The City’s giant Walkie Talkie tower will be topped by exotic “floating” roof gardens that will be the highest in Europe.
The developers of the the 580 ft high landmark, due to open in just under a year’s time, are using the landscapers behind the award winning Olympic Park to install more than 2000 sub-tropical plants.
The terraced “hanging gardens of modern Babylon” will be dominated by drought resistant Mediterranean and South African flowers, shrubs and ferns because of the “greenhouse effect” of the domed glass summit of the 38 storey block on Fenchurch Street.
Stephen Richards, a partner at London based garden designers Gillespies, said: ”The gardens will be totally unique in London, the largest and most exciting of their kind. It will like being in an eyrie.
“There will be a series of platforms where there will be seating so you will be able to immerse yourself in plants and colour while still being aware that you are very high up to get that sense of a floating garden.”
Gillespies used the Kent based landscapers Willerby, which last month grabbed two gold medals for show gardens it worked on at the Chelsea Flower Show.
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