Putney Greenwall South-west- Residential Garden Project
This green wall has the main function of trialing Sydney local native plants on a vertical garden in a residential backyard setting and accommodating native pollinators and predators with the addition of insect homes with several of my “Bee hotels”
The wall was constructed in March 2015.
Stages for the Putney Greenwall South-West
33.8270° S, 151.1060°E
Site analysis:
This wall has been placed on an outdoor shed under the overhang of the roof. It is next to a door and a lawn area.
Climate/Aspect:
This wall gets most of its light in the afternoon. With light limited to a couple of hours from the cooler seasons. The wall receives no moisture from rainfall. Warm summers cool winters.
Function:
This wall was designed to trial various local native plants to see how they would perform on a living wall. The habitat border was installed to see if pollinators and predators would visit or live on the wall. Its functions are primarily research and biodiversity.
Water:
Water is accessible for irrigation. The wall is watered by drip irrigation daily by a timer for three minutes and hand watered in the summer months when required.
Panel construction:
Two vegetative wall panels where constructed to fit the wall with drip irrigation and filled with a greenwall composite. The habitat framing was made beforehand.
Native Bee & Pollinator DIY Hotels on a door and individual smaller bamboo and wooden logs stacked in a side panel in the Putney vertical green wall garden by Gecko Plantscapes
Installation:
The panels are fixed onto timber beams attached onto the outside wall. Irrigation is hooked up and tested.
Planting:
The plants are sourced from local native nurseries
I have used Dendrobium kingianums on the top panel (not a local) but it loves being on a wall and has a great flower.
All the plants used have been tube stock size.
Planting should be carried out on a cooler day preferably moist no wind as the plants are very vulnerable at this stage. The more plants on the wall the quicker they establish
Establishment Maintenance and the follow up:
As the wall is in my backyard I have the added convenience of monitoring its health!
Some species have failed, others have thrived – some have amazed me.
Plant selection is crucial and research I have carried out shows me that the plants of Australia are suitable for Green infrastructure projects.
The Bee Hotels have been a great success.
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