Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Patric Blanc - State Of The Art Wall Garden

NY Times

This man does a good job. He uses low light perennial plants in hydroponic like way. He plants interior walls using a hard waterproof back, a soaking medium and and grid to hold the roots in place. The units last years but I'm not sure they are portable. Take a look.



ONE April afternoon in a rented bungalow in this small city on the outskirts of Paris, a Kelly green Madagascar lizard slithered across a plant-covered wall. In the next room, a blue-green Malaysian frog balanced on a Thai pandanus branch, still as a stone. Birds careered from room to room — in this house, the doors to the outside are closed to keep them in — dodging human heads as they went, and pausing only briefly to perch in the rhododendron leaves growing up the wall above the aquarium.


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