Outdoor green walls are vertical gardens, plants growing on a vertical surface. A green wall can be purely decorative in your garden. It also serves a bigger purpose in urban areas, cooling and filtering the air and providing respite from the city setting in a small space. It’s easier than you think to create your own backyard vertical garden. The Origin of the Outdoor Vertical Garden Outdoor living walls are fairly common today, but the first modern incarnation didn’t appear until the 1930s. Stanley Hart White, a University of Illinois professor of landscape architecture invented and patented what he called botanical bricks used to create vertical gardens. The idea of a vertical garden is popular today because of climate change. A green wall allows people to grow more carbon-storing, air-filtering plants in smaller, urban spaces. Green walls even lower temperatures amid the heat islands of cities. Important Considerations for an […]
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