Vertical gardening: living wall as a decoration original

How to spice up the interior with indoor plants - Plant for the walls, paintings and shelves

In the past, none of the sill is not complete without pots of flowers, and it was one of the favorite hobbies, and the opportunity to diversify the environment. Today, the popular vertical gardening, or - a living wall, created from a suitable plant by special devices, or homemade.

Content

• vertical beds
• Homemade vegetable picture
• Choosing plants for the compositions

vertical beds

The walls of the living plant - an excellent remedy for lovers of nature corner in the apartment or house, when the size of window sills do not allow to turn around. And even if the windows are already a dozen pots with pets, one or more verticals in the house will not be superfluous. A living wall - is not only an interesting design course, but also an opportunity to improve the microclimate, as well as get to the table fragrant greens, neperesekshuyu ocean chemical cocoon. Voluminous pots and containers occupy much space, and a small vertical rack with containers will take more "guests", practically does not require living spaces.

Living walls can be both interior design and the street - in the first case, the system is designed only for domestic accommodation, the second module can be spotted on the street or placed directly on the facade building. Indoor living walls are of several kinds:

• Modular.
• Felt.
• Container.

modular fitosteny assembled from several ready-made items that are sold in specialized stores. They represent a frame on which are fixed generally flat containers with substrate, divided into cell planting. Also, the modules are equipped with an automatic watering system, but with all the convenience of this rather expensive fun, even if you buy pigs and planting their own, not to mention the fully twined plants walls. However, precisely because the modules usually formed tableaux, picking flowers or green in color and texture. If there is a rich fantasy obtained virtually paintings, but not painted and assembled.

Vertical gardening with felt accessible on an impermeable substrate, eg, plastic or wood, upholstered film captured pockets of a special fabric - it keeps well substrate, water tight and does not rot. Lower the installed capacity for the collection of excess water. Watering can be automated, such systems - is also not uncommon in the sale, or homemade, drip type. As an option - felt pockets sewn on the base fabric and pull it into a frame, the walls are double-sided and can be used as full screen. The substrate must be strong to withstand the moist soil and filling.

Container living walls - is, in fact, the shelf, mounted with pots or any other containers, but the plants are selected from a large leaf mass to hide the base. An interesting embodiment of the container walls - drainage ducts. Several segments with plugs are fixed to each other, filled with soil and planted with greenery. As well with homemade herbal weight wooden boxes, divided into square cells or transverse containers.

Homemade vegetable picture

Also pictures of modules popular homemade "webs", based on - the wooden frame, the bottom of the plywood and the metal mesh with small mesh as the delimiter. On the bottom frame is stuffed as waterproofing - thick polyethylene film, in the ground for planting added perlite. To hedge against the eruption of the substrate to the proliferation of root seedlings system, on top of the soil in front of the net, it is possible to nail agrotextile and under the seedlings in the cells to make the slot. If the substrate used moss (sphagnum), just enough mesh.

Plants planted on the chosen subject. If this is just an abstraction, made some accents due to bright color or size, and weight of the base web is filled with small leaves. To strengthened the root system, the frame should stand horizontally at least two weeks, after which it can be hung. After hanging watering itself reduced to spraying. Due primary copious irrigation, perlite accumulates large amounts of moisture and subsequently spraying is sufficient to maintain optimal balance.

Which plants prefer

By and large for vertical landscaping fit any compact plant, but the preference is to give not only decorative but also useful properties. For living walls, pictures or shelves in the kitchen - choose greens and herbs, and other facilities - a plant that can purify the air. Florists recommended to plant several varieties.

• Ampelnye - the best option for containers, for example, Hoya, hederacea philodendron, Epipremnum, Spathiphyllum, Chlorophytum.
• Succulents and ground cover - for dry rooms and fitokartin (sedum, stonecrop, a young, dead-nettle, thyme).
• Decorative grapes - for containers and living walls (Amur grape).

Some are planted even special varieties of strawberries, that with proper care not only provides excellent green mass, but also fruits. Regardless of the selected varieties of plants in the living walls or pictures need extra lighting, preferably fluorescent lighting. Often, the lighting system do not only functional but also decorative, it becomes another design element.

Live pictures can be not only of flowers, Interior decoration moss also in vogue. If there is no craving for living plants, it is possible to beat the finish using ceramic tiles or decorative plaster. In the video - garden landscaper, as an example of the flight of creative thought.

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