Vertical Garden

What system are you considering: soil, hydroponic or climbing?

the irrigation system employed depends on the plant growing media being used (i.e. factors like water retention, etc)
i have some images of a recent vertical and roof garden installed on my folio (on this site)
i used a system from a company called fytogreen
regards
james

drip line 1/2′ 12”c/c drippers is working good
3 feets seperate dripline in staggered rows
use native plants of your area.
our system (hydro-Felt) is a capilarity hydroponic system, similar in look to PB system. + tricky stuff in it !
if you need anything else contact me.
material, etc….

Éric Bond

I am sure the older native trailing or climbing roses, which you can let grow down, will do well and you can block varieties by colour leaving the nice smells for the base where the people are. For water, a half horsepower pump works wonders and any plumbing company will tell you what power you need for the height you have, volume you want and introductory head. That is to say, if you are using a high pressure from the mains, or none from an underground rain or “grey” water tank. You can also pump water between tanks below ground and on the top of the project, which can then water the wall by gravity. The top tanks should autmatically fill by a cistern system and watering should be on a time switch before dawn, say 3am. In the hottest weather there may be a second watering subject to advices received and experience. That said, rose experts may suggest watering to saturation every few days, not every day. The same with other med. plants, even with a drought period of a week every now and again. If this is a big and not a private project I suggest you reclaim some costs with turkish delight, rose water, rose hip syrup or whatever as a product. It is certainly good for premium price range souvenirs. You need to allow for the introduction in the irrigation system of liquid feed and alternative mains top up to a lower source if it dries out.

Where you are, it is relatively cheap to have metal products made. Here it is dear. I would suggest that, whatever your design, you use your facility to have ornamental ironwork and balcony fronts as well as window box holders to exhibit the local industry and art. Islamic artwork, that is not representational of figures, would be fine but something like a couple dancing with foliage coming out from behind and around them would be lovely too, modern and representational of the new mood in the country.. Similarly, local and other european preoccupation with eternal life, the goddess and overcoming the seasons would be nicely represnted by sa selection of diffeent hederas – ivy – and a local evergreen tree. Also, the flat veriety of juniper at the edges or corners might be fun grown vertically and provide a crop. Finally, lower down, It would be nice to smell and see both lemon and ivy/climbing geranium and, on a hanging basket basis, tumbler variety of tomato which hangs down with little tomatoes to pick when ripe. You can, of course, also grow lemon and lime trees which can be cropped if a system is created to work on the face of the garden without scaffolding, etc. A skyscraper window cleaning system is where I would go with that. Do not allow run-off from the evergreens to acidify the soils other plants are growing in – stagger the areas..

Luv n Lite

Les Ballard