Campus, it will also create habitat for numerous creatures and purify the air as well. Laden with no less than a 7,000 plants, the wall will be a breathing canvas that changes with every season.

A New Green Wall In The UK: Yet Another First

It seems as if there is a new "living wall" (aka green wall, vertical garden) "first" at least once a week. Is the planet destined to be covered with green walls?

This one in the U.K. has the distinction of being temporary. It's part of the construction fence, or hoardings around the new Library of Birmingham building. 

Although not quite portable, this living wall will move on to another construction project when the library is completed in 2012. Then it will be relegated to being the second, third, or who knows what place "hoardings living wall" in the world. Alas, such is life in our fast changing, fifteen minutes of fame world.

via directoryofbirmingham.com

The Library of Birmingham is set to demonstrate its green credentials before it is even built with the introduction of a world first – a ‘living wall’ on the site hoardings in Centenary Square.

Kuwait’s 360 Mall’s Vertical Garden

Gavin at Living Wall Art posted a cool photo spread of the vertical gardens (aka living walls, green walls) in Kuwait's 360 Mall. Have a look.

via www.livingwallart.com

The Gardens in the 360 Mall is the only place where you can find a vertical garden in Kuwait. The garden centre also boasts Japanese Koi, reflecting pools, cafes and seats on warm wood decks.

Since introducing the new vertical garden, the 360 MALL has been attracting many visitors across the country and from around the world. The zone is surrounded by glass walls which allows the sun’s rays to penetrate the mall’s surroundings providing a naturally beautiful scenic view.

CNN Reports On Urban Food Production

CNN published an interesting piece about urban food production around the world.

There are also three videos including one featuring the inimitable Patrick Blanc l'homme aux cheveux verts . I continue to see versions of his vertical gardens (aka green walls, living walls) wherever I go on the web. They are living testimonials to his creativity.

Source: edition.cnn.com
Via: Jetson Green

London, England (CNN) -- As the world's urban population continues to grow at a rapid rate, communities around the world are increasingly turning to "city agriculture" to produce cheap, locally grown fruit and vegetables.

Meet Maximilian Kemper, Talented Landscape Architect And Urban Greenscaper

via www.youtube.com

Max, come to New York. Dublin is a great city but 8 million people in the Big Apple need you.

Just stay out of Times Square and off the Staten Island Ferry and you'll be fine.

via www.glda.ie

Maximilian Kemper

Max founded MAXIMIZE DESIGN following an internationally acclaimed Silver-Gilt winning show garden at Bloom 2008.

Garden Beet Blog: Green Walls And Roofs

The Photo is from a blog called Garden Beet. It is published by Garden Beet Ltd, a commercial website. The owner is a U.K. landscape architect.

There are many installation photos of green walls along with other greenscaping projects. Have a look.

via gardenbeet.wordpress.com