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What is the Vertical Garden?
  • The Vertical Garden is a vertical living Fytowall® full of healthy growing plants. Suitable for indoor or outdoor use. The vertical garden consists of series of Fytowall® panels. This could be one panel high covering many metres in length or 10 panels high (5 m) and only 1 m in length. These panels offer more, with the ability to be interchangeable. The vertical garden can be used as a feature using different plant types or colours. Highlighted using lights or made into different shapes.



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Why use Fytowall® in the ‘Vertical Garden”?
  • Fytowall® is an aminoplast resin foam. This results in a light, but very stable and firm white spongy pH neutralised growing media.



Product Range:

The Vertical Garden has a range of panels.
  • However the panel FWG14 is the standard size, which is wrapped in UV stable shade cloth. These panels are planted with a series of individual plants. The effect of the shade cloth wrapping is three fold. It adds stability, lowers evaporation and gives an opportunity to change the background colour to, either black, green or wheat/sandstone.



Size:
  • The interchangeable panels come in a standard size of 100 cm long x 49 cm high x 14 cm depth (FWG14). This equates to 0.49 m2 in area and 68 litres of volume. We can also custom make panels of different lengths to suit a project.



How do I get plants to grow on the Fytowall® foam panels?
  • Fytowall® has a balanced air/water ratio over the panel height which enables plants to grow in both the top and the bottom of the panel.
    Numerous species have been tested for their suitability in growing vertically and typical ground cover type species are most suitable.
    Fytogreen will plant and grow in all panels for installation of the Fytowall®.



Weight:
  • The standard panel FWG14 has an absolute saturated weight of 44 kg per 0.5 m2 or 88 kg per m2 without plants. However under normal watering conditions, you could expect the panels to be at approximately 25-35% saturation by volume, ie. holding 25-35 litres of water and nutrients. This equates to 12.5-17.5 kg per 0.5 m2 panel. Plant weight per panel will depend on the species and age, but when fully grown, you could allow 12 kg per m2 for plants like mondo grass up to 24 kg for turf panels.
    Are there limits to Vertical Garden panels?
    The interchangeable panels must be placed lying on their long edge. This means that the maximum vertical height of one panel can only be 50 cm. Each panel must have a physical barrier between it and the one above or below. This applies to a wall 1 m high or 5 m high. The minimum gap required between panels is 20 mm, enabling irrigation lines and panel support.


The Vertical Garden can be grown in exterior or interior spaces.
The overriding factor will be plant selection and available UV light.


How do I hold the Fytowall® vertical garden in place?
  • download http://www.fytogreen.com.au/products/verticalgarden/design.html





Where a picture frame is required to finish the garden as “living art”, different options will be available on request.

Irrigation Design and Installation
  • Fytogreen Australia offers a separate service to design and install the required irrigation system.
    Things to keep in mind are that each panel requires water to be applied to the top of the panel. As there is no potting mix/soil, fertiliser has to be applied through fertigation. This is fertiliser mixed with water and applied in liquid form through the irrigation lines.
    Each tray has to have the ability to take excess water away, either dripping to a drain below the wall or from each tray individually.



Fytowall Herb garden
Homegrown herbs
The lack of urban space and a serious water shortage has made the vegetable patch almost a thing of the past. An ingenious new product in Australia is the Fytowall vertical garden that can easily turn a tiny outdoor space into a blooming oasis. The Fytowall garden system is attached to a host wall with a frame that contains a series of panels. The plants chosen are those that would be suitab