For some, having a large blank wall in a home might be soothing, but others feel the need to fill such spaces with a showstopper like original art, or maybe a gallery wall or a beautiful piece of furniture. But what about a wall of … plants?
Vertical gardens, essentially landscapes installed on walls with watering systems built in, were once rarely found outside of larger corporate and public building spaces like Google, Symantec or Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Over the past few years, that’s changed as more and more residents have started installing “living walls” in their homes.
David Brenner, founder of Habitat Horticulture and who is known for creating massive living walls at some of Silicon Valley’s biggest tech companies, said his work is now spent busily installing outdoor and indoor dramatic living walls at homes throughout the Bay Area, as well as other…