Vertical gardens (photo). How to make a vertical garden with your own hands?

Everyone is constantly striving to decorate their lives, trying to bring a touch of beauty and freshness to everyday life. The original decision of the modern world was vertical gardens - green oases, grown in a limited area of the territory. They can be placed both under the open sky, decorating the facade of the building, and in your favorite room, filling it with a piece of nature.

Vertical Gardens: A New Direction of Art Surround Yourself With Beautiful

What could be better than the green wall into which the gloomy-gray facade of the city building is turned? Or a restaurant, on the walls of which there is a picturesque garden, which causes sincere admiration of visitors? Or revived balcony with graceful natural colors? Or…? Vertical gardens (photo above), where there are a huge number of accommodation options, can be "lodged" not only in a favorite place, but also in their own house, and in such an interesting decision of gardening, there are exclusively advantages:

• Decorative improvement of the aesthetic appearance of the structure in full or in its specific parts;
• Multiple increase in the area of gardening;
• Compactness and the possibility of placing at your fingertips a huge amount of blooming greenery;
• Protection of the premises from external factors: overheating, moisture, street noise, dust, ultraviolet radiation;
• Unlimited design possibilities for planning and forming of natural beauty;
• Improved microclimate and oxygen enrichment;
• Smoothing existing external flaws in the structure;
• Creation of a new ecological space for planted plants.

Green garden on the wall: is it possible?

What is a vertical garden? It is a perpendicularly located structure in which various flowers and plants are planted. It is attached to the walls, thus creating a certain geometric shape and originally dividing the territory into certain zones. This unusual design idea attracts a lot of attention and causes the desire to be in this environment. "Green" walls, undemanding to the technical conditions, can be used both temporarily and permanently.

History of the appearance of vertical gardens

The founder of the artistic and natural innovation is the French designer and botanist Patrick Blank, who revealed a huge number of tropical plants that can grow vertically, in a small amount of soil and even with a lack of lighting. This discovery, which prompted the "master of green solutions" to plant plants on any desired plane, allows creating chic pictures from plants that change seasonally. This invention of the last century, turned into the art of forming vertical flower beds and lawns, is effectively used on the facades of buildings, columns, in interiors and as "living" walls.

The most famous gardens on the walls

The largest vertical garden in the world is Tree House (Singapore), covering an area of 2,289 square meters. Meters on the 24-story building of the condominium company City Developments Limited (CDL) - one of the largest developers in Asia and Singapore. The green walls of the building, in addition to the external presentable appearance, provide the expected energy savings (more than 2.4 million kWh per year) and water (about 30 thousand cubic meters per year). In addition, the entry of harmful substances from the street into residential premises located in the heart of Singapore is reduced.

No less impressive is its green composition the shopping center "Fiordaliso" (Rozzano, Italy), entered in the Guinness Book of Records. The largest vertical garden in the world is located on an area of 1263 square meters. Meter; The vast composition consists of a total of 44,000 plants. This garden was invented and put into practice by the architect Francesco Bollani who spent a year growing plants in the greenhouse and 90 days for their facade planting, reminiscent of an assembly of a giant designer.

Also, its vertical garden, whose height is 24 meters, and a length of 19 meters, boasts Madrid.

Green beauty with your own hands? Easily!

Perhaps, looking at such beauty (simple and at the same time complicated), you will want to try to make a vertical garden with your own hands. Difficulties this process does not represent. Most likely, he will enjoy the introduction to the beautiful. Plants can be planted in plastic or metal boxes, which are then assembled in sections of different heights and widths as a designer. You can use pockets of textiles to plant a vertical garden.

The main element of the whole composition is a design created by the type of picture frame, which can be made from scratch, and you can pick up unnecessary items (wooden pallets, old drawers or unnecessary frames).

The strength of the structure is an important factor for a vertical garden

The framed frame needs to be put in order (so to say, ennobled), to its front side it is possible to fasten nails of a board in order to avoid falling of plants. Then in the design you need to plant flowers, and then fix the finished garden on the wall.

When creating a vertical garden with their own hands, it is worth paying attention to such factors as:

• Method of installing the structure;
• Its approximate weight;
• The level of illumination of the location of the man-made garden.

Systems of vertical gardens can be different, ranging from tissue bags filled with earth to box-sections. Since irrigation of a vertical garden is problematic, most systems are equipped with water tanks or connected to a water pipe for the purpose of automatic drip irrigation, in which water and fertilizers are fed through the hoses installed in the upper part of the structure. Excess liquids accumulate in containers located at the bottom of the structure or walls, and then with a pump are fed upwards for another watering.

Selection of plants for an unusual garden

Vertical landscaping of the garden does not require seeding and long waiting for the first shoots. You can plant seedlings, and it needs to be tight enough to make a continuous carpet.

For a vertical garden succulents are ideal - absolutely unpretentious evergreen plants occupying a small space and not requiring abundant watering. Also your choice can be stopped on lichens, mosses, alpine flowers, ground cover plants, simply created by nature for such purposes. Maximum adapted to fluctuations in temperature and precipitation, they quickly and easily fill empty spaces, giving the green composition a solid original background.

Vertical garden can be built in the room, however, here you should carefully consider the selection of plants, because not all of them easily tolerate the room temperature. The ideal solution will be evergreen ferns or plants with large leaves (monstera, philodendron, ficus pygmy). You can combine plants that are different in height and color, or you can create a monochrome picture, focusing only on some representatives of the flora. To create a green wall, a selection of hardy plants that grow well in the penumbra is required. Sometimes, in order not to depend on daylight, vertical gardens are supplemented with lamps.

Thinness in the care of a vertical garden

Creating a vertical garden with their own hands, plants should be selected with similar requirements for care, so that later do not take care of each separately.

An unusual flowerbed with several species of inhabitants planted in it can be placed in any suitable place (with a great desire - even on the ceiling). The main thing - to choose the right plants with similar conditions of detention.

Care for greenery growing in an unusual garden is similar to the usual care of plants and includes regular cleaning of the system, pruning plants and checking for pests. In spring and autumn, obligatory fertilizing of plants is required, during the flowering period, removal of dried inflorescences and excess sprouts.

Green novelty in every house!

Vertical gardens, attractive, unique, providing a pleasant microclimate, any room filled with green natural colors, making it more saturated and richer. In the summer, man-made miracles keep cool, in winter days - it keeps heat.

Green walls reduce temperature fluctuations, providing higher humidity. They enrich the room with oxygen, filtering the harmful substances contained in it. The greenery of the vertical garden calms the nervous system and acts as a relaxing one, so it is worthwhile to bring an unusually wonderful natural note into your everyday life!