Vertical Gardens in Urban Settings - Blue Fern India

A tiny pot of succulents on your office desk can improve your willingness to work. Similarly, small potted plants in the balcony of your home or at the entrance of your enterprise will make it feel more homely and lively. Green plants are therapy for humans, and taking care of them and seeing it grow every day gives us a sense of nurture and care. While in urban settings, space is always a constraint, vertical gardens can be a great option to surround ourselves with plants.

What are vertical gardens?
Commonly called as green walls or bio-walls, vertical garden is a system of growing plants vertically on walls or other supports, using vertical space, as opposed to horizontal space. These can be established indoors or outdoors, according to one’s requirement. The vertical gardens can be developed using a wide variety of suitable plants,planted in panels, pots, geotextile fabric pouches, etc.

Vertical gardens inUrban settings

Green plants,in any form, bring with them innumerable advantages of air purification, reducing temperatures, reducing noise pollution and giving us a calming, stress free environment. Apart from this, plants greatly improve the aesthetics of our surroundings, indoors or outdoors.

Vertical gardens give us all these advantages without taking up any precious floor space in our urban homes, offices or outdoors.

Vertical gardens are a boon for urban settings. Theysoften our concrete surroundings using minimum space, and in the process, give us living, natural works of art.

As vertical gardens drastically improve the aesthetics of a place, vertical gardens are setup at entrances of commercial establishments for beautification. They are also setup as feature walls in corporate offices or in residences. They can be used to screen unwanted views, where they can be setup on artificial frameworks instead of walls.

If you are one of the lucky few with ample space for a garden and potted plants, you can add vertical gardens to your space as a beautiful backdrop for your cherished collection of plants.