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Jonathan Wild said:
Kevin Munt said:
Michael Toon said:
Listen to that:
first there is a simple product that I will sell later on to help doing that- lots of intrest from retailers.
now:
1. I used in one case in a garden show a garden for children. we made and painted colord stepping stones and near them there where 3 big vertical pipes with holes in different hight. 1.8m 1.4 and 1 metre.
each one covered in different color of flowers.
2. Another place I used it was a small garden with many palm trees, we wanted to add more color abut the soil was full of roots and nothing could grow (we tried) So near a wall I attached a pipe (22cm wide, 2 metre high) that was covered with flowers- customer was very happy- and it did look great.
3. I also worked as a consultant for a famous garden in israel that is used for weddings and parties.(wonderful job). as a feature we build 2 pipes like that but this time into a concrete blocks with white flowers.
It had a n irrigation system inside. It looked great at night.
4. I had customers that bought a house with a small garden- and wanted to grow just food. I had to dig out a beautiful tropical garden. We planted many fruit trees. and I used my 'blooming posts' that i had from the show garden. I visited that garden 8 weeks later- they were so happy with that. it had in it a mixture of veg/herbs and flowers- it looked great but they said it is so attractive to pick and taste the veg as they are just in front of their 5 years old daughter.
Funny, (a day before I left Israel nearly 2 years ago) I heard that someone described how to build something the same on the internet but than he explained that he copied it from the one I did in that 'wedding garden'.
In agriculture there is lots of vertical growing - and it is great for small spaces, green houses veg or flowers.
Ya I agree some will say it is too different but so as hanging baskets.
Jonathan Wild said:
Ofer El said:
If we wish to contiue to expand the amount of planted surfaces, we have little left but roofs and walls.
Now, this kind of planting has rather taxing maintenace requirements, let alone cost and construction specification. Soil, steel, membranes and watering systems do not hold together for too long if left alone. The capital investment is huge if you factor in an acceptable life span.
In its extreme form you can find Mosaiculture projects, where thousands, even millions of tiny plants are planted on huge structures for sculptural effect. The net outcome is a steel-framed building that resembles an animal, a famous landmark or a logo at huge cost, but with a very limited useful life, between 6 months to a year, and with some risks.
Saving water in the UK may have been nonsense a few decades ago, but not necessarily today, even though water was a precious comodity many centuries ago. Equally, Vertical gardens should not be dismissed as nonsense. Changes in our environment will be pushing us in the way of new-old solutions to new-old problems.
The question is: how to do it elegantly and efficiently?
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