After the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, we’ve felt hugely inspired to cultivate our gardens, or at least buy basil pots for our windowsills. Although there’s nothing wrong with pansies and hortensias we couldn’t resist showing you some cool, gardening ideas. It’s garden haute couture if you will. Nothing is more haute than high walls covered in lush plants and flowers, so take a look at our first garden impresario: Woolly Pocket.
We’re all over vertical gardening these days, horizontal gardening just seems too vanilla. With Woolly Pocket’s modular gardening containers you can build a whole wall of gorgeous plants. The beauty with these breathable pockets is that you don’t need a garden, not even an outdoor space – compact garden living is the word. Made from recycled plastic bottles, and handmade in the US, the containers come in different sizes and shapes, depending on your plant needs. It’s such a simple and easy idea, that we can’t but love it.
No one likes the concrete jungle. Grey, sterile and gloomy, there’s no wonder a phenomenon such as Guerilla Gardening has made its mission to spruce up dull, urban spaces. Turn to veteran Patrick Blanc and the moment you have a look at his living walls, you know he should be able to roam free in every city’s concrete corners. Blanc’s vertical garden system has automated watering and fertilisation, is lightweight and can therefore be used on any wall, and also purifies air. Blanc’s has used his le mur de végétal concept on plenty of buildings worldwide. If you had a say, what ugly wall would you cover?
Plants On Walls specialises in gardening design too, and with a motto to ‘make vertical gardening more elegant and simple’ it’s no wonder their pocket panels look so nifty. We’re thinking a strawberry wall, or tomato panel would be a huge hit. Why not set up one in your office? Or create a mini version of the hanging gardens of Babylon in your living room. Plants on Walls’ blog is a great inspiration, so check it out for more green ideas.
GreenScaped Buildings deserves a mention too. With an edible wall built for Mario Batali’s pizzeria Mozza and plenty of green roof designs under their belt, they have a great track record. For aesthetic reasons and with health benefits (it improves pollution), roof gardens should grace most buildings – and GreenScaped Buildings, with 30 years in the business make sure they do their part. David Cameron, take note.
Before you have a go at vertical gardening, how about honing your green fingers? Check out our listers’ gardening courses on Ooh.com and learn how to work a spade today.
Tags: gardening, GreenScaped Buildings, guerilla gardening, Patrick Blanc, Plants on Walls, vertical gardening, Wolly Pocket
