Fantastic vertical gardens, part II
Since Biblical times, gardens have been horizontal, with flowers and plants sprouting out of the ground.
Patrick Blanc has turned that whole notion on its side, literally. Mr. Blanc is the inventor of the vertical garden, also known as the living (or green) wall.
Mr. Blanc, 58, is a botanist with France's National Center for Scientific Research. He also has a private practice designing gardens.
Among the more than 250 he has installed around the world, his most famous are at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, the Caixa Forum Museum in Madrid and the French embassy in New Delhi.
A celebrity among horticulturalists, he's even got a new kind of begonia named after him, Begonia blancii, after discovering it two years ago while trekking through a rainforest in the Philippines.
| Patrick Blanc – creator of vertical gardens. | |
| The vertical gardens feature the overall principle of a vertical orientation, the presence of life-support systems, lack of soil. | |
| The vertical gardens are so beautiful. | |
