Plant Inspiration
PlantBox™ vertical gardens give you loads of room to get creative! experiment with colour and texture for a vibrant living walls. Here are a few suggestions to get you started. Each PlantBox™ trough takes up to 4 x 1 litre (13cm) plants.
Outdoor Plants
For year round greenery we recommend robust evergreen plants. Adding seasonal flowering plants adds interest and colour and helps attract bees and other pollinators
Hedera helix (shamrock or green wonder)
Commonly known as ‘English ivy’, this fast-growing evergreen plant will provide your living wall with plenty of coverage and a perfect contrast to your feature or spot plants.
Lonicera (lonicera nitida)
A popular substitute for box hedging plants for its natural ability to be trimmed into a variety of shapes and angles when fully established. Also insusceptible to ‘Box blight’. This is a dense and fast-growing evergreen.
Polystichum tsus-simense
Korean rock fern is a dainty holly fern, small in stature with glossy green leaves that contract with black scales and leaf bases. A truly hardly evergreen fern that provides interest and texture in your living wall all year round.
Carex 'Ice Dance'
This is an evergreen sedge plant adds lots of volume and texture to living walls. The green, glossy leaves are edged with white and small, inconspicuous brown flower spikes appear in late spring
Heuchera ‘Palace Purple’
A popular plant in most gardens, known best for its distinctive dark foliage and ability to contrast perfectly with any evergreen. For spots of dark purple throughout your living wall, this plant is a truly must-have addition.
Vinca Minor
A shade tolerant plant that stems glossy, green leaves that are studded with bright blue or mauve flowers in Spring. A good addition to any PlantBox™ living wall.
Liriope muscari
Ideal for adding colour to your living wall in Autumn. Both adaptable and tough, this plant will stem mauve coloured flowers providing the wall with beautiful focal point for some of the year, and evergreen throughout the rest of the year.
Erysimum ‘bowles mauve’
Beautiful and floriferous, this woody-stemmed perennial will bear masses of mauve flowers on tall spires for months on end. For best results, plant in sun or partial shade. A welcome addition to any living wall containing lots of evergreen planting.
Fatsia ‘japonica’
Should you be going for a more ‘jungle’ theme with your PlantBox™ living wall, then the Fatsia is a must-have. With fast-growing distinctive, sculptural leaves – this plant will thrive throughout the Summer and left in full sun, or partial shade.
Indoor Plants
Create an indoor jungle with stunning houseplants.
Aglaonema maria
One of the most common indoor house plants and office plants is the Aglaonema ‘Maria’ or, as it is more commonly called, the Chinese Evergreen plant. Aglaonema ‘Maria’ is easy to care for and is great for use in an office or home environment. Aglaonema ‘Maria’ is tolerant of lower light levels often found in the home or office.
Spathiphyllum wallisii
Because the peace lily is a small plant in height and width they are suitable to place where you see fit. It’s important to make sure the place has plenty of light, but not direct sunlight to prevent damaging the leaves. The best environment they prefer is light and shade throughout a day.
Begonia escargot
Provide organic, sharp-draining soil in shade with lots of humidity. Water when soil is dry to the touch. Avoid soggy conditions, but do not allow plants to wilt. Do not over-fertilize. Remove dead leaves promptly and keep the soil surface free of debris to avoid disease problems.
Anthurium red
Anthurium plants thrive in bright, indirect light. They do not like exposure to direct sunlight, except in the winter months or in plants that have been carefully acclimated. Anthurium live in temperatures at or above 60 F and the foliage types prefer temperatures even warmer. If temperatures dip below this level, the plant will suffer. Anthurium grow in rich, loose potting soil that should always be kept moist, but not drenched.
Asplenium nidus
The two main conditions to provide well is enough humidity and to protect the leaves from direct sunlight (they become scorched), although some sunlight is ideal for them. If a person has sufficient living space and can follow the straight forward care instructions below, anyone can grow and maintain them.
Epipremnum aureum
This plant has large, glossy green leaves with irregular cream and yellow streaks and blotches that are valued for their air-purifying qualities. Golden Pothos also tolerates lower light levels without losing its variegation and looks best displayed as a hanging plant.
Chamadorea elegans
Chamaedorea are evergreen palms with slender, solitary or clustered stems bearing large leaves which may be pinnate or shaped like a fish tail; insignificant flowers are borne in panicles or spikes below the leaves, followed by small fruits.
Maranta marintina
Although prayer plant houseplant is somewhat tolerant of low light conditions, it does best in bright, indirect sunlight. The prayer plant prefers well-drained soil and requires high humidity to thrive. Prayer plant houseplants should be kept moist, but not soggy. Use warm water and feed prayer plant houseplants every two weeks, from spring through fall, with an all-purpose fertilizer.
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