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Minimalist Vertical Garden

Lushe — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 02:00:09 +0000

A Brisbane couple had a renovated a warehouse that they share with a 2 year old & 2 dogs. The open plan area incorporating a kitchen, lounge, dining & main entrance was dominated by a 12m white, double height wall that runs the length of the room.

As the wall was shared with the warehouse next door, it was hard to supply water and power to the site. The solution was to install a minimalist vertical garden.

The solution was simple. Mount 9 hidden-fixing floating shelves 23cm x 23cm in white. Each shelf has 1 square white pot with Pothos drapping between the pots.

The shelves are in 2 lines with a staggered, checker board layout. With the “white on white” approach, the single species selection of Pothos really stands out.

The clients are happy to maintain the hand watering regime & there is enough available natural light for the Pothos to thrive.

This wall was installed by Pete Shields.

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A Wheatfield, with Cypresses

Lushe — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:37:45 +0000

A Van Gogh painting “‘A Wheatfield, with Cypresses’, painted in September 1889 has been brought to life through a living wall outside the National Gallery at Trafalgar Square.

See the original here

More than 8,000 plants of 26 varieties have been used to create the artwork. The painting will remain through out the English Summer and Autum until October 2011

Installed by specialist horticulture and design company ANS, Each plant was selected to match the original painting.

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Photo Source: Where the Art Is

Adelaide Zoo Green Walls

Lushe — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:00:31 +0000

Adelaide Zoo’s new Giant Panda enclosure completed in late 2009 included the installation of an indoor and outdoor green wall by Fytogreen. The zoo is now home to Wang Wang and Funi, two Giant Pandas, recently sent from the People’s Republic of China as part of an exchange program, whereby several zoos around the world have been selected to breed panda pairs.

Adelaide Zoo is home to over 1,800 animals and almost 300 species of exotic and native mammals, birds, reptiles and fish exhibited in 8 hectares of magnificent botanic surroundings.

Mainly native grasses were used in the 97sqm outdoor green wall and include 20-25 different species and over 4,600 plants.

The external green wall plant palette reflects a more dryland plant selection in line with the landscape of the forecourt located adjacent to the wall. Hardy native plants have been used including Enchylaena tomentosa or “Ruby Saltbush” which is native to the Adelaide plains. The patterning of the plants in the wall alludes to the proximity of first creek.

Species chosen for the external wall include:

Dianella caerulea ‘Little Jess’ (native) “Dianella Little Jess”
Dianella tasmanica ‘Tas Red’ (native) “Dianella Tas Red”
Enchylaena tomentosa (endemic) “Ruby Saltbush”
Lomandra confertifolia ssp. rubiginosa ‘Seascape’ (native) “Lomandra Seascape”

The plants were pre-grown off site for 20 weeks prior to installation. The green wall is automated with sensors that alerts maintenance crew for any system failure.

Spot fertiliser method was used extensively as a nutrient source. Slow release fertiliser is supplied behind the plants as well as fertigating the system through the whole wall.

The planting media is a melamine formaldehyde resin that is blown into a hard biodegradable foam slabs, wrapped and placed in frames for vertical gardens

Here you can see moss growing and also a hole caused by a removed plant. The brown irrigation lines run above each cell.

The vertical garden is irrigated for about 10 minutes per day. As you can see below the water is not recycled as only a small amount is leaked into the garden bed below.

The plant palette for the internal green wall is more lush in comparison to the external green wall. The intent was to use as many native plants as possible but due to availability from the nursery & suitability for the internal location this was not possible for the whole plant palette.

The 110 sqm indoor green wall has the following plant species:

Adiantum sp. (native) “Spleenwort”
Asplenium oblongifolium “Shining Spleenwort”
Blechnum nudum (native) “Fishbone Waterfern”
Crytomium sp. “Holly Fern”
Davallia pyxidata (native) “Hare’s?Foot Fern”
Dichondra repens ‘Emerald Falls’ (native) “Kidney Weed”
Doodia aspera (native) “Prickly Rasp Fern”
Liriope ‘Evergreen Giant’ “Lilyturf”
Peperomia sp. “Ripple Plant”
Polypodium ‘Blue Star’ “Rock Polypody”
Pteris albo?liniata “Brake Fern”
Pteris umbrosa (native) “Jungle Brake”
Selaginella sp. “Spikemoss”
Soleirolia soleirolii “Baby Tears”
Streptocarpus caulescens “Nodding Violet”
Tradescantia ‘Spiderwort’ “Spiderwort”
Viola hederacea (native) “Native Violet”

There was a long growing?on time for the plants to create 100% plant coverage at the time of installation. The modules were transported from Victoria and installed on site along with the irrigation system.

References – www.ancr.com.au, www.hydroponics.com.au, www.zoossa.com.au

Cava Tapas and Wine Bar

Lushe — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:00:27 +0000

On a sunny afternoon in September 2010, scaffolding and construction obscured the front of Cava Tapas and Wine Bar, a small restaurant with an outdoor patio tucked away on Commercial Alley in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. But within a few hours, the plain brick facade was transformed into a vertical garden, the first such garden in the area: The Coastal Home- Charles C Hugo Landscape Design Vertical Garden at Cava.

