Australian Vertical Garden Group
For anyone where space are at reduced, vertical or wall gardens in which entire outdoor or indoor walls could be covered in green are an innovative and eye-catching solution.
Green Roofs Australia president Sidonie Carpenter said vertical gardens were becoming very popular, consistent with a worldwide movement to introduce more greenery to major cities.
"There has been a huge push and interest worldwide in greening urban spaces," Ms Carpenter said.
"The entire world has be much more conscious of green infrastructure and bringing more green space into our high-density areas. People wish to be in touch with something living and vertical gardens are becoming very fashionable."
Ben Cusack, from Melbourne vertical garden company Lushe, said vertical gardens tended to be popular with residents in inner-city suburbs with many of his clients living in South Yarra, Port Melbourne, Parkville and Docklands.
"Residents from these areas generally have hardly any backyard and their outdoor areas often face large brick walls," he said.
"Our clients want a straight garden to soften the wall, supply a lush feel of a large garden and have something that is contemporary.
"The added benefit of a straight garden is that they'll be used for productive purposes and not merely aesthetic purposes. Clients often want a large feature vertical garden and a separate edible wall to develop herbs such as for example parsley and lettuce."
DO IT YOURSELF
Vertical gardens can range between run-of-the-mill planter pots attached with a wall to customised hydroponic gardens covering walls several storeys high comprising a metal lattice frame, which holds small mesh bags full of a growing medium. AVGG
- Wall Garden Melbourne
Costs have generally been high - a custom indoor hydroponic system with lighting could cost up to $2000 per square metre.
Previously year, however, DIY kits have hit the market, dramatically cutting the expense of greening a straight space.
If you're something of a convenient man then your internet also abounds with types of other vertical green thumbs who've rigged up systems using pot plants and wire, house guttering, discarded chest of drawers and even hanging wardrobe shoe racks.
Melbourne-based company Wallgarden sells DIY kits coming in at less than $200.
For this you get 10 planter boxes covering 1.6sq m.
Each modular planter box could be wall-mounted and drain into the one below, also saving on water costs.
Green thumbs can water their garden manually or fit a watering system using parts available from any hardware store.
Wallgarden co-owner Stephen Collis said employing a planter-box system provided a greater growing environment allowing a larger array of plants and vegetables to be grown.
"This technique was made with home gardeners at heart, whereas a lot of other systems can be very complicated, difficult to keep and aimed at more commercial usage," he said.
The business says it has had success growing 80 types of plants up to now including foliage plants such as for example giant lilyturf and flax lily varieties, flowering plants including geranium, lavender and jasmine varieties and vegetables including lettuce, onions and tomatoes.
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