Green walls have exploded in popularity in recent years, especially in luxury homes and businesses. They&#;re the perfect way to bring nature inside in urban areas and to add lush foliage to small patios and balconies where it&#;s just not possible to maintain real plants.
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If you&#;re thinking about bringing a green wall into your home or business, read on for all the facts so you can make the right purchase!
While their popularity has certainly grown in recent years, the idea was first seen back in the s. A green wall is a wall that is completely covered from roof to ceiling with foliage. You can do a small section of the wall with panels, but a green wall is, traditionally, the entire wall covered in foliage.
There&#;s no doubt that live green walls are an incredible feat of nature &#; but that&#;s what they are, a feat! Setting up a live green wall and, more importantly, maintain it isn&#;t for the faint of heart or a small budget.
True living walls (as in, not just climbing plants or hanging planters) require a special kind of media to grow in with a drip irrigation system, which have to be installed by specialists. They also require the right lighting, either from skylights or artificial lighting that is set up to offer a full colour spectrum.
You&#;ve got to remember that it&#;s not just the purchase of plants but the set up and maintenance of the system. Because there is so little growing media on the wall, the drip irrigation system has to be on constantly to keep the plants moist and fed. This system deals with small holes that must be maintained to keep the system functioning properly, which means you&#;ll often have to pay a maintenance fee to the company who installed the wall.
The plants themselves must also be pruned and replaced from time to time. For a small wall in a home, you may expect to pay a few thousand a year for maintenance, but for a statement wall in a home or business, the costs quickly add up. One Australian green wall company estimate the costs for a 500 square foot live wall costing over $76,000 (£40,000), and that&#;s just for installation. The costs for maintenance for that same wall was estimated at an annual $11,000 (£6,000).
Those figures are enough to scare most away from the idea! Fortunately, an artificial green wall is much more affordable, especially when it comes to ongoing costs &#; which are next-to-nothing. An artificial wall of the same size and quality would cost less than £10,000 with no ongoing costs &#; that&#;s less than 25% of the cost of a living wall. If you choose cheaper panels, then the cost becomes even more affordable.
Artificial green walls share many of the benefits of real green walls, they&#;re:
Better still, they won&#;t damage the structure of your home the way a live green wall may if it&#;s allowed to get out of hand. Climbing plants like ivy do look beautiful when they cover brick, but they also pose a risk to the structural integrity of a home if they are allowed to get out of hand.
Inside, living green walls can produce a lot of moisture, which can encourage mold growth. Artificial green walls don&#;t require any moisture, and so won&#;t drive up your humidity.
Of course, one of the most attractive reasons to purchase artificial plants is the lack of maintenance. Unlike other houseplants, you simply can&#;t properly maintain a living green wall yourself. Imagine investing thousands in a living green wall, deciding to handle the maintenance yourself, and then having it all die on you &#; it doesn&#;t bare thinking about. Understandably, living green wall companies have specialists who manage the maintenance to ensure no customer experiences such catastrophic failure, so you likely won&#;t have the option of caring for a living wall on your own unless you try to set up a DIY system.
It&#;s also important to note that a living green wall simply can&#;t survive forever &#; the plants will only last for as long as their roots have space. The media panels themselves are believed to work for up to 25 years, but it&#;s highly unlikely that any plants will last that long. Outside, they&#;ll be designed to withstand the weather in that one location, so there&#;s a risk the plants won&#;t survive there.
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There really aren&#;t any limits &#; just use your imagination!
Now we know why artificial walls are so preferable to live green walls, let&#;s get into the details of how to purchase one for your home or business. The first aspect we need to talk about the location for your artificial green wall and how that affects the materials you choose.
If your artificial green wall is going to be inside, then you really have no restriction on what your artificial green wall is made of. It won&#;t have to withstand any adverse weather conditions, so fabric leaves will still look as good as new years after installation. However, if your artificial green wall is going to be in a high-light position, such as below a skylight or opposite a glass wall, then you may want to pay attention to the next section.
If your artificial green wall is going to be outside, then you need to consider the materials the artificial plants are made from carefully. While almost any artificial green wall panel will withstand rain, ice, and wind, (unless it&#;s made from silk), they are often more vulnerable to the sun. UV rays can quickly fade the colour from artificial plants if they aren&#;t protected. If you are buying an artificial green wall for an external wall, make sure the artificial plants contain some UV protection. There are UV sprays and other things you can use to protect artificial plants from the effects of UV, but if you&#;re buying panels for outside, make your life easier and ensure they made from synthetic materials with UV-protection in the material itself.
There are no rules on where you can and can&#;t set up an artificial green wall &#; besides keeping it out of the way from obvious fire hazards, you really can choose any wall or flat surface.
Just like real green walls, you have a lot of choice when it comes to what kind of plants and foliage you want to include on your green wall. The one caveat is that you&#;ll want to stick with the same combination of plants throughout unless you use different panels in a pattern. As you&#;d expect, the more intricate the design, the more expensive the panel, so if you&#;re working on a budget, you may want to choose one of the cheaper designs for your artificial green wall.
