On her back patio where she spends most of her time, Jane displays her favorite exotic species on her hand-watered succulent vertical garden. Succulents thrive in dry conditions.
The Complete Book of Cacti by Terry Hewitt is Jane’s favorite reference book for succulents.
The book describes every variety of succulent and shows the beautiful and unusual flowers they produce. Epiphyllum is one of Jane’s favorites.
Florafelt Pocket Panels hang from their mounting tabs on a 1/2″ pipe, allowing the vertical garden to float.
Just steps from her kitchen, Jane’s exotic garden adds a cheerful dash to her favorite spot.
This Florafelt vertical aquaponics lettuce wall offers an educational experience for a Sonoma, California family with three young children. Even better, mom and dad harvest the best organic salads in their neighborhood!
Florafelt Pockets for Perez Art Museum Miami by Brightview Landscape Miami.
The Perez Art Museum (PAMM) in Miami needed a solution for dripping and maintenance issues at their famous living columns created by Patric Blanc, and Brightview Landscaping Miami turned to Florafelt Pockets.
Florafelt Pockets for Perez Art Museum Miami by Brightview Landscape Miami.
With only the first column planted, the artistic vision was instantly revitalized. Because changing plants is as easy as slipping them out of their pockets, the column will be monitored and adjusted to create a landscape design for all the rest. One glance reveals the future beauty.
Florafelt Pockets for Perez Art Museum Miami by Brightview Landscape Miami.
Florafelt Recirc 33-Pocket Units planted with Sansevieria with LED lighting.
Sansevieria is often called the Bedroom Plant. It’s one of the few plants that are active at night, converting CO2 to oxygen. This vertical garden was created with two Florafelt Recirc-33, for a total of 66 plants. To allow for better drainage and help prevent overwatering in the interior location, the soil was enriched with bark inside each root wrapper. Since the room has little light, high power LED spot bulbs nourish the wall in daytime hours, and pumps run for 30 minutes per day. The wall started as small plants that filled in over the past year without fertilizer, and they’re still growing. Look closely and you’ll see maidenhair ferns that joined the wall on their own.
By a sunny, inside window or on your patio, you and your kids can explore a whole new way to garden. Pick out the coolest plants, wrap them up and put them in the pockets. Bundle an exciting bunch in the same pocket and throw in some seeds. You can even use cuttings or other plants in the yard. Try anything and have fun.
The Florafelt Compact Kit is a fun and easy way to learn about plants.
Root Wraps Make it Easy
Wrap each plant neatly and slip into the soft felt pockets. Kids love to learn about plants and watch the roots grow into the felt. It’s a hands-on way to understand gardening, and glimpse the future of growing food. With a little practice, your family will become plant wall masters.
Pick your favorite plants, wrap the roots, then slip them into the pockets.
Plants Love Automatic Watering
Your Florafelt vertical garden waters automatically with a pump and timer. Just top off the tank every now and then, and the pump waters your vertical garden from the top. The excess drains into the tank and recirculates for sustainable gardening. Custom loose fibers let the roots breathe for easy growth, and it’s fun to watch the roots dig into the felt. A timer activates the pump each day for 30 minutes, so you’ll never forget to water. Plants love it, too.
Plant walls are a great way for kids to learn about the future of gardening.
A Fun Family Project
A happy plant bursts with beautiful colors, and your family will be rewarded with a vibrant, flowering display. Any plant can grow in Florafelt Pockets, so try something new. Use different combinations and change it up when you learn what thrives in your lighting and environment. At the end of season, remove the plants, shake out the wraps and store for next year. It’s a fun family project.
Hanging tabs let you mount Florafelt Pocket Panels anywhere.
Simply Hang and Grow
The Florafelt Compact Vertical Garden Kit is affordable and fun and can be used over and over. Unfold the panel and hang from the included mounting hooks. Fill the tank with water then plug in the timer. Use the provided felt squares to wrap your plants, stretch open the pockets and insert into your plants. Try your favorite plants and even start from seeds. It’s an easy way to learn about vertical gardening.
A wall of plants is more than a beautiful home feature. It’s an entire community of living things. Together they have a life of their own and create a distinct personality. The leaves grow and move every day, creating a subtle but distinct change. It’a living ecosystem that’s complex and rich, and that’s why they draw our attention.
The deep green of the living wall with burlwood table and lighting created with seed pods enhance the organic feel to this space.
