Living wall guides
Straight answers to the questions people ask before they put up a living wall. Each one starts with the answer.
Before you build
Does a vertical garden cause dampness?A vertical garden doesn't have to make a wall damp. What causes damp, where the water goes on a modular pot wall, and what to check before installing.
How much water does a vertical garden use?Why a vertical garden has no single water figure, what changes it, and how a drip line and timer water a modular pot wall.
Why vertical gardens failMost vertical gardens fail for ordinary reasons: the wrong plants, water that stops, and no upkeep. What Delhi's public walls showed in 2018, and how to avoid it.
Looking after a vertical garden in summerHow to keep a vertical garden alive through an Indian summer: water, sun-facing walls, plants that take heat, and what to check before the hottest weeks.
Looking after a vertical garden in the monsoonMonsoon care for a vertical garden: cutting back the watering, drainage, rot and pests, and wind on upper floors.
A vertical garden on a balconyCan your balcony take a vertical garden? Load, water, light, society rules and what a small balcony wall costs with Greenwall.
Plants, ratings and factories
- Plants for living walls
Which plants suit sun, shade and indoor walls.
- Green walls and IGBC or GRIHA
What the rating systems count, and what they don't.
- The 33% green cover condition
What the MPCB condition says, with the source.
- The tree count for your Environment Statement
What a factory reports each year, and when.
- Which trees MPCB asks factories to plant
How species are set in consent orders.
- Vertical garden cost per sq ft
Every rate, what it includes, and worked examples.
See what your wall would cost
Size it online for a first figure, then we measure on site and send a written quote.
