Living or green walls once the domain of designer installations and pioneering commercial sites are increasingly making their way into residential gardens these gloriously textured plantings make great use of limited space to create these vertical gardens plants are rooted into a structure.
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The longest axis in any garden is the axis that goes up towards the sky.
Plants should be relatively compact less than 50cm or be able to take regular pruning.
Shelves with troughs for planting and easy watering.
If you interlink these drifts you can create a lovely tapestry like effect.
For smaller budgets there are simple grow bag type products for walls or you can plant up one or more small panels that can be added to depending on space and budget.
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Buy single planters or stack units to create a larger vertical garden.
Introduce the plants at as small size as possible ideally as plugs.
Group them in vertical or angled drifts not horizontally as this will prevent the higher plants shading out those below.
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Yet in small gardens this most useful space is often neglected.
Garden designer ann marie powell looks into home living wall kits and provides inspiration on vertical gardening.
Garden walls can serve a range of purposes.
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Climbing plants are then grown against it.
The best living wall plants should be relatively compact less than 50cm or be able to withstand regular pruning.
From retaining walls which hold back earth or water to walls that screen or just ones that make for beautiful outdoor spaces these diy and shoppable garden walls will sit pretty in your yard far into the future.
Shoehorning a tree into a postage stamp sized plot adds interest.
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