How To... Trellis Moss Garden from Lowe's

Big box home improvement store, Lowe's, gets hands-on and shares with us a how-to on making a trellis moss garden. The vertical garden uses moss and drought-tolerant succulents, requiring only an occasional light watering with a spray bottle...

The only thing we would do differently is we wouldn't use a trellis off-the-shelf. We'd make a much simpler rectangular frame for the backing. One commenter on the Lowe's page even suggests repurposing an old twin bed spring, which would work just fine for our simple rectangular appearance. We'd follow the directions from there: Trellis Moss Garden from Lowe's Idea Library.

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To be honest, it looks ugly.

posted by vegetarcat on June 17th 2009 at 5:19pm
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With a little thought in design....I think you could make it look nice and it be a great addition to a patio/porch/garden area.

posted by baileyb on June 17th 2009 at 7:43pm
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Yuck! Sorry. It just looks like a wall of vomit.

posted by clampers on June 18th 2009 at 9:10am
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It kind of looks like a Michael's craft store project.... no offense! Sometimes there is room for stuff like this... I guess? Maybe in the right context... like adding color/green to the side of a brick building?

posted by tracipants on June 18th 2009 at 3:14pm
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Flora Grubb offers some better inspiration for a good concept. And yes, this one has too much moss, doing it a great injustice.

Flora Grubb's vertical garden:
http://www.floragrubb.com/press/index.php

posted by sddullanty on June 19th 2009 at 8:33am
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