"Vertical gardens offer environmental benefits such as air purification, noise reduction, and heat island effect mitigation, ultimately improving urban environments."

"Indoor green walls can offer practical benefits such as air purification, noise reduction, and temperature regulation, while also improving the aesthetic and ecological aspects of a building."

"Green roofs can contribute to climate-resilient cities by reducing stormwater runoff and providing other benefits, making them a valuable component of sustainable urban design."

"Green roofs and walls, similar to vertical gardens, can offer environmental benefits such as air purification, noise reduction, and heat island effect mitigation, ultimately improving the urban environment."

"Vertical gardens offer benefits such as beautification, ecology integration, air purification, noise reduction, and heat island effect mitigation, in addition to their environmental advantages."

"Plants with elegant openwork leaves, such as ferns and umbrella plants, are suitable for vertical gardens due to their decorative and airy qualities."

Choosing durable plant varieties is necessary for the long-term success of green beautification projects, including vertical gardens, in different climates.

Plants for vertical gardens should be chosen based on the local climate to ensure they can thrive in the specific conditions.

"Indoor green walls can offer environmental benefits such as air purification, noise reduction, and temperature regulation, ultimately improving the urban environment and potentially having a positive impact on mental health."

Green surfaces, such as green roofs, contribute to improved air quality.

The goal of adding green surfaces to buildings is to create a small oasis, providing a more pleasant environment.

For a low-light vertical garden, plants like pothos, heart leaf philodendrons, and prayer plants are recommended, with prayer plants being particularly suitable for low-light conditions.

"Vertical gardens offer environmental benefits such as air purification, noise reduction, and heat island effect mitigation, ultimately improving urban environments."

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Content: City car park green beautification to create a small oasis
▲ Taichung City Government has vigorously promoted green beautification and expanded the planting of green fences in parking lots and crane yards, so that parking lots become small oases.
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Taichung City is currently building a number of three-dimensional parking lot, after the completion of the parking space in addition to a large increase, the Transportation Bureau also launched a green beautification plan, the parking lot into a small oasis in the city.
As of February this year (113), a total of 59 parking lots and 2 towing yards, including Shuinan Central Park, Chuangyan 22, 26, Dajia Liming Parking Lot, Houli Fuxing Parking Lot, etc., have been successfully landscaped.
▲ The green beautification operation of the parking lot is ongoing, and the selection of durable varieties ensures the long-term operation of the landscape.
"Taichung City Government attaches importance to the voice of the public, improve the parking lot environment, green beautification has become a dazzling highlight of the city!" Transportation Secretary Ye Zhaofu explained that the core of the parking lot renovation plan is to expand green beautification, choose plant varieties with beautification environment and durability, to ensure that the green fence can maintain a beautiful landscape in long-term operation, while having a good impact on the environment.
In the future, we will continue to plant rich and diverse green plants around various parking lots and towing yards to build a green ecological barrier.
▲ The Hing Neutral Parking Lot, which is under construction, integrates aesthetics, environmental protection and ecology with the plan of “Vertical Park of Parking Lot ”.
In addition to beautifying the existing parking lot, the Taichung Municipal Transportation Bureau also combines greening concepts with greening concepts for the parking lot currently under construction. For example, the Hing Neutral Parking Lot, which is expected to open in 114 years, is different from the traditional green landscape design. Make the wall green effect, so that the parking lot looks like a three-dimensional forest in the park, integrating beauty, environmental protection and ecology, providing a green barrier that can purify the air, reduce noise and heat island effect, and improve the urban environment.
The park concept is integrated into the parking lot design, and the size of the parking lot is reduced to increase the area of green space. The event plaza and urban ribbon multi-purpose space are planned on Chenggong Road and Hing Chung Street.
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Content: More than a hundred pounds of tomatoes. Forty-eight pounds of cucumbers. Nearly 20 pounds of basil, dill, cilantro, and other herbs.

In all, the research green roof at the CSU System Spur campus has now produced 204.5 pounds of produce in its initial growing season at the recently opened Terra building.

