Vertical Turf Fytowall
What is Vertical Turf?
- Vertical Turf is a vertical living Fytowall® full of healthy growing turf. Suitable for indoor or outdoor use. Vertical turf 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. Vertical turf can be used as a feature using different turf varieties. Highlighted using lights or made into different shapes.
Why use Fytowall® for ‘Vertical Turf”?
- Fytowall® is an aminoplast resin foam. This results in a light, but very stable and firm white spongy pH neutralised growing media.
Product Range
However the panel FWT14 is the standard size, which is wrapped in UV stable shade cloth. These panels are planted with a thin near soilless layer of turf. The effect of the shade cloth wrapping is two fold. It adds stability and lowers evaporation. The shade cloth is available in, either black, green or wheat.
Size
- The interchangeable panels come in a standard size of 100 cm long x 49 cm high x 14 cm depth (FWT14). 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 turf 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.
The turf species selected, must be suitable to the region and climatic conditions that is the “Vertical turf” will be grown in.
Fytogreen will plant and grow in all panels for installation of the Fytowall®.
Weight
- The standard panel FWT14 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 Turf?
- 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.
Vertical Turf 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 turf in place?
- download http://www.fytogreen.com.au/products/verticalgarden/design.html
Panel Installation
- Fytogreen Australia will install the turf panels. Pricing for this will be included in our quote.
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.