The Wallflower vertical garden is a modular planter system that has been designed to enable city dwellers to grow their own organic vegetables and other plants on sunny walls where ground space is limited. The system was designed by one of my favorite Cape Town designers, Haldane Martin — the mastermind behind the Fiela Feather Lamp and whose home we featured a while back: House Tour: Haldane's White Nest.
The nested fractal pattern is made of three sizes of wall-mounted containers that integrates hexagonal trellising and a branching, drip irrigation system. The planters are made from recycled roto-moulded polyethylene plastic and the mounting hardware is made from galvanized and powder coated mild steel.
The house on the rendered image is the award winning community housing project designed by Luyanda Mpahlwa, for more info see the Treehugger article.
Haldane will be revealing the first working prototypes of Wallflower vertical garden on Salon PrivEacute; at Design Indaba Expo 2011, and is planning to fund the tooling up for the project using Kickstarter, an innovative funding platform for creatives. We will keep you posted!
For more information see Haldane Martin & Design Indaba.
Images: Haldane Martin, Find Design
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Gorgeous! I love the odd perspective the pots make. But how heavy are these things?
I like the building not a fan of the planters.
I like the look, but how the heck to you get to the top ones to replant them? Or to water them? Outside pots need watering every day in the summer. Great aesthetics, but I'm not so clear on the function.
I really like this! It says they have a drip water system. I guess you would need a ladder to repot them or to harvest any veg or herbs
Yeah -- I love plants but the planters are just weird. Maybe part of it is the fake "perspective" that they seem to give the building.
THe vertical garden looks like a painting!
lovedecor: it IS a painting... that's why it looks so weird.
Hm... I wonder what it would do to the side of your house. I guess you could hose it down every year.
I am more interested in the small house!
I am pretty sure I do not want to see this on my house. I wonder how one is supposed to pick the veggies from the top of the modular system? Totally impractical.
Doesn't anyone realize the pictures are just a simulation, a concept rendered in CGI?
This is the coolest thing I have ever seen in gardening. I would do it in a minute, but I live in a condo, and my terrace walls are all glass.
This doesn't seem that practical for growing vegetables because the pots are so small and shallow. Herbs would probably work, but most vegetables need quite a bit of depth of soil to do well.
I am shocked by the lack of imagination of many of the comments! No, it may not be practical as a veg garden as shown here (though I don't see any corn stalks shooting out of the drawing, hello - ever heard of salad greens, people?). Certainly it has potential to soften the edges of an otherwise urban environment, as well as being just an example of wicked good design. Last I checked those ugly as sin "wooly pockets" are quite popular.
A big raspberry to the haters. Shouldn't you be out hosing off your vinyl siding?
I LUV LUV LUV THIS WALLFLOWER PLANTER AND HAVE TO HAVE IT! I LIVE IN A MID CENTURY MODERN HIGHRISE W A LARGE ROOFTOP TERRACE-IT GETS LOTS OF SUN/HEAT DURING THE DALLAS SUMMER AND IS PERFECT FOR MY SUCCULENTS AND CATUS! THE MODERN DESIGN FITS IN PERFECTLY W MY NEW B&B CANASTA OUTDOOR FURNITURE/TABLES BY PATRICIA URQUILA. BRAVO!