Because of limited land availability and high land prices have certainly become a difficult obstacle faced by settlers in urban areas. One way to bring green plants growing outside the house is a wall / garden wall.


The presence of certain plants to protect us from ultraviolet rays, heat and dust pollution and dirty air. The effect is clearly more obvious when you put the plants can absorb pollutants. Families become protected, healthier and more comfortable at home. View house can become a unique garden accent wall.

Today, many developed wall garden design. This term also varies. Green façade, green wall, vertical garden, a wall of life and topiade are some terms and developments. Not only in the normal wall, wall sculpture garden can be coated or building functions as a second skin to reduce solar radiation. Plants that are used to form a border of plants and shrubs are arranged in each plantation box / pot vertically.

Preparation can be done on a shelf or rack structure. Shelves can be made from wood, bamboo or metal. materials Choose pots / plantation like a plastic light box. Choose a lightweight planting media and also saves water because it will protect your family from the sun.

Steps to create a garden wall:

1. Determine the dimensions of the walls of plant you want to create. Select the area that the sun a lot / to handle the pollution to optimally protect the family. Rack is still in the soil so that water can excessive watering immediately fell to the ground, to give a density of rocks neatly at the bottom. If not, the plan is to trench the ground. Shelf metal materials can be durable or environmentally friendly bamboo.
2. If the wall is quite high and difficult to watered every day, preparing for the installation of sprinkler pipe / capillary tube or pipe / hose is used to hide.
3. Plan rack size module that will be created. Usually, border plants / 20×20 cm 30×60 cm for standard-sized short shrubs. Select the appropriate plant and pot / planter boxes. Growing media can be selected so as not to burden the shelves lightweight and easy maintenance, such as gel, coconut bark, stems, ferns, seaweed, charcoal and rice husk.
4. Choose pots / boxes made of plastic such as plantation of light. Feel free to experiment with different colors and textures to display a unique pot. Customize your colors with shelves and walls around.
5. In the market started to grow back wall of many outstanding parks that allow plants to grow horizontally, thereby creating a closed wall filled with plants. The selected plants may not distribute / hang so you can make more free.

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