Vertical Gardening
December 16, 2010
Living Wall installation at Burke and North 38th Street, Seattle
One of my blog readers invited me to check out the “Living Wall” in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood on North 38th Street near the corner of Burke Avenue. It’s an intriguing garden space! Plants are growing out of little pockets in a heavy felt wall. The structure reminded me of those fabric pocketed shoe racks that hang from closet doors.
The Living Wall in Wallingford has been recently installed by Solterra Systems, so the plants are still small. I am already looking forward to returning periodically throughout the coming year to see how the plants spread and fill up the vertical space.
Plants grow in a thick, felted quilt of pockets
Plants in pockets
Late-season plantings
Window cut-out in the Living Wall
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December 16, 2010 at 10:06 am
What fun! Last summer I saw a pair of living walls at the U.S. Botanic Garden in D.C., but I couldn’t find them on the website – probably because they were inside a pair of movable wooden arches that must have been a temporary exhibit.
http://www.usbg.gov/index.cfm
By far the best planned living wall (as opposed to those occurring in nature like the mosses and lichens covering the trees in the Olympic Rainforest and the ferns on the walls of Angkor Wat) is the one at Quai Branly in Paris. It really is an amazing sight!
http://inhabitat.com/vertical-gardens-by-patrick-blanc/
December 16, 2010 at 10:11 am
The most amazing designed living wall I’ve seen is in Paris at Quai Branly:
http://inhabitat.com/vertical-gardens-by-patrick-blanc/
December 16, 2010 at 11:29 am
Oh, I like that. What a great idea. It has so many little pockets in it.
Wishing you and yours a Wonderful Christmas.
December 17, 2010 at 7:46 pm
I’m a vertical gardener too. My weeds grow very tall. ha!
December 17, 2018 at 6:02 am
oo is it still there now? any images?
December 17, 2018 at 9:11 am
I don’t know if the wall is still there!