If you live in a small space, an apartment with a balcony or a house with a very small back yard, you have probably thought about these new things called a living wall or vertical garden. They are a wonderful idea, where you grow what you would normally grow in a big garden plot, but it grows vertically up a wall. If you have ever considered doing one of these and put it off because it looked too hard, here is a couple of ways you can do one for less effort and lots of great results.

Whether it is free-standing or part of a wall, a living wall can add so much to any area. First developed by French botanist Patrick Blanc, a true living wall should have stainless steel containers for the plants such as these BrightGreen BGWM8O Living Wall Planter Kit with Frame, Light Oak , geotextiles, an irrigation system, a growing medium and your plants.

 Lucky for you, there are all kinds of information on living walls from the history of them to do it yourself designs and even some books by Patrick Blank himself! You can learn all about how to setup a living wall in these great books. Once you have read up on them, you are probably going to be eager to get started building one yourself.

 

 

The first decision you will need to make is if it will be an outdoor living wall or an inside one. This choice will drive the kinds of plants you will want to include in your living wall. For indoor ones, you may want to choose plants that will remove toxins from the air such azalea, bamboo, English ivy, chrysanthemum, spider plant, aloe vera, and pothos. You will have to keep in mind that if you build this indoors and want to use it to clean the air, you need to circulate the air. A simple box fan placed in a strategic spot can do the trick quite nicely. Soon you will have wall of beautiful flowers and plants in your own home!

 

So no matter if you are looking to make a small hanging garden on your balcony or a huge wall of living art for your home, the concept of a living wall is one that has come to stay. Once you have got yours up you are going to love it and wonder why you didn’t do it sooner.