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Just Grow Up: How to Start a Vertical Garden
Just Grow Up: How to Start a Vertical Garden
When it comes to foliage, sometimes it’s better to just grow up. That’s our consensus after meeting with living wall expert Miguel Nelson, founder of Woolly Pockets, a Los Angeles-based company that makes hanging and freestanding “pockets” for plants. Nelson’s containers literally pocket a plant while adhering to any wall—indoor or outdoor—with just a couple of screws.
We sat down with Nelson to discuss exactly what a vertical garden is, the benefits of having one and how in just three steps (and five minutes) you can create your first vertical garden for your home.
Not sure how to care for your garden as it grows up? Check out Woolly Pocket for tips on everything from planting to watering.
Be sure to visit them on Twitter too, where every week you have a chance to win a free Woolly Pocket.
As part of the Pepsi Refresh Project, during the month of June, you can vote for the Woolly School Garden Program and help the Woolly team win a grant to donate edible gardens to over 250 schools nationwide.
Here’s the best part: Leave a comment below and be entered to win your very own Woolly Pocket!
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Morose
OMG! This is a dream come true … living in a small apartment on the 2nd floor where only the back gets sun, I’ve dreamt of hanging my crops on a wall since there’s no more space on my windowsills! In love.
Brenna
Perfect Timing! My bf has been tending to his tiny garden on his tiny santa monica apt. deck. I am so glad I was able to forward this to him! Going to follow them on twitter too!
Thanks!!
Jamie
I love how the woolly pockets make otherwise boring spaces bloom.
stephanie
i’m so intrigued by these wooly pockets! I’ve been seeing them in blogs a lot lately. i’d love to hang some on our cement wall in the back yard
Kelly
These are so cool! Saw them last year at the Dwell conference, thought they were great!
Carina
Love this idea! I have just the right area to start this project.
Rebecca
Love the woolly pockets, especially for a city dweller like myself. Am picturing these lining the chain link fence around the apartment and what a great way to teach the neighborhood kids about urban gardening! Anytime I work in our 6 square foot flower garden, I always have help.
Here are some other urban garden solutions: http://www.urbansherp.com/how-does-your-garden-grow
Christina
I love this idea!! I saw them at the Garden Show at the Arboretum and loved it!! Can’t wait to try them!!
Evelyne Brinkley
Your woolly pockets are wonderful!
I love plants so very much and I have tried every way to put as many as possible in my apartment, to the point that my kitchen table only sits 3 people because the other 3 settings are covered with plants.
You are so ingenious and I wish I was rich so that I could line all my walls with woolly pocketed plants and especially (my dream) turn my bedroom into a greenhouse!
araceli
love these! just a large installation of these at homeboy industries in chinatown.
Fremin
This is absolutely brilliant! Having lived in europe and central America
I’ve seen beautiful lush vertical gardens and now I can have my very own
I saw a small wall garden at Descanso Garden’s garden store and was in
love with the idea!
Ariel
I think these are the cutest. I just moved into an old farmhouse and it only gets sun on one side – thinking of doing some vertical gardening to maximize our vegetable growing area…
Mrs. Green
These are EXTREMELY cool. I’ve been thinking about creating a gazebo and/or a terraced garden on the back side of our garage, and these appear to be a very aesthetically appealing option – great use of “dead” space. Sign me up! ;^)
Aurora
Hi, thanks for posting about us! We thought these Woolly Pocket videos might interest you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A_oYFurxt8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP4p4KQl0YA
Woolly Yours,
Aurora
aurora at woollypocket dot com
Wendy Fowlie
My daughter lives in Newport Beach in her new first home. The five foot block wall does not give her backyard (including a spa) any privacy as the next door neighbor’s bedroom window looks right in to the yard and the kitchen window. I am wondering how we could use woollypockets to green the block wall and block out the view of neighbors (good people but privacy is important). Could one row of pockets hold plants which could grow three feet tall and very dense? It would seem that an 8 foot by 20 foot solid wall of woollypockets (and plants) would be very expensive. Do you do any installation or have installers to recommend?
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