DIY Greenwalls
How To Build A Vertical Garden & DIY Guides
Urbanization has robbed Mother Nature of space to place her beautiful brood of plants and flowers. Known also as a living wall, green wall or sky farm, vertical gardens are well-suited for an urban environment where space is limited. So if you can’t go wide, what do you do? You go up! Many business establishments are going green in their step towards being both environmentally-friendly in today’s urban jungle. Image credit: shaggyshoo (teesha) / Flickr One of the most well-known buildings that have adopted this greening effect is the Musee Du Quai Branly which is a French museum near the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Patrick’s own websites details facts about how there are so many species of plants that do not require soil to grow. While the average green thumb enthusiast may not be able to emulate the scale and grandeur of Blanc\’s work, you can have your own DIY vertical garden in your garden. What You Should Be Mindful of When Building A Vertical Garden The Basics of a DIY Vertical Garden
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It’s approaching the end of summer and rather than saying good-bye to your herbs why not go inside and try an indoor vertical herb garden? But, if you live in an apartment and have space restrictions a permanent vertical herb garden might just be the solution for you – where you can have herbs inside all year round. You may also like to get creative and add colour by adding succulents. When growing any vertical garden indoors or outdoors the biggest consideration is choosing the wall and analysing how much light you will get. What should you grow your herbs in? The best solution when growing herbs inside is to use woolly pockets as they provide the right environment for growing herbs and vegetables. Top Herbs To Grow Inside on Your Vertical Garden Walls Which Don’t Get Much Light If your wall doesn’t get much light there are herbs which will have a better chance of survival indoors. Sun Loving Herbs Greek oregano is a very sun loving herb insisting on at least six to eight hours of sun.
Top 10 Best Do-It-Yourself Green Projects
This is why, as soon as I came across the winners of the Green Living and Technology Challenge, organized by the user ‘Danger is my middle name’, I had to tell you about it. The top 10 green projects that can make even the biggest non-green lovers think twice, are truly fascinating and should all be paid the needed respect by at least being checked out (if not made in our back yard). There is no particular order, they are all winners. 1. Solar kiln. Originally designed by staff and students at Verginia Tech (VT), and then perfected by Instructables’ user dorybob, this great invention is a big wooden box, or a shed, with a roof that acts as a greenhouse to generate hot air, and an internal solar collector. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Vertical Garden
Two years ago, in Los Angeles, where land is tight and water precious, Joan and William Feldman faced a common problem: Their home's small entry court, which doubles as a view garden for their living room, was stark and bare, hardly welcoming to visitors. A raised pond with a fountain couldn't compensate for the lack of green, but there was little ground for any plantings. The solution, devised by landscape designer Mia Lehrer and her associate, Holly Kuwayama, was to hang a garden on the wall, a leafy picture that could thrive without much soil or water. Their clients, avid art collectors, loved the concept of a living counterpart to their indoor paintings, and they were keen on succulents, which Lehrer had used with great success on green roofs around the city. "These plants need little water, so they're less heavy than other choices, and their shallow roots require less soil," notes Lehrer, who is captivated by the range of shapes, colors and textures succulents provide.
Urbio Urban Vertical Garden
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Growing vertical is in vogue. Wander European streets and you will stumble upon beautiful gardens and magnificent living walls which leave you breathless and envious. The Europeans know how to make the best use of the limited space they have with their vertical gardens. But, even when space saving isn’t the objective, the vertical gardens are about beauty. The creation of your living wall needs a few things: Wall or railing (inside or out) for you hang your living gardenLiving wall panel cells (planter)PlantsCreative DesignSoil The steps to your living wall masterpiece: Step One: Identify the space where you want your living wall. Step Two: Measure how big you want your living wall. Lets refer to this as planter cells to avoid confusion. The planter cells also come with angled slats which enables the plants you select to grow vertically. Step Three: It’s important to choose the right plants and remember to look at the area where you are going to hang your living wall. Step Four: Step Five:
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