Not only do they look striking—as proven by the 15 vertical garden ideas below—living walls can actually make you healthier, both physically and mentally. Research has shown that air-purifying green ...

It's time to think outside the flower box. For many homeowners, a love of the outdoors clashes with the realities of small spaces. How do you plant a garden when you hardly have the space for your ...

Long relegated to corporate atriums and hotel lobbies, living green walls, or vertical gardens, are becoming increasingly popular in homes. Proponents of the lush walls of plants say they provide ...

A vertical garden can be used to create a living wall. It's a striking feature for your home and can also purify the air and reduce outside noise, among other benefits. Getty Images The word “garden” ...

David Brenner has a different perspective on gardens. “If you look at something green and growing, it does something to you, physiologically — restores your mind, lowers blood pressure,” he says, ...

His vertical living wall garden can even move indoors, providing fresh herbs, produce, or colorful foliage and flowers throughout dreary winter months at a reasonable cost, a trend this spot-on ...

At the industrial Portland warehouse of solar-power and green-roof purveyor SolTerra Systems, 1,200 plants do the dusting. “We used to mop twice a week,” says SolTerra president Brian Heather of ...

Every month should be Earth Month. As more people realize how sacred the environment truly is, some are choosing to bring nature into their homes with aesthetically pleasing living green walls or ...

In the 1980s, French botanist Patrick Blanc modernized the concept of vertical gardens by creating vegetation systems affixed to walls. Since then, living walls have sprouted up in urban ...

The Urban Farming Office in Ho Chih Minh City, Vietnam, seeks to return green space to the city using the building’s facade as a structure for vertical urban ...

David Brenner, principal and lead designer of Habitat Horticulture, is photographed in front of his creation the "living wall", a plant installation on the third-floor terrace at SFMOMA in San ...