Vertical landscaping in an apartment requires a thorough approach to the
And this is literally, since the walls of greenery require solid bases, in the form of a wooden or aluminum frame. However, in order to grow plants on a vertical plane, you can use any materials, from wire and fishing nets, to beautiful decorative crochets and forged metal structures .In particular, in the apartment at the corners or as a separator of a room into two sectors, several dry low trees can be planted, almost at the root of the root - devoid of excess branches, they can become pedestals for small pots of flowers.
Decorative garden arches and pergolas( connected as far as an arches into a long corridor with lattice walls and uppers) are practically not used in the apartment as a support for vertical gardening, although if the area allows, you can find a place for them, for example, on an open loggia or spaciousbalcony. But it's enough just to build a shelving along the wall to get a vertical gardening of the room. To do this, at a small distance from the wall( 5-10 cm) to the floor and ceiling( as well as to the wall itself) are fastened thick bars( 50x50 mm) or metal pipes with an interval of half a meter. From the floor to the ceiling, cross-section bars with a cross section of at least 30x30 mm are screwed at regular intervals through the screws. Retreating from the resulting design of 20-30 cm erect exactly the same. We connect both structures with each other bars of the same cross-section 30x30 mm, we stuff on the resulting layers the crate with thin rails and arrange plastic or wooden boxes. The basis of vertical gardening is ready.
Vertical landscaping in the interior as an element of the design
The furnishing of the apartment consists of many different objects, and vertical landscaping can become one of the elements in the interior or completely disrupt the harmony of the design of the room. Therefore, it all depends on you, how skillfully you will fit the wall of greenery into the room. If you have a lot of plastic light shades in the room, a wooden rack in such a room will look inappropriate, much more organically fit chrome with light plastic boxes for flowers, under the color of furniture. In the same place where the furniture is wooden, it is much more natural to look like a wooden rack.
But, back to our shelves, which are ready to receive plants. It is clear that the plants are simply not placed on shelves, they need to be planted in a good soil, and that in turn should be poured into strong tubs, pots or boxes. So, in order of priority. We take a container that is recognized by you, as the most suitable in the interior, at the bottom we pour small pebbles and pour a coarse-grained sand not too thick, up to 3 cm in thickness. This is a kind of drainage. The earth needs to be prepared for each plant individually.
The most unpretentious plants, such as Amur grapes, will have a mixture of peat and ash, some plants prefer that in the soil there is an admixture of humus, which was obtained from stale leaves, rather than from manure. From above, after planting plants the ground can be covered with moss, it will limit the evaporation of moisture from the ground.
But the earth is ready for planting and the boxes can be placed on our shelving. We need to think in advance about how to fix our plantings on the shelves, because anything can happen, and it will be very unpleasant to collect ground from the floor mixed with broken sprouts. Therefore, either in advance we make on the shelf a limiting edge, or simply install in front of boxes large-mesh gratings, corresponding to the material of the rack, which will not interfere with plants or you. Well, since, when a vertical landscaping of the walls is created, the plants are chosen predominantly from lianas, the shelf will soon disappear under twigs and a thick layer of leaves.
Vertical landscaping of the balcony, a close connection with nature
Sometimes you look at the densely planted balconies and it is difficult to understand where the wild nature ends, expressed by the branches of trees stretching to the balcony, and artificial landscaping begins. It is in this and is the vertical gardening of the balcony - to be as close to nature as possible. And for this purpose, not only the balcony, but every room in an apartment or a country house is suitable. However, we are now talking about the balcony.
To allow plants to grow freely, it is not at all necessary to let them along the walls by stretched wire or gratings. You can build a light arched complex along the balcony fence and let the vines along it. From arches, you can also make short pergolas by placing them in pairs, so that opposite the arch at the fence there is an arch in the depth of the balcony, at the door. So you can turn the exit to a balcony in a green shady corridor, but this option requires some space on the balcony.
From plants it is best to choose Amur grapes, and not only on the balcony, but in the whole apartment, his whips will look great. As its slightly sourish berries are edible , from them it turns out a wonderful light house wine or an excellent jam. Imagine what kind of harvest can be collected from the whole apartment, not to mention the fact that this plant will turn both the balcony and each room into a green gazebo. However, it is not necessary to restrict one grapes, it is possible to plant both hops, and actinidia, Chinese magnolia vine, berries which have an excellent tonic effect.
