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Post by bjd on Mar 5, 2012 19:43:13 GMT
Ooops -- I had forgotten that there was already a living wall thread. Thanks for moving the post, Bixa.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 27, 2012 17:55:20 GMT
Does everyone already know about this? I knew that buttermilk or yogurt could be painted on terracotta pots to stimulate the growth of moss, but this technique greatly expands on that. I'd say the crucial first step would be to obtain an extra blender just for this purpose. How to Make Moss Graffiti <-- click[/size] You can also make this in a bucket, using a hand mixer of some sort. Whether or not you wanted to spell anything out, this would be great to apply to a fence or stacked stones behind inground or staged potted shade plants. A beery good way to make a slurry for coating pots ~
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2012 18:00:15 GMT
Oh, I want to make moss graffiti!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2012 11:45:55 GMT
OH HOW COOL!!!! I AM ON IT!!!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 6, 2013 0:32:35 GMT
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Post by lugg on Jun 6, 2013 6:32:19 GMT
Cheers Bixa ;D
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2013 18:13:57 GMT
I finally took a photo of the 'Aboukir' wall in Paris the other day. It is the other major vegetal wall besides the one at the Musée du Quai Branly.
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Post by questa on Sept 19, 2013 23:21:16 GMT
I don't know if this counts. It is the Australian Federal Parliament building in Canberra. The bulk of the building is set under the Capitol Hill which is covered with grass and shrubs. The roof and walls are all greenery in a smooth slope. I did not take this photo but it is one from the Oz Government gallery
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Post by mez on Sept 20, 2013 0:07:25 GMT
There's also the living wall at the Reubens at the Palace Hotel in London. I had it on my to-see list and somehow forgot all about it once there. See www.rubenshotel.com/about-us/the-living-wall for more photos and info.
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Post by mez on Sept 20, 2013 0:34:12 GMT
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Post by lugg on Sept 21, 2013 10:05:31 GMT
I would love to see that wall K2 - I guess it is quite a good thing that it is on a pedestrian street as many people must walk along looking up and admiring it rather than paying attention Nice photos ladies. A living pic rather than a wall , it is the first one that I have seen, At Chelsea Flower Show Here are a couple of living roofs - the first, a well tended exhibit at Chelsea flower show The less manicured roof of a storage shed in a local forest.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2013 10:15:11 GMT
The POPB (Palais Omnisports Paris Bercy), the most recent sports arena built in Paris in 1984 also has grass walls. It can hold 18,000 people.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2013 14:21:53 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2013 18:35:28 GMT
Here is another new addition in Paris, bordering the Parc Martin Luther King.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 30, 2013 23:02:51 GMT
Really charming. The shagginess makes it quite lovable, doesn't it?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2013 14:21:56 GMT
These are fantastic!!!! I have always wanted to plant a cultivar of Japanese Iris that will proliferate on a roof. I have a really old wooden shed that they would do beautifully on. I need to see if the nursery that listed them still exists as it was many, many years ago when I used to get a gazillion plant/seed catalogs. I think it was Jackson Perkins but I am not positive.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2014 18:40:58 GMT
The new mayor of Paris has allocated 5% of the city budget to specific projects for which the residents have voted. The voting (mostly by internet but also in person or by postal mail) ended on October 1st, and the top choice of Parisians was living walls. The city will now create 20 new vegetal walls in the city over the next three years, as well as other projects that were selected. The #2 choice was school gardens to teach children where their food comes from and how it is grown. Quite a few schools already had gardens (usually on the roof in Paris), but now many more will be created. #3 was to reclaim abandoned areas for something useful. The abandoned areas in question are places like freeway underpasses and other ugly cul-de-sacs around the city.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2014 11:28:00 GMT
These are all so cool!!!!
I love everything about them.
I recently heard about a garden in Seattle, it may be more of a rooftop garden. It is supposed to be absolutely spectacular. It is "green" ecologically in every respect, from it's solar aspects to the recycling of water from the building itself.
I wish I could recall where I heard about it...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2014 6:25:50 GMT
I took a new photo of the living wall I posted in reply #36 to see if there was any visible evolution a year later. It is quite a bit shaggier now.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2017 12:39:48 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 3, 2022 19:41:19 GMT
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