Vertical Gardening

Oh how I LOVE it! Go Nanjing! what a project

First Vertical Forest In Asia To Have Over 3,000 Plants And Turns CO2 Into 132 Pounds Of Oxygen Per Day

 

Well that certainly takes Vertical Gardening to another level!!!

 

All flora as far as I know, grow towards that huge thermo nuclear reactor in the sky and thus floor two could prune floor one's shrubs and trees, floor three could prune floor two.. etc and so on.

Weight would be my concern, and the heat pump technology that will be employed. Mechanical-compression cycle refrigeration systems create noise and they would need many of them or one gigantic one and either way, those buildings could hum at a hertz that would be adding to the noise pollution. Sure, you may not actually hear it over the noise in China, but it would impact none the less.

China needs to step up and actually do something fast regarding their polluted air space and I see this as at least a foot in the right direction. And anyone without land to dig in, could employ this kind of gardening and technology on a smaller scale

 

I didn't think of that one!

Um.. perhaps a vertical flying helicopter I think they just walk out onto the balcony and use long handled pruning shears.

The artist went a bit overboard me thinks

Here's the one in Milan with the reality of it..
Bosco Verticale, Milan | Vertical Garden VI

 

A few years ago Paignton Zoo trialled a system for Verticrop Vertical Farming - Verticrop
There are also indoor systems being developed that produce fish and circulate the water round a growing system producing salads, sprouts etc; then the cleaned water goes back through to the fish. Lighting comes from LED systems.

 

@NigelJ Now that's the kind of thing that I just LOVE to hear about.. I smell humanity's future right there. I will be lost in looking up further information regarding verticrop and that indoor system now for the next week for sure. Thanks for that.

@shiney Surely not.. I was under the impression that these buildings were built for the sustainability and specific purpose of housing and growing plants and that they're not just simple balcony structures with plant pots on them like any other. I shall investigate further

 

I'm pretty sure there's a thread somewhere called rosa's balcony, which is full of lovely photos. I remember it. It was epic.

 

I can hardly contain myself I'm in D.I.Y vertical gardening heaven! And am SO going to build quite a number of these.. 25+ Creative DIY Vertical Gardens For Your Home


Not high tech like the Nanjing building but it'll do for now. And placed suitably, they can water each other which is half the point

 

This is what I built last year, it now houses my collection of Sempervivums. Also made some hanging pots which I have just drilled holes in and hung with rope.

 

I have seen this sort of thing on a smaller scale.
A few years ago someone at Chelsea did a vertical "green " wall.

Not sure how practical an entire building would be?