These are what I term 'poor man's living walls'. I am not really up to the construction process for a real living wall. Since I water stuff on a daily basis in summer anyway this is kind of the same thing just with different substrate. Most living walls are built on large frames faced with either Biofelt, cork, stuffed moss and outfitted with hoses on pumps kind of like hydroponics that pump water over the wall almost continuously. I don;t need that.
These are old Rubbermaid shelf units I found up in the over garage attic from the last owned of the house. I attached them to the greenhouse wall and covered the fronts only with coir matting/cork bark slabs. I can hang plants onto this frame that are containerized or mounted on treefern or cork.
AT the bottom I took old windowbox planters I had sitting around empty and planted them with a variety of things, both climbers and terrestrial fillers. My hope is that once the plants take off in the upcoming growing season they will populate the face of the support at the same time the basket fillers fill the bottom part. I can also hand things like mounted orchids, staghorns etc in empty spots
This is another (I made 3 so far). This is an eventual huge growing Anthurium which has to have a tree for support in the wild. Once it starts to trunk and attaches to this wall it should be pretty spectacular. Leaves can get as big as car hoods
This is a planter system I had in front
Mix of climbers and terrestrials
this Monstera dubia was already on a mount, just set in in here to start attaching to this support
And this Epipremnum pinnatum variegated is outside the planter but will climb up the edge
This is the longer view of the planter I first posted with the White Wizard. This could be done in your house. This is a 35 gallon planter. The totem is stabilized inside, but because I have no plans to ever move it, the top is also attached for extra stabilization to the gerenhouse ceiling cross struts. To move this, you would need a minimum of 3 people...2 on the container, one to stabilize the totem
again, a mix of fillers and climbers
orchid to drape over the side
climbing large growing anthurium
Things really love this coir mat and readily send roots into it
