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Are you one of those who see your garden wall and find thousands of ideas to fill it with plants? Or maybe you ran out of space in the garden to place more plants and you just can’t stop? How about we help you design wall gardens?
Next, we will give you the steps to follow and some ideas for designing wall gardens in a simple, ecological and inexpensive way. Shall we start?
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Steps to Design Wall Gardens
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Wall gardens are one of the trendiest ways to decorate. In fact, they are not only used outdoors, but you can have them indoors as well. Obviously you have to give them other care, and surely choose other types of plants, but in general it will not be too complicated.
However, designing this type of garden is not easy. Not hard. If you keep some important points in mind, you will be able to do it easily. Shall we tell you what they are?
Take into account the available space
Vertical gardens must have a surface to be able to look. Whether you use bricks and create a sort of shelf; or you want to buy a garden bag to put plants in your pockets, in any case you need a wall to support it.
And they are not always available. Therefore, you need to make sure that the space you have is indeed the space that this wall garden will occupy. Otherwise, it won’t look good and you may not even be able to use it.
Pay attention to the location
Location is another of the most important points when designing wall gardens, and that is because certain plants may or may not be there. Keep in mind that where you have the available space may not be where you can place plants. Maybe because there is no sun, because it is very windy, because there is too much sun, because it is a transit zone…
There are many factors and location is one of the most important, not only for plants, but also decoratively.
prepare the wall
What is the condition of the wall? Is it correct or on the contrary is it deteriorated? When you are going to put a vertical garden on a wall, you need to make sure that the wall is correct. That means:
This will support the weight of the garden and plants well.
That it is not dirty or contains fungi or bacteria that can affect plant health.
Checking this before you do anything will prevent you from having an accident, either while you are riding or after you have done so.
Pay attention to watering
If you have a wall garden, irrigation should be done in this way (You will not be able to remove each plant, water it and put it back).
This implies that water will fall on the wall and moisture or structural problems may occur if it has not been treated before.
Consider plants and their care
Every plant is different, and while many are cared for in the same way, others have quirks that, if ignored, can end their lives.
Therefore, when designing wall gardens, you must consider the types of plants you want to put in this garden to know whether they are the most suitable or not.
Our recommendation is that you try to group plants based on care. For example, if you have plants that require a lot of sun, others shade, others a lot of water and others little, put them in groups and place them like this in the vertical garden in order to that when caring for them, you can establish different guidelines for each of these plants. Let’s say one row of these plants is watered twice a week, the second row once a week, and the third four times a week.
Also, an outdoor wall garden is not the same as an indoor garden.
garden wall type
Choosing which wall garden to put up might seem easy, but sometimes it’s not. And it’s not because sometimes it’s hard to choose just one, or because you don’t like any of them.
The design or style of these wall gardens, when designed, can vary and suit what you are looking for, but sometimes it is much more expensive and not for all pockets.
But how about leaving yourself with some wall garden ideas?
Ecological Wall Gardens
More than ecological, taking advantage of those elements that we have at home and that we are no longer going to use. If they can be recycled, it will help the environment.
An example? Plastic bottles, even containers, which once removed are thrown away. Instead of making it (or recycling it), you can give it a second life, for example by serving as pots, or planters to hang on the wall later, perhaps creating a shape or a pattern that makes it curious.
And who says bottles or containers also says glass jars, yoghurt pots… In fact, anything that allows you to plant and maintain this plant will be fine.
Hanging gardens
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In this case, with the tillandsias (you already know that they are plants that do not need soil and live on air), you could create a kind of curtain in which these plants would be fixed to give the impression of a cascade of plants.
And before you ask us, know that yes, these plants flourish with luck (they are a bit tricky to make). If they do, you’ll see the show is one of the best.)
Pallet gardens
Another option, which is usually less expensive, is to design wall gardens with pallets. These can be hung or supported on the wall so as to become shelves. In addition, you can paint them in the colors you like the most and treat them so that they can withstand the weather.
In fact, many can be transformed into planters, like a vegetable garden, and combined with decorative plants they can look very beautiful.
As you can see, designing wall gardens is not difficult, just think about how you could improve your garden to redesign it using what you have or with very little investment. Can you think of anything else?