Written by Chris Lyon on February 5th, 2010
- 36″ x 36″ x 31″ Deepstream IPE planter with Tournesol thermoplastic liner
We work closely with several other manufacturers of pots, planters and containers, and thought it might be interesting to show the results of our collaboration. Deepstream Designs creates wonderful planters using extruded aluminum legs and IPE wood slats (as shown above), or resin and composite panels. We provide them with our standard thermoplastic planter liners (either with or without container irrigation), or in this case, custom-manufactured welded planter liners.
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Written by Chris Lyon on February 3rd, 2010
image courtesy CBS Channel 8 - San Diego
Greenscaped Buildings, a good customer and green building guru in San Diego, is in the news again. Their local CBS affiliate did a segment on the edible wall he planted at his facility last March (view here). It has several good views of his VGM edible garden, but also shows a row of VGM ready for planting (the Urban Core project, I believe).
The Pizzeria Mozza project (you can see the VGM growing in during the video) is now scheduled to be installed at the end of February. They’ve told us that the plants are getting nice and full, just the way the client wants them.
We’ve also just received an order for a fantastic VGM living wall designed by Rios Clemente Hale in Los Angeles. The project, a private residence in Beverly Hills, will be installed by James H. Cowan & Associates of Malibu. The design uses the VGM integrated into a fountain wall, over a fountain basin with planter islands. We’re hoping that we’ll be able to show you images once this truly fabulous project is installed.
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Tags: California, Greenscaped Buildings, in the news, living walls, Pizzeria Mozza, VGM
Written by Chris Lyon on January 21st, 2010
Several people who saw the last post were interested in seeing more of the VertiGreen™ Hybrid. We’ll be officially releasing the marketing pieces and putting up the webpage next week, but here are a few images of the first units.
The first look – VertiGreen Hybrid 48×48, 10″ module shown
This view shows the panel with the VGM™ plant growing module installed. The module would planted on its back (either with or without the panel), and turned vertical after a month or two. The vines & climbers will only take a few months to cover a panel. By having the module installed in each trellis panel, there is virtually no limit to the height to which a trellis wall can be planted. We’ll be integrating an irrigation system into the framework which will allow for simple, low hassle maintenance. While a monolithic planting will make a beautiful living wall, imagine what can be done with varying bloom patterns, colors, and foliage colors!
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Written by Chris Lyon on January 19th, 2010
For those that may be attending the New England Grows show Feb 3- 5 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center-
In addition to our existing products for putting landscapes in, on and around buildings, you’ll have the chance to see our newest living wall product, the VertiGreen™ Hybrid pre-grown trellis system. The hybrid allows us to create commercial-grade living walls at half the cost. You may have seen our post last month regarding the patent application finally going in – this will be your first chance to see the product in person.
Our regional sales representative, Brian Mitalo, will be at the show, and he’ll also have copies of our new 80-page complete catalog, “Between Landscape & Architecture”. You can find him in the booth of our local distributor,
Bisco Irrigation - #2423. Bisco has been a great support in the area, and we appreciate the space they are providing us!
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Written by Chris Lyon on January 15th, 2010
1st Place 10x20 Booth Award
Congratulations to Tournesol Siteworks TerraScreen distributor Bullis Bromeliads, who won the prestigious 1st place booth award at the 2010 TPIE in Ft. Lauderdale. Click to continue »
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Written by Chris Lyon on January 14th, 2010
We might not have made the BuildingGreen.com editor’s top 10 list, but our VGM and TerraScreen living wall products were named as part of their People’s Choice Top 10 GreenSpec Products for 2009. They compiled the list as follows:
Simple analysis of our website traffic statistics reveals which of those 2,000-plus products you read, researched, and generally clicked on most during 2009.
We’ve garnered a lot of good press for the developments in the living wall business thus far, but the BuildingGreen.com rankings showed that it’s not just the media that are interested. While we’d be flattered to think that this is entirely due to our great products (and really good press releases), clearly the architectural and design community is very interested in living wall systems! We’ll see if the attention continues to build in 2010.
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Written by Chris Lyon on January 11th, 2010
© Caron Golden, www.sandiegofoodstuff.com, 2010
Greenscaped Buildings, our partner that is installing, among other things, edible living walls at Mario Batali’s Pizzeria Mozza in Los Angeles and another at Urban Core, a non-profit in San Diego, passed along this link to a San Diego foodie blog.
Caron Golden, of “To Market, To Market, with San Diego Foodstuff”, visited Jim Mumford and took the opportunity to review his edible wall work (much thanks for her permission to reprint the section shown below): Click to continue »
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Written by Chris Lyon on January 6th, 2010
The FNGLA’s Tropical Plant Industry Exhibition will be taking place January 14th-16th in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Tournesol distributor Primescape Products will be exhibiting in booths 3003/230 & 237, and Bullis Bromeliads in #917 will be using our TerraScreen® Interior greenwall system prominently in their booth. Stop by and ask them about using TerraScreen with their bromeliads!
As part of the TPIE short course there will be a “Green Walls Workshop” on Friday morning, from 8:00-12:15. Organized by Joy Dorst, the course will feature McCrae Anderson speaking on his new greenwall system from 9:45-10:30, then will be organized as a panel. Tournesol Siteworks will be represented on the panel by our distributor James Loper from Reflections of Nature Nursery/Biotecture of Yulee, FL. Many of the different manufacturers of living wall systems will be present, so it should be an interesting hour!
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Written by Chris Lyon on January 5th, 2010
We’re back, after a break between Christmas and New Year’s Day. After a week enjoying the green paradise of Costa Rica, I’m ready to go with my batteries recharged. I hope you feel the same.
Green walls/living walls managed to make several blogger’s “top green building trends for 2010″ (courtesy of Goodworks) and “green building predictions for 2010” (courtesy of BuildDirect). Maybe this will be the year that they move into the mainstream as more installations are built.
Living walls have the distinct advantage over green roofs that they are visible, and offer the community continuous reinforcement of the green building message. As we bring the costs down on commercial-grade living wall and green facade systems, we expect the enthusiasm to continue to grow.
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Written by Chris Lyon on December 23rd, 2009
We’ve just filed a patent on our new VertiGreen™ Hybrid product! It cuts the cost of a living wall in half, without sacrificing the durability or creating a long-term maintenance nightmare. Click to continue »
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