Vertical Gardens

By Alicia Newman | February 11, 2019

This year is all about the VERTICAL GARDEN which allows us to bring a little piece of our outdoor spaces indoors; creating life and colour in any room of the home. These little indoor gardens are not only pretty to look at but can also be functional as they oxygenate the air and can also provide us with aromatic scents or herbs for cooking. Vertical gardens are simple to create and can be designed to fit perfectly into your style and size of home.

Traditional

Traditional vertical gardens can be create using garden inspired items such as miniature plant pots, wooden planking, string and crates that can be filled with a variety of indoor plants with plenty of green foliage. Use your crates and planks to create a ladder style formation on a main feature wall or use to create a stacked shape in an alcove or recess area. You can also string some small planks of wood together like a free-falling ladder and cut out small holes in a linear formation across each plank where you can insert your small plant pots. This style of vertical garden works extremely well with herbs, creating a functional focal point within your kitchen interior. You can leave your pots in a plain terracotta finish or paint in a selection of pastel tones for a shabby chic inspired design. You could also paint your pots with a blackboard paint and write on the names of your herbs or plants for added visual detail. For a simple yet effective option then you could select some plain or painted trellis with some indoor vines that can be trailed up a main feature wall or used to highlight specific zoned areas of the room.

Contemporary

Modern vertical gardens combine the latest trends with classic plants and flower to create a visual artwork within your chosen room. Terrariums are a great choice for modern homes as they bring together crisp and minimal glass orbs and cacti and succulents that require very little care and time. These can be hung from invisible wires in a cascade or waterfall formation on a main feature wall or above a bed or seating area for and eye-catching focal point. Vertical garden canvases have also become a popular choice in modern home interior. These designs are made up of a large box frame that is filled with a moist soil-based or moss lining. This can then be used to insert a variety of low maintenance plants in varying tones of green or colour that can be designed into a shape, pattern or picture on a main feature wall.

Key Plants that work well in a Vertical Garden:

  • Pothos (Epipremnum sp.)
  • Lipstick plant (Aeschynanthus radicans) 
  • Sword Fern (Nephrolepis exaltata)
  • Rabbit’s foot fern (Davallia fejeensis)
  • Cretan brake fern (Pteris cretica)
  • Wedding Vine (Stephanotis floribunda)
  • Peace Lily (Spathiphyllum wallisii)
  • Dracaena (Dracaena sp.)
  • Crotons (Codiaeum variegatum pictum)
  • Philodendron (Philodendron sp.

For more ideas on creating a vertical garden in your home interior, take a look at this week’s latest Pinterest board – Pinterest – Vertical Gardens.

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