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- Create a vertical indoor garden
- Designs for vertical gardens indoors
- These plants are eligible
- Irrigation of the indoor wall garden
- Vertical garden lighting in
- Care of the wall garden indoors
Green walls in the living room improve the air quality
Create a vertical indoor garden
Vertical gardens can be created both indoors and outdoors. Inside, they ensure a pleasant room climate and increase the oxygen content. In addition, green walls calm the eyes and mind. In the following you will learn what to look for in the vertical indoor garden and which plants are suitable.
Designs for vertical gardens indoors
If a completely green wall is to be created, the wall should be protected with a waterproof layer. However, there are other, less expensive types of construction that do not require this measure:
These plants are eligible
In principle, of course, you can use all indoor plants for your vertical garden. However, for wall gardens often plants are used, bushy grow, hang or climb, so this looks as tight as possible. Flowering plants are rarely processed. Here are some ideas:
Creating a vertical garden depends not only on the right choice of plants but also on their arrangement. We have put together nice ideas for you here.
Also make sure that the neighboring plants need a similar amount of water.
Irrigation of the indoor wall garden
Prefabricated vertical gardens from the retail trade are usually provided with an automatic irrigation, from the top continuously or at certain times of the day water trickles down and watering all plants. In self-construction, such a sophisticated system can only be produced to a limited extent. You can e.g. Place a water hose in your planter boxes, fix it and pierce several small holes. However, you should work very carefully, so that no water flows next to it. To pour, simply connect the hose and turn on the faucet for a few minutes.
Vertical garden lighting in
Not only during the day do vertical gardens liven up living space, they can also have a nice effect at night - especially when lit up. Spotlights that are directed at the wall are a solution, another is to install waterproof fairy lights or individual lights in the wall so that the green wall glows from the inside out. It would also be possible solar lights, such as those that you put in the garden. If your wall garden is in a darker part of your home, you can help grow the plants with UV light bulbs.
Care of the wall garden indoors
A wall garden works like all gardens. They should: