AC HOTEL by Marriott Kingston
was in fact sound, and run the risk of causing leaks and possibly compromising the structural integrity of the swimming pool, in the end. So, it was back to the drawing board. This big, bare wall just needed life. And what is more alive, for the outdoors, than plants? So I had the very ambitious idea of creating a live wall/living wall/green wall, flanking a stone wall which acted as the backdrop for a bench; a seating area by the pool.
I had to carefully consider that for a space that gets a lot of direct sunlight for most of the day, it was very important that the plants selected for the wall be able to tolerate sunlight all day. S0 here I called in the experts and enlisted help finding just what I needed.
The plants used were: asparagus ferns, pothos, sansevieria, foxtail ferns, alternanthera and liriope.
Live walls typically are just that: live, vertical gardens. It is typically a construct of pipes, soil, irrigation, the plants are planted directly into soil and are watered through a timed system. I knew that even though it wasn’t going to be my responsibility to maintain the garden, I wasn’t sure I wanted to burden the clients with that maintenance, so I approached it as if it were mine… individually potted plants, of varying textures and shades, arranged in a cluster of rows, that would grow in a way to eventually hide the pots in which they are planted. If a plant burned out or died, that was an easy fix; just replace it, without affecting any other plant in the cluster.
At this point I had to figure out how to hang potted plants vertically against a wall.