Getting to Know Your Vertical Garden
Touching your plants lets you know your living wall better. You can feel the raw power of life in each leaf. Interacting with plants reminds of the miracle of living things. Getting to know your living wall will also make the plants healthier and happier. For example, wiping leaves removes dust so they can breath easier. The surface of leaves absorb carbon dioxide from our breath and converts it to oxygen, which helps us breathe easier too.
Landscape Designer Lindsey Graves of Living Green Design provides extra love and care to his living wall creations.
Plants Give Back
Plants bring huge joy. We love potted plants in our homes and offices, but it’s magnified with an entire wall. We spend most of our time indoors, so a vertical garden is a reminder of how important nature is for our well-being. It feels like an open window and lets us experience nature every day.
Philodendron Congo Green loves bright light, and pairs nicely with Philodendron Xanadu Neon to provide striking color contrast.
Inspiring Green Design
This living wall is designed by the architect and owners of this Noe Valley San Francisco home. With their construction team, they created a waterproof alcove with floor drains. An inset plywood surface was waterproofed with rubber pond liner, and Florafelt Pocket Panels were mounted using deck screws. Irrigation tubing was added at the top, and water slowly drips to each plant. Full-spectrum LED lighting provides perfect light levels. A mix of philodendrons and others are were added to create dramatic green sweeps with subtle textures. Over the years, the plants were rearranged, and new species introduced. The Florafelt Pockets and Wraps system makes it easy to sculpt this well-loved living wall.
Like a window into a forest, this living wall melts into the design of this architectural home.
Florafelt Pockets Make it Easy
Affordable and elegantly designed synthetic felt pockets are mounted easily to walls. Once irrigation and drainage is in place they are quickly planted to provide you with an instant living experience.
Florafelt Pockets Living Wall for Angie’s Garden Living Wall at Cleveland Clinic.
A Healing Vertical Garden
When a previous vertical garden system proved too difficult to maintain, Horticulture Therapist Alison McKim turned to the Florafelt Pockets system for a family healing vertical garden at Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio.
Florafelt Pockets Living Wall for Angie’s Garden Living Wall at Cleveland Clinic.
An Interactive Healing Experience
Florafelt Pockets allow Alison to experiment with colors, textures and patterns, helping to lift the spirits of both patients and caregivers. The pocket system provides countless seasonal opportunities to enliven this crucial, enchanted garden refuge in the heart of the city.
Florafelt Pockets Living Wall for Angie’s Garden Living Wall at Cleveland Clinic
Video: Angie’s Garden Living Wall at Cleveland Clinic
Alison McKim describes her delight in using Florafelt Pockets to create a vertical garden that provides an interactive healing experience for hospital visitors.
Christine Johnston designed and installed this lush botanical masterpiece at her Miami home. Inspired by Jeff Allis of Truvine Design, Christine used a Florafelt 24-Pocket Vertical Garden Planter and artfully filled it with an amazing tropical medley of ferns, begonias, ginger, anthuriums, bromeliads, heather, irises, aralias, ficus, coreopsis, jade, wax lily, bougainvillea, syngonium, medinilla, and orchids.
Florafelt Living Wall by Emma Lam of A Small Green Space, Jersey City. (photo meganmaloy.com)
This colorful accent living wall for an intimate urban patio is crafted by Emma Lam of A Small Green Space, a fun urban garden design/build firm based in Jersey City.
Florafelt Living Wall by Emma Lam of A Small Green Space, Jersey City. (photo meganmaloy.com)
Adjacent to the dining area, this small vertical garden (5′ x 6′) uses a beautiful mix of foliage to visually soften the neighbor’s wall and define the lounge and fire pit area.
Florafelt Living Wall by Emma Lam of A Small Green Space, Jersey City. (photo meganmaloy.com)
Florafelt Living Wall by Architect Marika-Shiroi Clark for Hingetown neighborhood in Cleveland.
Hingetown is coming to life with Cleveland’s largest living wall taking center stage. Architect Marika Shiroi-Clark envisioned this neighborhood’s transformation by developing core buildings to build vibrant public spaces to the once-desolate neighborhood.
The vertical garden creates an iconic destination that softens the once industrial area.
Marika made the green wall experience using Florafelt Vertical Garden Planters with the help from public watershed incentives and community volunteers. The Florafelt system is easy and affordable enough for everyone to get involved. The ongoing love and care the wall receives makes it the beauty it is today.