This harvest has already bolstered deliveries for local families participating in a food access program administered by The GrowHaus. For Jennifer Bousselot, an assistant professor of horticulture at CSU and lead designer of the research green roof, it is also providing an exciting glimpse at how urban rooftops might be transformed in coming years into productive gardens that can help feed, inspire, and inform surrounding communities.

“This is the largest publicly accessible green roof research space that we know about,” Bousselot said. “To be able to do this research in Colorado’s biggest city is incredible.”

The green roof, open to Spur visitors during the campus’s regular operating hours, currently has four sections, including a 576-square-foot food production area that contains a “salsa garden” replete with tomatoes, peppers, cilantro, and chives, as well as nasturtiums, which add their edible, orangey-red petals to the mix.

Three other sections are exploring different types of plants and how they respond to the weather extremes of a Denver rooftop.

  • A “Pollinator Garden” aims to optimize the growth of beardtongues, red-birds-in-a-tree, columbines, and other flowering plants that can support the overall health of the urban ecosystem;
  • A “Medicinal Plant” section is seeking insight on how lemongrass, mint, and other species react to the intense conditions found on urban rooftops;
  • And a “Sown Meadow” comprised of coreopsis, California poppies, and other species is providing multiple plots to examine combinations that maximize growth and pollinator habitat.

Students, including K-12 school groups visiting Spur, have been involved from the beginning in research and upkeep of the green roof. On an ongoing basis, four CSU students completing internships with Bousselot have taken on much of the work maintaining the space, and the green roof is the research focus for two of Bousselot’s graduate students from the department of horticulture and landscape architecture.

Leah McGill, a CSU senior majoring in agricultural biology, talked about her summer internship experience, from planting and tending vegetables and flowers, to tracking their growth and even working on the irrigation system.

“I learned so much about different careers, and even about the interconnections involving construction and landscaping and education,” McGill said. And she appreciated the team’s partnership with GrowHaus and the opportunity to interact with families. “I wasn’t expecting that community element.”

Jennifer Bousselot helps plant the green roof. Photo: Kevin Samuelson / CSU System

While the scale of a rooftop garden is tiny compared to that of commercial farms, Bousselot explains how producing fresh produce for nearby communities is just one of many benefits associated with transforming plentiful – and generally barren – urban rooftops into thriving gardens. In addition to investigating how best to grow plants in the rooftop environment, her research team is exploring the extent to which green roofs can help reduce stormwater runoff and provide other benefits.

A second research green roof, which will be installed on the Spur campus’s nearly complete Hydro building, will take urban agriculture in a different direction by exploring its complementarity with solar panels, an area known as rooftop agrivoltaics. The panels, positioned alone on a rooftop, are great for converting solar radiation into electricity, and yet temperatures, particularly in summer, can quickly climb above the optimal temperature range, in the mid 70s Fahrenheit, at which the panels work most efficiently. Pairing the panels with a green roof is a way to cut those temperatures, and the extra shade also benefits certain plant species that may not need or benefit from constant direct sunlight.

Reducing the urban heat island effect and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions are two of the primary goals of Denver’s Green Buildings Ordinance, which took effect in 2018 and requires developers and property owners who are constructing or modifying buildings over a certain size to pick from a menu of options aimed at limiting heating and increasing overall green space. Bousselot, who serves on the board of the North American green roof industry association, Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, served as a technical adviser in crafting the Denver ordinance, and she sees the ways the research at Spur and at other sites will help lead to the installation of green roofs that are both efficient and elegant.

This elegance is apparent to those visiting the Terra building’s research green roof, which is accessible from the fourth floor. The garden is compact and organized, and in late summer it is resplendent with myriad flowers, along with plump tomatoes, delicate fairy tale eggplants, and hearty jalapeños.

Exposing students and community members to research and activities involving food, water, and health is central to the mission of the Spur campus, the construction of which was funded in 2015 with $200 million from the state legislature. The Terra building, which opened in June and includes the research green roof, is the second of three CSU buildings that will be part of the National Western Center, a redevelopment of the historic grounds of the National Western Stock Show in north Denver. The third building, Hydro, is scheduled to open in January.