More than half a dozen species of predominantly native perennials fill the 160 square feet of vertical green space, a design planned and executed by Charles Hugo and Maya Travaglia of Charles C Hugo Landscape Design Lynn Felici-Gallant, former editor of Tastes sister publication Coastal Home magazine, spearheaded the project, the result of eight months of planning, fundraising, and organizing of volunteers.

Indeed, the project utilized the services of over a dozen sponsors and volunteers, including donations by film producer Chase Bailey and Seacoast businessmen William Matos and John Forma. Four New Hampshire nurseries Van Berkum Nursery, Stonepost Nursery Pleasant View Gardens/Proven Winners and Rolling Green Nursery plants and soil, Rainscape Lawn Sprinkler Systems supplied irrigation, and GroWalls donated the vertical wall system at a not-for-profit rate. Other generous donors included Rockingham Electric, FX Luminaire, electrician Sid Madore of Raymond, N.H. and Caswell Mechanical.

Felici-Gallant, who is also a garden and container designer and current marketing manager for Pleasant View Gardens, joined forces with Hugo and Travaglia to determine the ideal site for the garden.

Cava has a European feel to it, given the courtyard, outdoor seating, and location in Commercial Alley. Since vertical gardens originated in Paris, Cava felt like the appropriate spot. Because the garden would feature area woodland perennials, it also needed a wall with a lot of shade, and the Cava facade was ideal.

One of the reasons this vertical garden is unique, even on a national scale, is that it uses predominantly native New England plants, says Felici-Gallant. “To our knowledge, there isnt another native-plants vertical garden in the country.”

“When they approached us and offered to do the garden, it was a no-brainer to say yes, says John Akar, co-owner of Cava. Its a beautiful, beautiful piece of work. Chef and co-owner Gregg Sessler agrees. Its absolutely gorgeous, he says. It adds amazing atmosphere to the patio. Its pretty incredible, and were ecstatic and honored that its there.”

Hugo and Travaglia were both eager to be involved in this first-of-its-kind project. We were very excited to do something new, something cutting edge for the Seacoast, Travaglia enthuses. And something for the community too, Hugo adds. Its public art, really. We tried to choose plants that would look good, complement each other, and create an interesting design. The perennial plants are evergreen or semi-evergreen, so the wall will transform with the seasons.

Photos supplied with permission from Lynn Felici-Gallant

Biozotea’s Vertical Garden

Lushe — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:00:08 +0000

Mexican Vertical Garden Firm, Biozotea have recently installed a vertical garden involving 3,000 plants.

In this project the support structure was built using aluminum, which was very practical solution for its lightness and speed. The photo below shows the plastic modules with the plants growing in a nursery.

An ingenious part of the installation is that 80% of water used for irrigation comes from the effect of condensation of A / C, which stores and drip irrigation is used in the wall. Below is a photo of the transportation to site.

Plants installed with the drip irrigation being laid in between modules

Does quite look like a vertical garden on the first day.

After 10 weeks the wall looks amazing

AREA: 62.50 m2

ALTURA: 3.00 metros HEIGHT: 3.00 meters

LONGITUD: 21.00 metros LENGTH: 21.00 meters

PLANTAS: 3000 PLANT: 3000

MÓDULOS: 250 MODULES: 250

ESPECIES: Jasminum spp, Ophiopogon japonicus, Rosmarinus officinalis, Plectranthus australis, Nephrolepis exaltata, Chlorophytum comosum ‘Variegatum’., Zoysia japonica, Lamiestrón, Salvia farinacea, Trasdecantia sillamontana. SPECIES: Jasminum spp, Ophiopogon japonicus, Rosmarinus officinalis, Plectranthus australis, Nephrolepis exaltata, Chlorophytum comosum ‘Variegatum’., Zoysia japonica, Lamiestrón, Salvia farinacea, Trasdecantia sillamontana.

FECHA DE INSTALACIÓN: Mayo 2010. INSTALLATION DATE: May 2010.

Jute Sack Vertical Garden

Lushe — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:00:11 +0000

On Nafas Art Magazine I found an exhibition in Berlin in 2008 by Mona Hatoum that used 770 jute sacks filled with seeds to create a simple vertical garden.

The exhibition, strangely called “The Hanging Garden” is described below.

“Mona Hatoum is showing a constantly changing installational sculpture at the gallery of Berlin’s DAAD artists program. Hatoum had 770 jute sacks stacked up to head level; the resulting pile is 10 meters long and resembles the sandbag barricades used in battle as shelter from enemy gunfire”

“But in this case the sacks are filled with seeds that continue sprouting throughout the duration of the exhibition. The artist thereby seems to take up a conceptual thread from her early works, which were located in the area of performance: temporary works in public space.”

