Vertical Plant Wall

[Matt1997]

I have a wall in my apartment roughly 16ft long. Looking to make an indoor vertical garden to cover all of it. My plan is to create a lower plant bed out of 2x8s. The bed will be roughly 16’x2’x8” tall. On the back side of the bed, a 2x6 construction will go up almost to the ceiling flat against the wall. The 2x6’s will be spaced roughly 1 m apart allowing pocket style planters to fill the area between by securing them to the wood. At the top of the 2x6 structure I will have a perpendicular 2x6 protruding outwards to Mount some lights. Any thoughts on the project? What kind of lights should I aim to use? Plant suggestions? Looking to do something like what is pictured

 

[Copperkills]

Well any typical plant wall indoors are usually made up of mosses, ferns and ivy, which some don’t really need much lighting, like the stag horn fern, but need to stay constantly moist. It’s a tough project, good luck I’ve tried it on a small scale and wasn’t successful. Now I have cacti and air plants lol

 

[Matt1997]

Why was yours unsuccessful?

 

[Matt1997]

My plan was ferns, English ivy, pothos, spider plant for most of the wall.

 

[SaltyScott]

How's this coming along? I think pothos and philodendron are good choices as they can grow anywhere. Maybe buy a mistking system to water the plants at regular intervals. Also if you like, near the lights you could attach bromeliads. If given enough light, they can get some beautiful coloring to accent all the green. They are a staple in poison dart frog vivariums.

 

[Matt1997]

It’s going well. I will be making a spray bar at the top to water the plants. So far I’m only collecting plants. Waiting on the last vertical planter to come.

 

[Matt1997]

Here’s what I have so far

 

[Shooter000]

German ivy is a great east grower aswell, and can tolerate barely any light

 

[Matt1997]

I have 3 different kinds of ivy, pothos, 2 variation of spider plants and asparagus

 

[SaltyScott]

Nice. What kind of lighting did you decide on?

 

[Matt1997]

Daylight spectrum flood lights and sunlight

 

[Matt1997]

I start building the wall tomorrow

 

[TORX]

Trying my hardest to avoid Trump quotes haha

 

[Matt1997]

Update on the project.

 

[Matt1997]

It’s been a while since I’ve last updated this. Here it is currently.

 

[MrHermit85]

Wow it has grown in wonderfully

 

[Shooter000]

Looking really really good..

 

[SaltyScott]

Wow, looking great!

 

[wtac]

Looks good. I did collaborative work with Wolfgang of Genetron Systems that does "Living Walls". Back in that day when Club Monaco had their HO in Bloor/Avenue Rd (?) they had a 2 storey and 50-ish foot long living wall in their atrium/lunch/seating area. Not alot of his large works exist today as businesses from the 90's era have closed down.

UofT tried to copy his work (forget location on campus) but just looks terrible.