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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 17, 2009 16:41:56 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2009 17:38:21 GMT
No longer stumped about my Mardi Gras outfit, I'm on it. Mask with banana leaves and I'm struttin'! Seriously,those shots of the overpass and other expanses incredible.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2009 18:47:46 GMT
Yes, the Quai Branly Museum in Paris (the 2nd photo) is the most famous vegetal wall in Paris. One of my favorites, though, is the wall of the central covered market in Avignon. The upper floors are a parking lot, which makes the vegetation all that much more important as a healthy barrier.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2009 13:32:03 GMT
Did the snow and gales there cause any visible damage to these I wonder? I noted in his interview (splendid) and some of the closeups some tropicals or at least semi tropicals that I cannot see holding up. I was surprised at his use of them along with some of the other more appropriate pairings.
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Post by welle on Mar 24, 2009 8:21:56 GMT
Wow, I love those living walls.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 24, 2009 8:30:34 GMT
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Post by spindrift on Mar 24, 2009 9:17:55 GMT
I've never seen a living wall. It's a superb idea and wouldn't need much watering. Succulents can live on very little water.
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Post by Jazz on Mar 24, 2009 9:55:32 GMT
*ahem*...thanks to Bixa for returning Patrick Blanc's beautiful site in #5, Inventor. A few more photos, Pershing Hall, Paris Caixa, Madrid Pont-Juvenal, France Paris and, the famous runway 'dress', Here are two interviews with Patrick Blanc, and,
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2009 10:02:08 GMT
Thank You,I love these photos and derived much inspiration from them.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 24, 2009 16:52:28 GMT
Thanks, Jazz This link is from a manufacture of the living wall stands, and has a cut-away view of the stand interior. I'd love to see some uses of the indoor living walls in normal-sized regular houses.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2010 11:42:26 GMT
This is a parking garage in Miami Beach. I just loved!
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Post by imec on Jan 27, 2010 20:01:34 GMT
Wow! fantastic!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2010 20:50:41 GMT
I noticed a living wall over the weekend that I hadn't seen yet, as part of the Gare du Nord complex. It is basically part of the heating plant chimney attached to a railway workers' residence that was recently built there. Some of the plants were brown, so I was wondering if they were simply dormant at this time of year or it is was part of the teething pains of such an installation.
Things often go wrong on living walls at the beginning, and they need to be tweaked to get them perfect.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2010 11:24:36 GMT
I noticed a living wall over the weekend that I hadn't seen yet, as part of the Gare du Nord complex. It is basically part of the heating plant chimney attached to a railway workers' residence that was recently built there. Some of the plants were brown, so I was wondering if they were simply dormant at this time of year or it is was part of the teething pains of such an installation. Things often go wrong on living walls at the beginning, and they need to be tweaked to get them perfect. I couldn't help but notice the photos at the beginning in this thread of the area of which you speak K. and how many of the plants were of what I believe to be not very cold tolerant. So,I guess,the designers and maintenance people whom I would hope did their homework on this,are perhaps looking toward a new installation(job security as it is known in the trade). Although,as you say,because they are new,the wrong choice was made and indeed need tweaking. There are many new designers also,who don't really know what they are doing initially and the owners of the building may have hired some novices.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2010 11:45:15 GMT
There are also stupid glitches like one of the watering pipes getting clogged -- that is not immediately noticeable, since they don't get a cherry-picker to go up and investigate how everything is going every day.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 28, 2010 16:15:13 GMT
Boy, do I love everything about that wall! Besides the cloaking & softening effect, it feels as though there is a hill behind the building -- a nice psychological touch in a flat area.
There's probably a lot that can go wrong between the designing and the execution of a wall. Just as in the landscaping for an apartment complex, say, the money is put into a landscape architect who carefully selects plants appropriate for the climate and terrain. After that, the apartment owners might decide to economize & contract with an indifferent nursery which sends out untrained labor to "install" the planting. For the final insult, thug-boys with weed whackers are hired to "maintain" the landscape. As living walls become more popular, there will probably be more new &/or crass practitioners jumping on the bandwagon, as Casimira points out above.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2010 1:46:25 GMT
From the Miami Beach Botanical Garden (part of their fabulous Bromeliad collection(with some orchids stuck in there as well) displayed in the mode of a living wall,not quite what the OP introduced,but,close enough I think to qualify for).
