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Thursday, March 24th, 2011
images courtesy of The Inner Garden
We often say that we provide the tools, and our customers use them the way that suits them best. This turned out to be exactly the case for Joan Lynch of The Inner Garden of Pittsford, VT. She wondered why she needed a water machine to connect to the irrigation system of a TerraScreen Interior Greenwall. She suggested to Jeff Crean of our distributor Bisco that a pump sprayer would work just as well. While we hadn’t considered it, we couldn’t think of a reason why it wouldn’t work.
Joan with her pump sprayer
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Tags: Irrigation, Pump Sprayer, TerraScreen, Vermont
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Photos courtesy of Farthingale Stone
In the Spring of 2010, the City of Hugoton, Kansas formed a streetscape committee and began working on downtown beautification. Under consideration for redevelopment were 2 blocks of Main Street and 6th Street in the downtown area. Click to continue »
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Tags: CWM Modular, Iron MMP, Kansas, MMP finish, rectangles, streetscape, Wilshire Collection
Monday, November 22nd, 2010
Wilshire Collection trash receptacle and ash tray at Nordstrom, Santa Monica
We supplied Wilshire Collection planters, trash receptacles and ash trays for the brand new Nordstrom store at the Santa Monica Place shopping center at the end of the Santa Monica 3rd St. Promenade. If you’ve ever been around the promenade, you’ll know the kind of foot traffic this gets – it is probably one of the higher-traffic locations we’ve ever done (and that includes 34th St. in NYC!). We worked with the Callison Partnership, who chose the FRP planters in our Iron Metal Matched Paint. Click to continue »
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Tags: Ash/Trash, California, MMP, Trash Can, Wilshire Collection
Monday, November 1st, 2010
photos courtesy of Blondies Treehouse
You may recall the post that we featured here, about this Whole Foods store located in Lake Grove, NY. As we mentioned in that post, the installation of the initial 128 sq. ft. of living wall went so well that the owner decided to expand the wall to the entire area. Blondies Treehouse of Mamaroneck, NY, was the contractor that did both the intial as well as the subsequent installation. They’ve been extremely pleased with the way the VertiGreen Hybrid it has been growing in. We’re hoping to get installation images from another, much larger installation that they’ve recently done soon.
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Tags: Grocery stores, living walls, New York, VertiGreen Hybrid, Whole Foods
Monday, October 25th, 2010
photos courtesy of City Plantscaping
We received an email today that speaks for itself:
Just wanted to thank you guys for your help. We purchased a TerraScreen through The Plant Ranch in Denver. We had to meet a deadline for a grand opening and because of your help we made it! At the grand-opening people were gathered around the wall, smelling the herbs, talking about how to use them and generally really getting into it.
The email, from Jean-Pierre Sijmons of City Plantscaping, was great. They installed a double-sided TerraScreen with herbs on one side, and tropicals on the other. Again, directly from his description:
City Plantscaping installed a movable edible wall at the new LEED designed, Total Longterm Care state-of-the-art headquarters in Denver.
The wall is placed in their lunch room to provide the employees with herbs and vegetables and show TLC’s commitment to sustainability. The wall is double sided and has besides a herb vegetable side, it also a decorative tropical plant side. The wall can be easily moved and used as a divider in the lunchroom.
the "other" side!
Our thanks to Jean-Pierre and our friends at the Plant Ranch!!
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Tags: Colorado, edible wall, Plant Ranch, TerraScreen
Thursday, October 21st, 2010
Interior Living Wall at 555 Long Wharf, New Haven, CT
John Kruzshak and his crew at Evergreen Environments in Sandy Hook, CT, just completed the installation of this fantastic living wall in a building in New Haven, CT. They were kind enough to share photos of the process of how they did it – more after the jump…
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Tags: assembly, Connecticut, Evergreen Environments, living walls, TerraScreen
Monday, October 4th, 2010
All photographs courtesy of Town & Gardens Ltd.
Meet Hanna – and welcome to her wall. Not her wall, technically – it belongs to a commercial client in Manhattan. It graces the interior of their SoHo neighborhood offices. But Hanna is a senior designer with Town & Gardens, Ltd., and this is her baby. She’s justifiably proud of her work. More images after the jump…
The upper story of the wall, shown from the second level
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Tags: Commercial, New York, TerraScreen, Town & Gardens
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Joe Zazzera of Plant Solutions in Scottsdale just sent us over a link from an article that was just published on the www.drweil.com website. If you follow this blog you may have seen this post about Joe’s TerraScreen wall in his conference room, or this post about his exterior VGM edible wall/vegetable garden. The VGM edible wall just won an award at the Calscape Expo awards in San Diego, but we’ll save that for another post.
Joe has been experimenting with nearly all the different living wall systems out there, and coming up with a few ideas of his own. He installed a large living wall at a restaurant in Orange County, CA, which somehow got the attention of the staff of the Dr. Weil MD website. Dr. Weil, for those who don’t recognize him, is a best-selling health and wellness guru. According to Joe, the editorial staff of the website came over to his facility and took an extensive tour, learning about the different wall concepts. Their favorite system, and the one mentioned first in the article, was the TerraScreen interior living wall.
A few of the highlights they mentioned:
- Plants sit in individual plastic pots, each held within a larger wall-mounted metal frame
- Can be built with attached irrigation tubing or plants can be hand-watered individually
- No extra wall waterproofing needed
- Typical uses: behind a reception desk or in an office lobby
- Professionally installed cost: $120 per square foot
We couldn’t have said it better ourselves! Thanks to Plant Solutions and www.drweil.com.
- Plants sit in individual plastic pots, each held within a larger wall-mounted metal frame
- Can be built with attached irrigation tubing or plants can be hand-watered individually
- No extra wall waterproofing needed
- Typical uses: behind a reception desk or in an office lobby
- Professionally installed cost: $120 per square foot
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Tags: Arizona, in the news, Plant Solutions, TerraScreen
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
University Village Starbucks is one of the busiest in Seattle
Most have heard of the problems Starbucks Coffee stores went through several years ago, leading to significant changes to their chain- retraining employees, shuttering underperforming stores (including one near us), re-emphasizing the coffee experience, etc. We were excited to be contacted by Starbucks’ Seattle-based design team to work with them on their new store concept.
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Tags: Green Building, Starbucks, Washington, Wilshire Collection
Friday, June 25th, 2010
All photos courtesy of Blondie's Treehouse
We’d been working on a living wall project for this new Whole Foods grocery store on Long Island for the past few months with Blondie’s Treehouse of Mamaroneck, NY. The building had been approved with a living wall element as an integral part of the facade, so the store couldn’t open without it.
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Tags: assembly, Blondie's Treehouse, living walls, New York, VertiGreen Hybrid, Whole Foods
