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Vertical dream living or perhaps a nightmare?

Mock Turtle

Mock Turtle

Oh my, did I say that!
Premium Member
39 Insanely Cool Vertical Gardens
BBC World Service - CrowdScience, Do green spaces make us healthier?, Could vertical forests improve our cities and health?

I have trouble with any horizontal gardening let alone having to trim some of these designs (although no doubt my climbing experience would aid me over others without such experience), but are these designs really providing answers to our never-ending tendency for concreting over nature, even if they often do look very attractive and might provide much more pleasant living conditions?

Are most professionally maintained anyway so not a problem for the inhabitants?
 
PureX

PureX

Veteran Member
Mock Turtle said:
39 Insanely Cool Vertical Gardens
BBC World Service - CrowdScience, Do green spaces make us healthier?, Could vertical forests improve our cities and health?

I have trouble with any horizontal gardening let alone having to trim some of these designs (although no doubt my climbing experience would aid me over others without such experience), but are these designs really providing answers to our never-ending tendency for concreting over nature, even if they often do look very attractive and might provide much more pleasant living conditions?

Are most professionally maintained anyway so not a problem for the inhabitants?
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These are what rich people do to be "environmentally conscious" without actually having to do anything but spend some money on some trendy extravagance.
 
Mock Turtle

Mock Turtle

Oh my, did I say that!
Premium Member
PureX said:
These are what rich people do to be "environmentally conscious" without actually having to do anything but spend some money on some trendy extravagance.
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Looks a bit like that. I think if it began to be more popular, and finances allowed, the world would look much like the aftermath of war or a similar catastrophe - and where nature just took back possession of the Earth - which might be ironic seeing as we are doing the opposite.
 
ChristineM

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
We have a small courtyard overlooked by a 1st floor veranda. We have made the courtyard a 3D space with plants bushes and a small apple tree filling the space at ground level, where possible growing up walls. On the veranda is 2 grape vines and a fig tree overhanging the courtyard. Then we have ivy that almost covers an outbuilding just leaving the entry door clear.

Our best idea was the strawberry trees. An 8 inch diameter, 5 ft long pipe with 2 1/2 inch holes cut 9 inches apart scattered up one half of the pipe. One end sealed (with a small drain hole) filled with compost and strawberries planted in the holes. The whole thing is hung from a wall. (Bit more tricky with an irrigation system to get water to every plant).

We have 2 of these and for the last 2 years we have fed a family of 5 with fresh strawberries every week from April to October.

All done with our own not so green fingers.

The local gardening club got to hear about it, they invaded en mass about 4 months ago. The concussion was that we have an oasis with unique strawberry plantation.
 
Mock Turtle

Mock Turtle

Oh my, did I say that!
Premium Member
ChristineM said:
We have a small courtyard overlooked by a 1st floor veranda. We have made the courtyard a 3D space with plants bushes and a small apple tree filling the space at ground level, where possible growing up walls. On the veranda is 2 grape vines and a fig tree overhanging the courtyard. Then we have ivy that almost covers an outbuilding just leaving the entry door clear.

Our best idea was the strawberry trees. An 8 inch diameter, 5 ft long pipe with 2 1/2 inch holes cut 9 inches apart scattered up one half of the pipe. One end sealed (with a small drain hole) filled with compost and strawberries planted in the holes. The whole thing is hung from a wall. (Bit more tricky with an irrigation system to get water to every plant).

We have 2 of these and for the last 2 years we have fed a family of 5 with fresh strawberries every week from April to October.

All done with our own not so green fingers.

The local gardening club got to hear about it, they invaded en mass about 4 months ago. The concussion was that we have an oasis with unique strawberry plantation.
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Sounds exquisite, and I'd hardly condemn any others who also have such an affinity for nature. My ivy just gets my neighbour on at me to trim it back so it doesn't intrude into his garage. :D

As mentioned in one of the links, some or perhaps most of these do aid all the wildlife in their attempts to thrive despite our attempts to restrict them. :oops:
 
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