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 26, 2010 4:21:49 GMT
Oh, YES! The bromeliads & ferns shown are perfect, as that mimics their natural growth habit. The bark wall is particularly nice, as there is no reason to have to cover it completely.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2010 5:55:44 GMT
In the garden stores, I am seeing more and more devices that allow people to mimic living walls without actually having to dig into their walls -- metal structures with a multitude of little tilted pots in which to plant what people think is appropriate. This actually would not be difficult to improvise without buying a sophisticated setup. The only thing to worry about is accessibility for watering and other maintenance.
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Post by lola on Jun 26, 2010 16:17:17 GMT
Amazing. Great concept for use of space, city cooling, plus artistic imagination.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2010 22:53:27 GMT
In the garden stores, I am seeing more and more devices that allow people to mimic living walls without actually having to dig into their walls -- metal structures with a multitude of little tilted pots in which to plant what people think is appropriate. This actually would not be difficult to improvise without buying a sophisticated setup. The only thing to worry about is accessibility for watering and other maintenance. Yes,it's real easy to improvise with a variety of things from wire coat hangers,cheap fox/chicken coop wire fencing,sphaghum moss etc.Experimentation is the name of the game.The watering can be done fairly simply as well,you just have to be a little creative.Once the roots take hold you're pretty home free. The garden design merchandising people are simply cashing in on a new concept,which isn't really a new concept at all. It just happens to be in vogue again. My mentor who was 89 years old when I started with her,had been doing this with bromeliads,tillandsias and such for many, many years. She was merely emulating/recreating what she had seen in nature on all her travels around the world. Now,the original looking stuff in the OP, on the highway overpasses,big store fronts/walls is unique for sure.
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Post by myrt on Oct 31, 2010 20:35:21 GMT
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Post by mich64 on Oct 31, 2010 22:54:35 GMT
Thank you Myrt, I enjoyed visiting this thread. Beautiful walls indeed. Each year we plant morning glories to creep up the posts for our upper deck. We have mesh around the posts and train the vines upwards. By the fall, we have these wonderful bushy vines with broad green leaves and beautiful blue, purple and pink flowers. Their are 4 posts that are 10 feet tall full of the foliage and blooms.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 1, 2010 3:42:10 GMT
Please revive anything that interests you! I was pleased to see this thread again, as I'd forgotten how much great stuff is in it. And I LOVE the link you posted, Myrt. The mossy walls make everything look enchanted, in the fairytale sense. The people walking through them seem to feel that.
Mich, you have given me some inspiration for the rather uninspired front of my house ~~ thanks!
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Post by myrt on Nov 2, 2010 21:37:54 GMT
Mmm I love the pictures in Casimira's post - they are stunning plants........ And Mich64's Morning Glory curtains sound really beautiful! It's tricky growing Morning Glory in the UK sometimes - but they are such fabulous plants I always try - sometimes I get loads of flowers, other year none at all.... For another, much more formal, living wall using moss you might like to look at these: www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/flower_shows/chelsea_2007/smallgardens_clouds.shtmlNot everyone's cup of tea perhaps but so carefully constructed and delicately done.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 3, 2010 0:29:47 GMT
Ohhh, lovely! I would make it a bit less romantic, but overall it's a wonderful idea and execution.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 20, 2011 2:27:50 GMT
I'm very interested in exploring the possibilities of vertical planting with succulents. But one thing that is frustrating when reading about this type of planting is that so much of it seems to need special equipment -- equipment maybe not available to us, or out of our price range. So, even though I found this interesting, it was more of the same in terms of special design, etc. However .............. scrolling down brought me to complete directions for making a low tech frame from easily available materials, plus directions on how to plant it. Follow the link to learn more.
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Post by bjd on Mar 5, 2012 14:49:23 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 5, 2012 17:40:47 GMT
What a happy guy!
I was most fascinated by his sketches for the large public works. You can imagine how much experimentation & trial & error has gone into his expertise since his first days of trying to recreate a rain forest feeling.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2012 17:50:31 GMT
Using old clothes for planting is an interesting idea.
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