More Tacoma Green Wall

I documented this project earlier this year on a visit up north... some press today via the Seattle Times: "VERTICAL GARDENS are literally climbing in popularity, and Tacoma is out front with a green wall designed by the man who invented them. French botanist and artist Patrick Blanc's 800-square-foot vertical garden for the Goodwill-Milgard Work Opportunity Center was unveiled in September."


:: image by CLIFF DESPEAUX - via Seattle Times

"The Goodwill's planted wall is as unusual and flamboyant as its designer. Thousands of multihued foliage plants run in diagonal ribbons across its 20-by-40-foot surface. Ferns and shrubs, heucheras and hellebores billow out from the wall. Liriope and Japanese forest grass sprout as if by magic. Out of the 96 different kinds of plants, a few, like the epimedium, are struggling. But most appear to be thriving, including plants like yews, andromeda and iris so unlikely to be growing high up in the sky you can't quite believe your eyes."

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