How to plant a Hanging Garden
Hanging Gardens are remarkably easy to install and plant up. Our vertical hanging gardens are ideal for hanging over fences, walls and balconies to create instant vertical gardens. Each garden has three removable felt pockets for your plants. The felt pockets [...]
Big World, Small Planet
Planetary Boundaries In 'Big World, Small Planet', Johan Rockstrom and Mattias Klum have encapsulated the shift from the comfortable Holocene age to the volatile Anthropocene age in a wonderful handbook for all those concerned about the future of humanity. I urge [...]
Why soil based vertical gardens work best
In New Zealand, plants have evolved over millions of years to grow in tiny pockets of soil and many of our native plants simply grow in the trees. By replicating the natural environment and providing pockets of soil, Hanging Gardens provides [...]
Art or architecture?
Would you rather have an artist or an architect design your home? Having grown up in a family of artists and architects and lacking the required skills, I consoled myself with becoming a huge fan of Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard [...]
Curing obesity by addressing human stress levels
Did you know that there is an incredibly close correlation between the rise of obesity around the globe and human stress levels over the past 60+ years? Stress is also closely linked to increased social media pressures. And if you did [...]
Replicating nature with soil based vertical gardens
In New Zealand, plants have evolved over millions of years to grow in tiny pockets of soil and many of our native plants simply grow in the trees. By replicating the natural environment and providing pockets of soil, Hanging Gardens provides [...]
How Hanging Gardens perform over time
Many people ask us how vertical gardens perform over time and this is a good question to ask! In the UK, ancient hedgerows support some 10,000 species of wildlife. These corridors of vegetation require little maintenance. With vertical gardens, we should [...]
What is water worth?
In this blistering heat, I thought about water and how China is buying up large quantities of resources around the globe, to the extent that the very definition of sovereignty is changing. These resources include vast amounts of forests, farmlands, oil [...]