Jocelyn Hittle, the CSU System’s associate vice chancellor for the Spur campus and special projects, has been closely involved in development of the campus from the beginning, and she has been thrilled to see the way school groups, community members, and other visitors to the green roof and other Spur research spaces have reacted upon seeing science being done right in front of them.

“At Terra, for instance, the programs are focused on innovations in agriculture, and on letting people see the creative ways that researchers are working to make food production more sustainable,” Hittle said. “It’s about providing a space in which visitors can connect with the scientists and businesses involved in each step in the food system.”

Planting the green roof at CSU Spur Terra. Photo: Kevin Samuelson / CSU System

With construction of Spur’s three buildings nearing completion, the focus is now shifting toward the ways the campus will offer new insights into scientific research while helping visitors understand how they might become involved in addressing societal challenges.

Jim Bradeen, Colorado State University’s associate vice president for CSU Spur strategy, oversees the campus’s overall research enterprise, and he speaks excitedly about the dozens of programs that are underway at Spur or are in the works.

“The green roof and other activities at Spur are really creating a new model for education, outreach, and engagement,” Bradeen said. “I’m looking forward to seeing what happens as we bring more people into this critical work.”

About CSU Spur

CSU Spur is a new, free educational year-round public life-long learning destination in Denver focused on engaging K-12 students, families, and visitors around food, water, and health. CSU Spur showcases the work of the CSU System campuses: CSUCSU Pueblo, and CSU Global, and offers degree programs that originate from the campus offerings. Spur is built upon the land-grant mission of access to education and the belief that students can be anything they want to be. To inspire learners of all ages to engage in important world issues, CSU Spur brings together scientists to collaborate, puts science on-display, and showcases career paths. The CSU Spur campus provides immersive learning experiences and cutting-edge research across three buildings: Vida, Terra, and Hydro. Learn more at CSUSpur.org.

"Green roofs and walls, similar to vertical gardens, can offer environmental benefits such as air purification, noise reduction, and heat island effect mitigation, ultimately improving the urban environment."

"Vertical gardens offer benefits such as beautification, ecology integration, air purification, noise reduction, and heat island effect mitigation, in addition to their environmental advantages."

"Plants with elegant openwork leaves, such as ferns and umbrella plants, are suitable for vertical gardens due to their decorative and airy qualities."

