The next photo in our monthly series of plant photos by Karl Blossfeldt is a quiet, subtle print in three parts. The side images are of convolvulus sepium (bindweed) and the middle picture is campanula medium (bellflower). As you will already know from our earlier posts this year, Blossfeldt plant...
Earlier in the month, we provided living walls for Passivhaus consult & construct company Polaris Passivhaus. Polaris needed green walls to enhance their stand at the Grand Designs Live show at the Excel in London. Of course, we were delighted to play our part. Passivhaus is a sustainable design concept. ...
We've had so much going on over the last couple of weeks that we quite forgot to share our April art with you! As you know, we like to share a piece of garden-related art each month. For the whole of 2022, we're showing you photographs by Karl Blossfeldt. Blossfeldt...
Are you one of the many gardening fans who lives in a situation where you don't have a garden of your own? Do you reside in a flat or apartment but long for your own green space? If so, you might be on the lookout for brilliant balcony garden ideas. How...
We were so excited when we discovered this robin's nest in one of our living walls when we made a routine maintenance visit. Of course, living walls attract birds for many reasons, but seeing a nest inside it made our day. We'd like to share the reasons why birds love...
Each month over the last few years, we've shared a great piece of garden-related art. All through 2022 we're looking at Blossfeldt plant photos. For March, we're sharing his image of a cephalaria (giant scabious) seed head. If you've been reading our blog regularly, you'll already know something about Blossfeldt. ...
Last December, we did a really interesting installation in Borehamwood. We had designed a living wall for the newly built headquarters of Griggs Homes, a long-established local house-building firm. We posted about the job in January, so you can see installation photos and read more about the original job. Just...
You may well be aware of the growing trend for interior design with living walls. This is something that we're delighted by, of course. And it's not just because it's good business for us, as a trusted designer and installer of green walls. It's also because we know the benefits...
Last month we shared our first photograph by Karl Blossfeldt, whose work is going to be our art for garden lovers in 2022. He was a German photographer renowned for his close up plant photographs. He became famous almost overnight after the publication of his book in 1929. People went...
In this post we wanted to show you another of the amazing living walls we've found from around the world. In October we shared pictures of the Vertical Forest in Milan (two high rise apartment buildings covered in plants). This time we're looking at the Castello di Aglie, which is...