Semiahmoo Public Library Green Wall

Lushe — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:00:12 +0000

Patrick Poiraud from Green over Grey Designers emailed in some photos of a vertical garden they have just completed at Semiahmoo Public Library in Canada. According to Patrick, it is “the largest and most biologically diverse outdoor green wall in North America”. It is located in Surrey, Canada, covering the Semiahmoo Public Library and RCMP Facility.

The 3,000 square feet design incorporates over 10,000 individual plants representing more than 120 unique species. It includes ground covers, large perennials, shrubs and small trees. The large diversity of plant species chosen creates a balanced ecosystem that is an urban oasis for bees, butterflies and hummingbirds.

The living wall helps to insulate the building, purify the air and transforms the grey concrete into hundreds of shades of green. The initial inspiration for this garden came from the artwork of the Coast Salish (including Semiahmoo) First Nations People.

We look forward to seeing the living wall in a years time when it has fully developed.

Longwood Gardens Green Wall

Lushe — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:00:37 +0000

The largest green wall in North America was unveiled October 9 at the world-renowned Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA.

The flagship of Longwood’s redesigned East Conservatory Plaza wing is the 4,072 sq ft green wall, displacing the title of North America’s largest green wall from the PNC Bank building in Pittsburgh by over 70 percent. The green wall was designed by was designed by GSky.

The Process

The Green Wall was installed over three installation sessions. The frames were installed first over a three week installation, the irrigation was then installed while the panels were being installed. The entire installation took a full six weeks to complete.

Plants

The 47,000 plants include Maidenhair Fern, Lipstick Vine, East Indian Fern, Asparagus Fern, Victoria Birdsnest Fern, Austral Gem Fern, Hart’s Tongue Fern, Tatting Fern, Spider Plant, Grape Ivy, Holly Fern, Rabbits Foot Fern, Krauss Gold Tip Spikemoss, Wart-Kangaroo Fern, Compacta Fern, Lemon Button Fern, Dallas Fern, Button Fern, Heart Leaf, Artillery Plant, Fern ‘Green Wave’, Tassle Fern, Blue Star Polypodium, Scouler’s Polypodium, Vareigated Green Brake Fern, Leatherleaf Fern

Maintenance

Maintenance is handled by the dedicated staff of horticulturists at Longwood Gardens. A scissor lift is used to maintain the plants on the upper areas of the wall. Remote operated drip line irrigation and an array of sensors maintain the plants to help ensure quality control and longevity of the plants

Installation Details

Location	1001 Longwood Rd, Kennett Square, Chester, PA 19348
Client	Longwood Gardens
Architect	Kim Wilke Associates
Landscape Architect	wells appel landscape architects
Green Wall Designer(s)	Kim Wilke
General Contractor	Bancroft Construction
Green Wall Contractor	Ambius Inc.
Grower	Michaels Nursery
Maintenance Contractor	Longwood Gardens Maintenance Team
Date Installed	October 2010
Product Type	Green Wall Panels (Interior)
Total Size	4,072 Sq Ft
Climate	Interior

Via Inhabitat, GSky

Phyto Universe Living Wall

Lushe — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:00:04 +0000

Phyto Universe is an upmarket hair and beauty salon in Manhattan. A major feature of the building is a 2,850 square foot living wall installed by Laurent Corradi.

The living wall was made of an aluminiun frame with PVC sheets covered in felt on each side.

The vertical garden design includes 9,000 plants including philodendron, ponytail, hibiscus, ferns, anthurium, ficus and begonia. Irrigation of the plants is for one minute 3 times daily.

Photo via The Beauty Alchemist

ITP Living Systems has taken some close up photos

Archidose has taken some photos of the exterior of the building

Phyto Universe doesn’t offer cuts or color, instead the focus is on scalp and hair. Therapies to remedy dandruff, dry strands, thinning manes and overly kinky locks cost $150 to $350. The price is probably worth it to see a green wall this good.

Recycled Advertising Banners

Lushe — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:00:49 +0000

WallGreen is an entry by Erika Jacobs Lord in the RE:FRAME competition. Re:Frame asks designers to come up with new ways to recycle printed PVC advertising banners. They want to know what can be designed from old scaffolding sheets apart from bags? WallGreen is a hanging vertical garden made from recycled PVC vinyl that improves indoor air quality.

Any PVC banner with a minimum size of 600 mm high and 400 mm wide can be fabricated into a working product.

Measurements for this example: 2000 x 1000 x ca 100 mm.Original banner was 2000 x 2000 mm.
Growing pockets are sewn to 160 mm deep.

Pockets are folded and sewn with standard thread along side seams and attached to the back layer at 300mm intervals.
Caulking at the side seams creates a watertight seal.

Growing medium is expanded clay and potting mix.

Plants chosen were Epiprenum aurem (Golden Pothos), Hedera Helix “Wonder” (English Ivy), Adiantum fragrans (Maidenhair Fern), Belchnum gibbem (“Silver Lady” Fern)

WallGreen – a vertical garden from Studio Lord on Vimeo.