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Unusual flower beds for garden
Modern trends dictate not to plant the entire plot with beds, but to create gardens and flower beds in order to have a pleasant rest alone or in the company.
In order to make the garden of your dreams in the country, you can create amazing flower arrangements in flower beds that will add comfort and beauty to the site.
1.
Rutarium
Stunning compositions
The unique art of creating compositions from wood, which is perfect for decorating a flower garden.
Rutarium is the cultivation of plants in specially carved cavities of various wooden elements.
Examples may be round firewood, log or old tree trunks.
This is a great way to give the flower garden a unique appearance and place interesting accents on the site.
Rutaries are of different types:
Natural rutarium - unites elements of the plant world, alive and not, in their natural state, without being subjected to human changes.
Basic Rutarium – It uses elements of wood that have been processed but retain their original structure and shape.
Basic Rutarium
Art-routine includes both living and non-living elements.
The focus is on a wooden sculpture or figure, such as a driftwood or stump, which becomes the centerpiece of the composition and is complemented by living plants to emphasize its beauty.
To create a rutarium, you can use a variety of plants, from flowering and ferns to herbs, berries, vines and even low coniferous shrubs.
This allows each routine to be unique and unique.
Bright flowers are good for him too.
2.
Ensemble of leaves
Very picturesque
Another option for decorating a flower garden is a composition of various plant species with a variety of leaf shapes and colors.
This will help to achieve a beautiful and harmonious combination of the flower bed with the rest of the green part of the garden, which will please the eye and soul.
Place plants with different leaf textures next to each other to create an amazing effect.
Coloured leaves are also good.
For such a flower garden, many plants will suit - daromeoa, sugar medunitsa, brunner, cuff, badan thick, geyhera hybrid.
Astilboides tabulireformis with lamellar leaves.
Peltiphyllum peltifolius - the thyroid leaves of this plant will contrast beautifully with the surrounding greens.
Podophyll peltatum, podophyll rodgersia, hosts of various large varieties.
Bergenia large-leaved and labaznik large-leaved complete the composition.
3.
Alien landscape using succulents
Very unusual flowers
For example, they can be placed in an old stump - this is another interesting idea for a flower garden.
Succulents are distinguished by unusual shapes and textures of leaves, which allows you to create amazing compositions in old stumps or other unusual places.
Such a flower garden will attract attention with its exoticism and originality.
They are divided into two main categories depending on the location of water storage:
Stem succulents have stems that are thickened and able to store water in their tissue, whether it is bark or its own core.
To this group belong many representatives of the family of cacti, as well as some species of euphorbia.
Really Alien
Leafy succulents, they have water stored mainly in the leaves, which makes them dense, elastic and fleshy.
Typical representatives include aloe, lithops, havortia, echeveria and various types of tolstyanaceae.
4.
Animals from plants with openwork foliage or moss
Hedgehog from plants
For example, for hedgehogs on the site will be suitable for cineraria.
This is not only an attractive design element, but also a great way to add a touch of originality to the garden.
In garden design, a special place is occupied by plants with elegant openwork leaves, which give the landscape lightness and unique style.
These include - ferns, such as fegopteris, nomad, eagle; umbrella - this group of plants is known for its complex and openwork leaves.
Among them are the butene and the femur, which decorate the garden with their umbrellas, the kervel and the myrris fragrant, as well as the Peloponnesian molopospermum and the thin-leaved gircha.
Buzulniki - Tangut and Buzulnik Przewalski attract attention with their large and expressive leaves.
These plants not only decorate the garden, but also make it a feeling of lightness and airiness.
From moss, you can also create beautiful sculptures or decorate glades, giving the garden mystery and charm.
This can be a lined decorative path, a flower bed in the form of a turtle, or an alpine slide consisting also of moss.
Turtles from moss
Gypsum moss is perfect for softening stony corners, cuckoo flax, fern moss.
Sphagnum, which is known for its ability to retain moisture, making it indispensable for moisture-loving plants.
Dicranum will add a textural accent to garden compositions.
These plants can be used not only for decorating rocky surfaces, but also for revitalizing pillars, metal fences and fences.
Due to their unpretentiousness and ability to adapt to various conditions, they grow perfectly on both vertical and horizontal surfaces, without requiring complex care.
Path of moss
5.
Creating a secret garden in a thick shade
The Secret Shelter
Here you can use ferns and shade-loving plants that frame gazebos and pergolas, creating mysterious grottoes.
This place will be a pleasant shelter from the sun and a place to relax in the shade.
In order to close even the roof of the gazebo fit any climbing plants, such as wild grapes, climbing rose or clematis.
In these places sheltered from the sun, you can put tables, chairs or benches and enjoy the shadow in the hot summer days.
6.
Snow-white composition in a flowerbed
Monochrome flower garden
Solid flower garden, consisting only of white flowers - lily of the valley, dahlias, echinacea, blooming phlox pillows, silver velvety chistetz, stennik, karyopteris, astilba, goryanka, kupens, tiarka, hosts
7.
Decorative bows
Any plant is beautiful
Plants with round inflorescences create arches or arcs, forming the effect of an exhibition garden.
It will attract attention and delight the eye.
Among the vast variety of ornamental bows are especially attractive - aflatun, inclined, Christophe, Dutch onion, popular due to its durability and beauty, executive bow, karatava, macleana, suvorova onion has unique twisted leaves.
8.
Cereal field on the site
It is necessary to correctly combine various decorative cereals
Decorative cereals can add texture and volume to the flower garden.
They should be planted in the center or along the edges of the flower garden to create an amazing steppe landscape, as well as mix different combinations of cereals to create interesting combinations.
Among them, we can distinguish Chinese miscanthus, cowl, blue prayer, festuka, a variety of shades from blue-green to silver makes it popular in landscape design, the emperor is cylindrical, stands out for its bright red tips of leaves.
9.
Use of floating containers
It looks incredible.
To create the illusion of a floating decorative vessel in a decorative pond on the site, any plants that tolerate moisture well and can grow in pots are suitable.
A variety of flowers and greenery placed in containers will look original and attract the attention of guests.
The artificial vessel can be fixed with a ballast at the bottom of the pond, or give it the opportunity to swim freely.
10.
Using gladioluses with a dense bouquet
A lot of bright colors decorate the garden
Such a composition can be surrounded by a carpet of small flowers.
This unusual way of decorating a flower garden will emphasize the beauty and elegance of gladioli, giving the flower garden a special charm.
Gladiolus, numbering approximately 300 species, is widely represented in ecosystems from the Mediterranean to the South African regions.
On the territory of Russia grows about nine unique species of these flowering plants.
Italian gladiolus has small flowers resembling grains, gladiolus is tiled with a characteristic scaly flower structure.
Common gladiolus, hybrid gladiolus.
It is important to select flowers
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By Megan Backhouse

