Garden Design: 10 reasons to have a living wall in your home - When you live in an urban area, any kind of greenery can be hard to find - but vertical gardens offer a wonderful way refresh your living space, inside and outside. Strengthen privacy to improving small outdoor spaces, here are 10 reasons to love this amazingly versatile feature garden.
Marylou Sobel Interior Design
Disguise a bland wall
A small patio surrounded by high buildings may feel restrictive, especially if the walls that surround it are less attractive. Consider adding a vertical garden of a double-duty solution. With rows stretching as far as the eye can see plants, it does not only cover the wall of delinquency, it creates a focal point.
A small patio surrounded by high buildings may feel restrictive, especially if the walls that surround it are less attractive. Consider adding a vertical garden of a double-duty solution. With rows stretching as far as the eye can see plants, it does not only cover the wall of delinquency, it creates a focal point.
Jeffrey Erb Landscape Design
Make a small outdoor space feel more expansive
Plants blur the boundaries along the fence lines in this walled city garden, creating a more open feeling. Try adding a mixture of potted plants, greenery in large planters and vines to create green layers in your own urban garden.
Plants blur the boundaries along the fence lines in this walled city garden, creating a more open feeling. Try adding a mixture of potted plants, greenery in large planters and vines to create green layers in your own urban garden.
Peter Landers Photography
Create an invitation outside
planting a dynamic vertical garden in an outdoor room that is visible inside of the house is a wonderful way to promote internal and external circulation . The lush foliage invites you to the outside, which makes even a small routine (as drinking your morning coffee) more likely to occur in the fresh air.
planting a dynamic vertical garden in an outdoor room that is visible inside of the house is a wonderful way to promote internal and external circulation . The lush foliage invites you to the outside, which makes even a small routine (as drinking your morning coffee) more likely to occur in the fresh air.
Bring the outdoors
Create your own sanctuary greenery inside with a green wall in the bathroom. mossy plants do well in the humid conditions of the bathroom and create a kind of backdrop soft spa to soak in the bath.
Steal one of these simple tips to bring some outside
Create your own sanctuary greenery inside with a green wall in the bathroom. mossy plants do well in the humid conditions of the bathroom and create a kind of backdrop soft spa to soak in the bath.
Steal one of these simple tips to bring some outside
Kerr Construction
Add external urban life
an exterior wall covered from top to bottom in the vertical planting is delightfully unexpected - imagine walking home along a row of brick and stucco facades smooth and pass it on green living wall. Your visitors will certainly never have trouble finding your home!
an exterior wall covered from top to bottom in the vertical planting is delightfully unexpected - imagine walking home along a row of brick and stucco facades smooth and pass it on green living wall. Your visitors will certainly never have trouble finding your home!
Aleck Wilson Architects
stand in the art
When framed and hung on the wall, a vertical garden can become a one-of-a-kind display that will receive the guests talking. Succulent with a sculptural form, or those with delicate tendrils back, are particularly well suited to this project.
Discover more ways to create a device external wall
When framed and hung on the wall, a vertical garden can become a one-of-a-kind display that will receive the guests talking. Succulent with a sculptural form, or those with delicate tendrils back, are particularly well suited to this project.
Discover more ways to create a device external wall
Alex Maguire Photography
Create your own green perspective
dull view? a vertical garden outside your window plants to make it a pleasant one in the eye. If too close neighbors are a problem, consider hiring a pro to build support for a vertical garden that "floats" outside your window, away from your sight.
dull view? a vertical garden outside your window plants to make it a pleasant one in the eye. If too close neighbors are a problem, consider hiring a pro to build support for a vertical garden that "floats" outside your window, away from your sight.
Daedalus Design Construction
Form a living screen privacy
looking for something a little different from the usual fence or hedge to give your outdoor space a more secluded feeling? A vertical garden planted on a support (stationary or even a door) can give as much or more privacy, while extending your garden.
looking for something a little different from the usual fence or hedge to give your outdoor space a more secluded feeling? A vertical garden planted on a support (stationary or even a door) can give as much or more privacy, while extending your garden.
EcoWalls
Plante without taking floor space
When even a few pots will trip you up in a narrow courtyard, leave your plants slip on the wall instead. Vertical gardens can include anything succulent edibles, depending on the available light and the type of wall planter you choose, so let your imagination run.
Take a tour of some of these edible gardens all over the world
When even a few pots will trip you up in a narrow courtyard, leave your plants slip on the wall instead. Vertical gardens can include anything succulent edibles, depending on the available light and the type of wall planter you choose, so let your imagination run.
Take a tour of some of these edible gardens all over the world
Paintbox Garden
cool our cities and refresh our minds
with their endless expanses of concrete and pavement, cities are usually lacking in fresh greenery department, may contribute to higher temperatures in hot weather. If several buildings put their facades to work with vertical gardens - as the outer walls of the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, presented here - we could begin to cool and refresh urban areas , making them more comfortable and enjoyable for everyone.
Tell us ...
do you have in your living wall House? Share your tips and photos in the comments below.
with their endless expanses of concrete and pavement, cities are usually lacking in fresh greenery department, may contribute to higher temperatures in hot weather. If several buildings put their facades to work with vertical gardens - as the outer walls of the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, presented here - we could begin to cool and refresh urban areas , making them more comfortable and enjoyable for everyone.
Tell us ...
do you have in your living wall House? Share your tips and photos in the comments below.