When choosing the type of artificial green wall you want for your home or business, consider what effect you want it to have. Do you want it to look tropical? With plenty of ferns and mosses like a forest? Something low profile, or something with plenty of volume?
Something like our artificial ivy green wall is a great budget-friendly option for small spaces, while our garden fern artificial green wall is a great choice if you&#;re looking for a wall with various types of foliage for a natural look.
Take your time here and think about what will work best for your space and budget, not just what you like best in the pictures. Remember that an entire wall of artificial green wall panels will make a big statement, no matter what kind of panel you choose.
When you pay tens of thousands of pounds for a company to install your green wall, they&#;re going to supply absolutely everything, including the manpower complete the project. When you&#;re DIYing your artificial green wall, you&#;ll need to think about how you&#;re going to fix the panels to your wall. This will depend some on where you buy your panels the fixtures on the panel itself.
Most panels have screw holes so you can fix the panel directly to your wall, but you can also fix the panels to fences, trellis, and other items if it works best for you. Most of the time, these costs will be minimal, but it&#;s a good idea to know how you&#;re going to fix your panels in place before they arrive. Screws work well for wood, but don&#;t forget something as simple as zip ties or wire ties provide a suitable solution.
If you&#;re planning to move in the near future, or are renting, these latter options will likely provide a better option than drilling numerous holes into the interior or exterior wall of your home or place of business.
If your artificial green wall is inside your home or business, all you need to do is dust it from time to time. When you&#;re cleaning, simply take a long duster and fluff it around the leaves to dislodge dust and remove any cobwebs. Outside, you likely won&#;t have to do any maintenance at all!
Moving a live green wall likely won&#;t be easy, but moving an artificial green wall is &#; simply unfix the panels and move them to their new location &#; they&#;ll look just as good there as they did in their previous home!
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Our outdoor green wall panels come with a 5-year warranty, that protects against colour fade. If you have dusted regularly, you can likely apply a UV-protection spray once those 5 years are up to further extend the lifetime use of the artificial wall panels. If your panels are in the shade or indoors, they may last for much longer than that!
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In this blog, Sunwing collects top concerns and solutions on artificial vertical garden or artificial green walls from clients both online and offline.
The artificial garden wall is a wall decoration designed according to the needs of users by splicing individual foliage branches together. The branches increase the sense of hierarchy and diversity of the artificial plant wall. Here&#;re 6 facts you must know about artificial plants wall.
The artificial vertical garden is a kind of simulated living plants wall panels which is made of premium PE materials. To make these green wall panels last outdoors for commercial projects, artificial plants manufacturers will also add UV protection or fire-retardant additive. The panels can be PE structures or iron structures for different purposes.
Some important SGS artificial plants certificates are required like UV protection certificates, none heavy metal reports, and fire-retarded test reports for large commercial projects.
Unlike living plants which require severe living environments and maintenance, artificial green walls or vertical garden panels are easier to install and more cost-effective with the least maintenance like water, pesticide, or fertilizer. There will be no problem like allergies to people.
For different local markets, there are demands for different artificial vertical gardens of various styles. If you need unique styles for local customers, you&#;d better choose a factory supplier with designers to create special artificial green wall arrangements for your business.
With regards to artificial green walls in global markets, most artificial plants like artificial grass or artificial green wall plants are sourced or imported from China. The quality may vary for different artificial green walls. Buyers or importers of artificial plants need to consider how to choose the right and responsible Chinese artificial plants exporters or suppliers for their business.
The artificial vertical garden is easy to install on any wall surface.
Concrete wall:
With electric drills, screws, or expansion tubes, or best with iron grid panels.
Fences:
With zip tiles, you can easily attach these plant panels or fences for privacy or aestheticism.
Small scale installation can refer to the video below:
For large projects, pls consult our team or local installers.
Of course, artificial vertical gardens can be removed from the originally installed place and attached to other wall surfaces without any damage.
Step 1. Prepare the following cleaning tools: Feather duster, Soft microfiber or cotton cloths, Mild detergent or gentle dish soap, Spray bottle.
Step 2. Use a feather duster to remove dust and spider webs from the surface of artificial hedges.
Step 3. As for some tough dirt, grime, oil that you cannot easily wipe away by the feather duster, you need to choose non-abrasive materials to do a further cleaning.
Most of the artificial vertical garden or artificial green wall plants can last or be fade-resistant for at least 3 years outdoors and 3-5 years indoors.
Of course, the artificial vertical garden wall can be manufactured to be long-lasting and evergreen with UV additives to be UV proof in harsh weather outdoors.
Many artificial green wall plants factory in China is in need of global dealers or sales agents worldwide. If you are in this industry and consider cooperating an artificial plants suppliers, join an artificial green wall dealership will be a great idea.
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