To look at Andy Beales digging up Jerusalem artichokes and weeding around kale you wouldn’t think he was pushing boundaries. Like any sensible food grower he is shredding garden waste to speed up his composting and laying down straw to encourage worms. His shovel and wheelbarrow sit at the ready. But here’s the thing that I haven’t yet mentioned: he is on a roof – the roof of a suburban shopping centre, no less.

“It’s not like a normal farm where you can just whack in a star picket to make a climbing frame for your tomatoes,” Beales says. “If you want to bring in a cubic metre of compost, you’ve first got to think about the capacity of your goods lift.”

A normal farm this Burwood Brickworks rooftop might not be but it is a sign of what farms might yet become. As for what public parks might become, look no further than the manicured shrubs and timber day beds nestled in the sky between office towers in Collins Street. At the “Skypark”, the lawn is so green and so perfectly uniform that, when I visited this week, I had to touch it to check it was real.

Both these green roofs are mentioned in the new Maintenance Guidelines For Australian Green Roofs, which refocus our attention on an age-old idea that, after about a decade of active research, is starting to get a new foothold in Melbourne.

In the face of climate change, the biodiversity emergency and increasing urban density, green roofs can help make cities less destructive and more climate-resilient. They are cooling and biodiversity increasing. They reduce stormwater run-off, improve air quality and provide people with the pure pleasure of vegetation.

But only if they are well managed. Ignore them and they are doomed to failure. You might say this is true of every garden. But it is especially the case with landscapes on roofs, where almost nothing comes about by chance.

Green roofs are engineered “systems” with specially designed waterproofing, protection and drainage layers. The plants are growing in carefully concocted substrates applied at specific depths. The plants themselves are chosen to ensure they can cope with conditions off the ground.

The new maintenance guidelines, written by the University of Melbourne’s John Rayner, Elspeth Lumsden and Rachael Bathgate, detail how to manage all this in the local climate.

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They discuss the need for safe access, for ensuring all the different green roof layers remain intact and for managing effective irrigation and drainage. They emphasise the importance of understanding how plants – including weeds – behave differently on roofs compared to the ground.

Some of this is as simple as maintaining adequate substrate depth and not using hand tools with sharp points or edges that might pierce underlying layers. Some things – like cutting back plants that start to overly dominate – are similar to what you would do on the ground. But other tasks, such as removing woody weeds that develop potentially damaging taproots, can take on new urgency.

The key is to nail down how you will tend the roof from when it is first being designed, and then to stick to the schedule and also monitor the space regularly. While the guidelines, which can be downloaded for free, are largely aimed at those in planning, design, maintenance and management roles, they are relevant for anyone thinking about installing vegetation on the roof of their own home.

Although there have always been enthusiasts like Brod Street, who, about a decade ago conducted his own research and installed a beguiling grassland on top of his 1890s Hawthorn brick cottage – then added a successful “wetland” in 2019 and then a high-yielding vegetable patch on top of his backyard shed in January this year – there are lots of potential pitfalls for the uninitiated.

Even for the experienced some green roofs are easier to manage than others. The guidelines detail how much more care is required for the sort of productive roof currently being tended by Beales at the Burwood Brickworks, for example, compared with a lightweight, restricted-access one predominantly composed of low-growing succulents. To guarantee success, it’s crucial to tailor the maintenance plan to the site.

