{"id":1420,"date":"2017-08-25T09:13:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T08:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/fachsupport\/?page_id=1420"},"modified":"2017-08-25T09:13:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T08:13:41","slug":"landscape-living-wall","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/designsupport\/greenspaces\/landscape-living-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Landscape Living Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Landscape Living Wall: \u00a0S11 Building First Floor Studios<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1252\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/designsupport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/03\/living-wall.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/designsupport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/03\/living-wall.png 650w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/designsupport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/03\/living-wall-300x185.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stockwell Street has a \u201cVery Large Internal Living Wall \u201c in the studios; installed on June 12 2016.\u00a0 It was donated and installed by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cascadegarden.co.uk\/\">NEMEC Cascade Garden<\/a>,\u00a0a company from the Czech Republic\u00a0and is used for research and teaching purposes.<\/p>\n<p>It is well documented that indoor plants improve air quality\u00a0and the well-being of people especially in the work place. The living wall enables testing of a variety of plants for\u00a0suitability, and their effects on\u00a0air quality and noise \u2013 as well as people\u2019s attitudes to living walls.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0planting design was done by Shelley Mosco (an A&amp;L staff member\u00a0who has designed numerous living\u00a0walls across the UK and internationally)\u00a0and many landscape and architecture students helped with the installation.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0A visit to the\u00a0wall is included in the monthly tour of the Stockwell Street roofs by Benz Kotzen.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Size:\u00a020m<sup>2\u00a0<\/sup>(4 metres tall x 5 metres wide.)<\/li>\n<li>System Type: Modular, regular horticultural compost with added vermiculite.<\/li>\n<li>Irrigation:\u00a0Automatic top up system. Approximate daily water usage 0.1 litre \/ per square meter, thus 2 litres per day<\/li>\n<li>Lighting:\u00a0Horticultural halogen \/ red &amp; blue spectrum.<\/li>\n<li>Plants:\u00a0There are approximately 700 plants; 17 different plant species.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table width=\"438\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"260\"><strong>Scientific Name<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"219\"><strong>Common Name<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"260\"><em>*Aglaonema \u2018Butterfly\u2019<\/em><\/td>\n<td width=\"219\">Chinese evergreen \u2018Butterfly\u2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"260\"><em>Alocasia \u2018Polly\u2019<\/em><\/td>\n<td width=\"219\">Elephant\u2019s ear \/ African mask<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"260\"><em>*Anthurium andraeanum \u2018Almera Rood\u2019<\/em><\/td>\n<td width=\"219\">Flamingo flower<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"260\"><em>Asplenium nidus<\/em><\/td>\n<td width=\"219\">Bird\u2019s nest fern<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"260\"><em>*Chamaedorea elegans<\/em><\/td>\n<td width=\"219\">Dwarf mountain palm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"260\"><em>*Chlorophytum capense \u2018Green\u2019<\/em><\/td>\n<td width=\"219\">Spider plant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"260\"><em>Cissus alata \u2018Ellen Danica\u2019\u00a0<\/em><\/td>\n<td width=\"219\">Grape ivy \u2018Ellen Danica\u2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"260\"><em>Coffea arabica<\/em><\/td>\n<td width=\"219\">Arabica coffee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"260\"><em>Maranta leuconeura var erythroneura<\/em><\/td>\n<td width=\"219\">Prayer plant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"260\"><em>Peperomia caperata \u2018Rosso\u2019<\/em><\/td>\n<td width=\"219\">Radiator plant \u2018Rosso\u2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"260\"><em>Peperomia rotundifolia var. rotundifolia<\/em><\/td>\n<td width=\"219\">Creeping buttons<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"260\"><em>*Philodendron scandens<\/em><\/td>\n<td width=\"219\">Heartleaf philodendron<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"260\"><em>Polystichum tsussimense<\/em><\/td>\n<td width=\"219\">Korean rock fern<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"260\"><em>*Spathiphyllum \u2018Alana\u2019<\/em><\/td>\n<td width=\"219\">Peace lily<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"260\"><em>Stromanthe \u2018Horticolor\u2019<\/em><\/td>\n<td width=\"219\">Prayer plant \u2018Horticolor\u2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"260\"><em>Tradescantia zebrina<\/em><\/td>\n<td width=\"219\">Silver inch plant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"260\"><em>Zamioculcas zamiifolia<\/em><\/td>\n<td width=\"219\">ZZ plant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>* Plants which remove significant amounts of toxins from the air, such as benzene, formaldehyde, trichloroethylene, xylene, toluene and ammonia.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landscape Living Wall: \u00a0S11 Building First Floor Studios Stockwell Street has a \u201cVery Large Internal Living Wall \u201c in the studios; installed on June 12 2016.\u00a0 It was donated and installed by\u00a0NEMEC Cascade Garden,\u00a0a company from the Czech Republic\u00a0and is used for research and teaching purposes. It is well documented&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/designsupport\/greenspaces\/landscape-living-wall\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"parent":1244,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1420","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/designsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/designsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/designsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/designsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/designsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/designsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1420\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/designsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/designsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}