Green Wall or Vertical Garden Design Workshop

A green wall is a vertically-built structure intentionally covered by a variety of plant species, from indoor plants to succulents as well as traditional climbing plants. Whether you're tight on space or need to create some screening to provide privacy on a patio, deck, or balcony, vertical is the way to go!Vertical gardening uses upright growth habits or containers to make the most of your growing space. It's a technique that works indoors or out. Brighten up a kitchen or bare wall indoors, and add screening and colour outdoors. You can also grow a vertical kitchen garden near your back door or pretty up a dull or ugly exterior wall. The sky is the limit to what you can do when you're growing up!Many different types of houseplants, annuals, perennials, and shrubs work well in a vertical space, so you're not limited to what plants you can use. Adding window boxes, hanging pots, or a garden structure such as a trellis also provides additional exterior vertical growing space.So, get creative with your space, capture that free solar energy, and convert it to a fragrant flower wall, an impressive herb garden, a bonsai collection, or a cherry tomato micro-farm! In this hands-on workshop, your experienced tutor will work with the spaces of your garden areas to help you to plan and design your green wall.Join this workshop to explore the options and select the vertical solution that works for you. It's time to bring the beauty of nature upward with sustainable urban gardening!What will be covered in this class?What do green walls look like?

• The wonderful diversity of garden options and garden types, from inner-city small space gardens that can include fresh herb gardens and high productivity micro-farms for vegetables
• Inexpensive, high-impact, colourful, healthy and productive options
• Evaluation of different installation options

The range of green wall types

• Heavy-duty – concrete
• Medium-heavy – wood, metal
• Lightweight – plastic, fibreglass, resin, polythene, felt
• Re-purposed and up-cycled containers

Vertical garden containers

• Pots and containers
• Why the sizes of containers matter

Simple, sensible, reliable growing techniques

• Practical methods for healthy maintenance
• Oxygen, aeration, drainage, filtration
• Watering, irrigation, fertilising and pruning

Design and constructionThe practical aspects of design and construction (planning, layout, materials, budgets, structural and physical aspects) to progress the design plan into a practical realityPractical outcomesDiscussion on the availability of tools, labour, materials and equipment, and matching concept plans to realistic outcomesIntended audienceThis class is for people who want to explore the possibilities of green walls and vertical gardens, and want to know about what's involved in installing green walls before starting a garden installation project. It is for people who want more out of their garden, want to fix an eyesore wall, want to make productive use of their spaces, teach the kids to grow and maintain plants, or people who simply have no space for a herb or vegetable garden on the ground in their yard. By the end of this class, you should be able to:

• Determine the appropriate types of green wall and/or vertical garden for your space
• Draft and develop a green wall installation plan
• Select the final green wall/vertical garden materials required
• Prepare for the vertical garden installation
• Construct and install your green wall landscaping

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