If you live in a flat or apartment with no garden of your own, it's a blessing to have a balcony or small roof terrace. These enable you to enjoy a private outdoor space where you can relax. You may find, though that they feel very much an urban setting,...
At Rosewood, all the living walls we design and install are pretty much hassle-free. First of all, we use low-maintenance planting. For example, we design our walls with a great mix of evergreen and semi-evergreen plants, so they look great all year round. Watering is also simple. The troughs we...
If you run a commercial wedding venue, you'll obviously be wanting to make sure it's as attractive as possible to couples. We can help! We believe that living walls add the wow factor to weddings (and other events). No matter how great your venue, a stunning wall of plants makes...
When we design a living wall, we like to use plants that provide a variety of colours and textures. Most of the time we choose evergreens and semi-evergreens. That way our vertical gardens look wonderful all year round. However, seeing these amazing spring flower living walls shows how single species...
As living wall specialists, we're very much aware of how urban greening makes cities better in so many ways. If you don't know the term, urban greening refers to creating places where plants can grow within cities or towns. These urban developments often have little natural green space left, so...
Do you belong to one of the third of UK households who live in rented accommodation? Home ownership is decreasing and most young people are finding it difficult to get on the housing ladder. This means that, sadly, many garden-lovers don't have a garden to call their own. Tenants in...
If the freezing weather is bringing you down, we have some ideas for nurturing wellbeing at home or in the workplace. Your family will benefit too, or the people you work with - and these are simple solutions. You are no doubt aware that nature in your environment is good...
For us, putting up living walls for events is always exciting, particularly when the festive season is approaching! If you run an events venue, a green wall can make a huge difference to the way your space looks. Living walls provide the attractive natural vibe of fresh flowers or plants,...
When considering some kind of green wall for your home or business, you may have wondered about the different possibilities. Perhaps you want a living plant wall, also known as a vertical garden? Or what about a moss wall, made either of dried moss, or preserved moss? All of these...
Every month we like to share some art for garden-lovers. Since January we've been showing plates from a 19th century book of plant engravings, The Temple of Flora. The illustrated volume accompanied Robert John Thornton's botanical masterpiece explaining the theories of the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus. The book was undoubtedly...