Go Green with a Living Wall
One of the hottest trends out there has to be Living walls. Tiny spaces no longer need to be barren and cold looking as with the simple addition of a living wall you can bring all the stress relieving benefits of being in nature into even the tiniest of courtyards or even a balcony.
Living walls add value to your home as well as improving noise reduction and air quality they can ensure your home stands out from the rest when it comes time to sell. They are relatively easy to maintain and certainly provide an upscale aesthetic, reduce CO2 and noise pollution in the environment, alongside the obvious health benefits of eating organic produce.
Potential buyers will most likely be willing to pay a premium to have a fully grown living wall, whether outside in a smaller space or right beside the cooking area, giving you a year-round fresh supply of herbs to cook with. The added bonus of buying a house with up to a 20% reduction in their wastewater charges will certainly make a home more appealing to a potential buyer too. However if you want to take your living wall with you to your new property that is certainly possible as well.
It is not only smaller spaces in the residential market that are hopping aboard the Living wall phenomenon, but even larger garden spaces have discovered the benefits of having the kitchen garden hanging right outside the patio doors. Often, they are incorporated to hide unsightly outbuildings or a questionable fence that belongs to the neighbours but can just as easily be integrated into the overall Landscape design.
Corporate spaces find living walls not only improve the productivity of their employees but are a testament to reducing their carbon footprint.
Its not just the aesthetics that are improved with a living wall but if you live in a flood prone area you might want to not only install a living wall garden yourself but encourage your neighbours to do so too.
No, this is not some marketing ploy, the truth is if everyone in your area had a living wall flooding could become a non-issue as living walls reduce water run off by 70%-75%. It doesn’t take complex math skills to figure out what impact reducing the water run off by 75% would do to the threat of flooding in the area.
If you are interested in finding out how a living wall can enhance your indoor or outdoor living space, get in touch with us at www.goldlandscaping.co.uk and we can help you decide what would best suit your lifestyle needs.
