How To Make A Vertical Garden Living Wall
Use a stud finder to assist in locating where you will drill into the wall.
How to make a vertical garden living wall. Technically you can create a living wall by installing a trellis and training climbing plants to grow up it but for the purposes of this piece well focus on the two other types. The plants are rooted into a thick hydroponics membrane through which a nutrient enriched solution trickles pumped up from a reservoir at the base of the wall which keeps the plants fed and watered. Adding window boxes hanging pots or a garden structure such as a trellis or tuteur also provides additional exterior vertical growing space.
Thats why this vertical garden kit caught my eye. There are two different sized panels 10 and 45 and each are planted then hung on the wall using their included mounting bracket. Similar products to those used in this videoPict.
Of course Id want the finished product to look like one big living wall as opposed to several small planters. Pick the right location. Use pressure-treated lumber and galvanized planter boxes to erect a vertical garden filled with colorful greenery.
Living walls created with vertical growbags and living walls made using specially-built products some of which even include irrigation systems. Id rather build a large vertical garden out of small parts and piece them together in smaller manageable sections. In this segment I create a vertical garden using succulent wall plants and other common household objects.
And you can DIY many different kinds of planters with a few inexpensive craft or salvaged items to create your own one-of-a-kind vertical growing space. The first few images are of GroVert Vertical Gardening Systems by Bright Green. See below for a shopping list tools cut.
The last images are of living walls made from felt. Here are some fresh and imaginative ideas for your ideal vertical garden plus four tips before starting out. The best place for your vertical garden is a wall where the light will allow a wide range of plants to grow and thrive.