“There have been some really sad disasters around Melbourne,” Rayner says. “I am a fan of green roofs but I am a fan of successful green roofs. There is no point installing these things if they are not going to be sustained successfully. These are living landscapes that need maintenance planned into their design and management.”

Maintenance Guidelines For Australian Green Roofs can be downloaded for free from girg.science.unimelb.edu.au.

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"Indoor green walls can offer environmental benefits such as air purification, noise reduction, and temperature regulation, ultimately improving the urban environment and potentially having a positive impact on mental health."

Green surfaces, such as green roofs, contribute to improved air quality.

The goal of adding green surfaces to buildings is to create a small oasis, providing a more pleasant environment.

For a low-light vertical garden, plants like pothos, heart leaf philodendrons, and prayer plants are recommended, with prayer plants being particularly suitable for low-light conditions.

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Content: Invite nature into your home by creating a verdant "living wall" display

Humans need plants to survive.

We eat them, drink them, use them as medicine, and even decorate with them in order to bring joy to our daily lives.

Once you start caring for a couple of houseplants, it's easy to spiral into an obsession with our magnificent, leafy friends. If your collection of 20-plus houseplants isn't enough to satiate your need for greenery in your home anymore, why not take it to the next level with a full-blown living wall?

Living walls, or vertical gardens as they're sometimes called, are made up of an array of live plants that are planted vertically and can range in size from just a few square feet to entire walls in large atrium spaces.

However, larger installations can cost upwards of $125-$225 per square foot of wall and aren't exactly feasible for renters or homeowners who are on a strict budget or have limited space.

While you can certainly contract a company to install a living wall in your home, there are also local and handcrafted options to consider depending on your budget, your lifestyle and what look you're going for.

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Dominic Villareal in front of A Modern Plantsman's living wall display.

Dominic Villareal, the owner of A Modern Plantsman, weighed his own options when expanding his Colfax plant store to downtown Spokane in late 2021.

"My partner and I were scoping out the local plant scene, and we noticed immediately that there was a lack of living wall installations in Spokane," he says. "There are no plant stores or nurseries in the area that have one."

When Villareal secured the space for his shop on the main floor of the Hotel Indigo building, he began designing a plant wall that was eye-catching as well as functional for his customers. The plant wall, constructed by Villareal himself, features wooden shelves that are just deep enough to hide the pots that the plants reside in, giving it the appearance of a living wall.

"That's very doable for a home setting," he says. "You can take the pots off the shelf for easy watering and care."

Villareal recommends plants that trail for any DIY living wall project, but also says that including plants of different heights can give the wall a much more textured and varied appearance.

"Start with plants like pothos, heart leaf philodendrons and prayer plants," Villareal says. "Prayer plants specifically can deal with very low-light situations, which is perfect for a home installation. They'll disguise any nonnatural elements of the wall once they start to trail down."

Previous owner of Sage + Moss and seasoned houseplant parent Annecia Paulson recommends utilizing organic elements when creating your display for ease of watering and a more harmonious facade.

The most common way to do this is by creating mounted plant displays. Mounted plants are plants that have been affixed onto an object using moss or other organic materials.

"Creating mounted plants is actually a really easy process," she says. "You simply remove most of the dirt from the roots, place the plant on the piece of bark and then attach it using sphagnum moss and fishing line."

The upkeep and care of mounted plants lie in the choice of wood, Paulson says.

"Using cork bark is the best option — it's lightweight and naturally mold-resistant. Just soak the whole thing in water, let it drip dry and then hang it on your wall using Command hooks or string. Super simple," she says.

If the trial and error of diving in headfirst just isn't your thing, many area plant stores, including A Modern Plantsman, offer workshops on how to create mounted plants and products that can assist you in your journey to creating a living wall.

"We really try to act as a resource for people in the community," Villareal says. "We want to help people learn how to do these things. I've already gone through the trial and error of the projects that people attempt at home, so I'm happy to give people that knowledge." ♦

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