Landscape Living Wall: S11 Building First Floor Studios
Stockwell Street has a “Very Large Internal Living Wall “ in the studios; installed on June 12 2016. It was donated and installed by NEMEC Cascade Garden, a company from the Czech Republic and is used for research and teaching purposes.
It is well documented that indoor plants improve air quality and the well-being of people especially in the work place. The living wall enables testing of a variety of plants for suitability, and their effects on air quality and noise – as well as people’s attitudes to living walls.
The planting design was done by Shelley Mosco (an A&L staff member who has designed numerous living walls across the UK and internationally) and many landscape and architecture students helped with the installation.
A visit to the wall is included in the monthly tour of the Stockwell Street roofs by Benz Kotzen.
- Size: 20m2 (4 metres tall x 5 metres wide.)
- System Type: Modular, regular horticultural compost with added vermiculite.
- Irrigation: Automatic top up system. Approximate daily water usage 0.1 litre / per square meter, thus 2 litres per day
- Lighting: Horticultural halogen / red & blue spectrum.
- Plants: There are approximately 700 plants; 17 different plant species.
| Scientific Name | Common Name |
| *Aglaonema ‘Butterfly’ | Chinese evergreen ‘Butterfly’ |
| Alocasia ‘Polly’ | Elephant’s ear / African mask |
| *Anthurium andraeanum ‘Almera Rood’ | Flamingo flower |
| Asplenium nidus | Bird’s nest fern |
| *Chamaedorea elegans | Dwarf mountain palm |
| *Chlorophytum capense ‘Green’ | Spider plant |
| Cissus alata ‘Ellen Danica’ | Grape ivy ‘Ellen Danica’ |
| Coffea arabica | Arabica coffee |
| Maranta leuconeura var erythroneura | Prayer plant |
| Peperomia caperata ‘Rosso’ | Radiator plant ‘Rosso’ |
| Peperomia rotundifolia var. rotundifolia | Creeping buttons |
| *Philodendron scandens | Heartleaf philodendron |
| Polystichum tsussimense | Korean rock fern |
| *Spathiphyllum ‘Alana’ | Peace lily |
| Stromanthe ‘Horticolor’ | Prayer plant ‘Horticolor’ |
| Tradescantia zebrina | Silver inch plant |
| Zamioculcas zamiifolia | ZZ plant |
* Plants which remove significant amounts of toxins from the air, such as benzene, formaldehyde, trichloroethylene, xylene, toluene and ammonia.