Grow a Living Wall

Create Vertical Gardens with Purpose

Shawna Coronado

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Cool Springs Press
25 February 2015

Gardening; Container gardening

Make a beautiful, practical, environmentally conscious garden, even in a small space - grow UP with a living wall! A living wall is a vertical structure, usually outside the home, that is built with live plants growing in containers hung in a decorative arrangement. Sometimes called Green Walls and Vertical Gardens, living walls are easier than ever to plan and grow!

Grow a Living Wall is the first wall-gardening book to focus exclusively on the needs of home gardeners. Make your vertical garden environmentally friendly and sustainable. It's easy with author Shawna Coronado's help! One of her themed vertical gardens is stocked mostly with flowers to make it a haven for bees and other pollinators. Other gardens are filled with vegetables and herbs so anyone with an outdoor wall can grow their own food - beautifully! Even more gardens promote aromatherapy or medicinal plants. Some are designed to provide a green net of air filtration near a living area, or to protect exterior walls from exposure to direct sunlight, which helps to keep the indoors cool. In addition to the comprehensive, step-by-step information that explains the basics of vertical gardening, each of the 20 featured gardens has its own chapter filled with useful tips, stunning photography, and fascinating background stories that point out how much difference a small garden can make.

Like author Shawna herself, the gardens you'll find in Grow a Living Wall are positive, life affirming, and sure to produce a smile or two.

By: Shawna Coronado
Imprint: Cool Springs Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 275mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 582g
ISBN: 9781591866244
ISBN 10: 1591866243
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 25 February 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

SHAWNA CORONADO is an author, on-camera spokesperson, newspaper columnist, professional photographer, internationally recognized keynote speaker, environmental and health correspondent with over eighteen years of experience with sales, marketing and public relations. Shawna speaks internationally on building community, simple garden living, and green lifestyle tips for the everyday person as well as social media development. Most recently, she was featured as a Chicago Tribune Remarkable Woman and named #1 Garden Blogger on Twitter by Cision in 2014. She has lectured at TEDx and Google, discussing the benefits of green living for community. Shawna Coronado educates the online community on eco-travel, green-living tips, sustainable gardening, inexpensive cooking, home vegetable production, and techniques for every day homeowners to save money by being green and feed the hungry during a down-economy - all this right from her very own home and ornamental front lawn vegetable garden. Her goal with the blogs and online presence is to better the world through community involvement and simple green living.

Reviews for Grow a Living Wall: Create Vertical Gardens with Purpose

It's a fantastic book by an inspirational and creative force in the gardening world. - www.gardentherapy.ca In her latest garden book, proponent of green-style living, photographer, columnist, and garden lecturer Coronado (Illinois Getting Started Garden Guide; Indiana Getting Started Garden Guide) urges readers to grow up by using vertical space in creative and purposeful ways. Twenty themed projects employ an array of various hardscape and plant materials to create living walls. Step-by-step instructions outline plant selection, required tools and materials, and installation techniques. The colorful photos supplementing the text show that many of these compact hanging or standing gardens look like garden-show entries. A range of budgets and styles are offered. Projects may be simple, such as hanging a planted container on a gate, or more challenging, with greenery that covers a wall. Readers can choose from examples of culinary, herbal, pollinator, or aromatherapy gardens. Several plans address different environs and types of spaces--balconies, for example, or shaded areas. Each project has at least one purpose, which may be to help the environment, set a mood, embellish landscapes, or grow edibles. The author successfully demonstrates how to grow imaginative and purposeful space-saving gardens on an upright plane. VERDICT A green thumbs up! All levels of garden hobbyists and landscapers will enjoy this upbeat book. - Library Journal ...a great guide to creating a garden that everyone can look up to. - The Oregonian/Oregon Live Shawna Coronado explains how to make the most of a really small space: a wall. In less than 2 square feet of floor space, Coronado nurtures a tower of herbs, vegetables and flowering plants for pollinators. - Chicago Tribune Coronado believes gardeners are still stuck on the ground, in containers or with limited floor space. Living Wall is her guide to growing vertically - but doing it well. Take the traditional square foot garden of 1 to 16 plants in a square foot area and then duplicate and go up. Thirty-five plants + will grab only one square foot of floor space. The higher you go, the more the harvest. This is a detailed, comprehensive guide - www.gardensmart.tv