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Grow a Living Wall

Create Vertical Gardens with Purpose: Pollinators - Herbs and Veggies - Aromatherapy - Many More
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Grow a Living Wall by Shawna Coronado teaches how to create beautiful, sustainable vertical gardens in small spaces. The book focuses on 'living walls'β€”vertical structures adorned with live plants arranged decoratively. Tailored for home gardeners, it offers step-by-step guidance on designing environmentally conscious gardens, including themes for pollinator-friendly flowers, edible vegetables and herbs, aromatherapy, medicinal plants, air filtration, and cooling exterior walls. Featuring 20 themed gardens, each chapter provides practical tips and vivid photography to inspire gardeners to make a positive impact from limited space.
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This book is perfect for home gardeners, urban dwellers with limited outdoor space, eco-conscious readers interested in sustainable gardening, and anyone eager to explore innovative and practical vertical gardening techniques.

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Sometimes called "Green Walls" and "Vertical Gardens," living walls are easy to grow! Living Walls, Living Planet is the first wall gardening book to focus exclusively on home gardeners.

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Make a beautiful, practical, environmentally conscious garden, even in a small space - grow UP with a living wall! A living wall is a vertical structure, usually outside the home, that is built with live plants growing in containers hung in a decorative arrangement. Sometimes called "Green Walls" and "Vertical Gardens," living walls are easier than ever to plan and grow!

Grow a Living Wall is the first wall-gardening book to focus exclusively on the needs of home gardeners. Make your vertical garden environmentally friendly and sustainable. It's easy with author Shawna Coronado's help!

One of her themed vertical gardens is stocked mostly with flowers to make it a haven for bees and other pollinators. Other gardens are filled with vegetables and herbs so anyone with an outdoor wall can grow their own food - beautifully! Even more gardens promote aromatherapy or medicinal plants. Some are designed to provide a green net of air filtration near a living area, or to protect exterior walls from exposure to direct sunlight, which helps to keep the indoors cool.

In addition to the comprehensive, step-by-step information that explains the basics of vertical gardening, each of the 20 featured gardens has its own chapter filled with useful tips, stunning photography, and fascinating background stories that point out how much difference a small garden can make.

Like author Shawna herself, the gardens you'll find in Grow a Living Wall are positive, life affirming, and sure to produce a smile or two.

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Praised by The Oregonian/Oregon Live as "a great guide to creating a garden that everyone can look up to," the book has been lauded for its innovative approach to maximising small outdoor spaces. The Chicago Tribune highlights Coronado's skill in nurturing a diverse tower of herbs, vegetables, and pollinator-friendly flowers within an area of fewer than two square feet. According to Gardensmart.tv, the book offers a detailed and comprehensive guide to vertical gardening, encouraging growers to multiply their harvest by going upwards rather than using traditional floor space. Coronado's experience as a photographer and garden lecturer enriches the engaging thematic projects throughout the book.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781591866244

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 March 2015

Country: United States

Imprint: Cool Springs Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 275.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 582g

Pages: 160

About the Author

SHAWNA CORONADO is an author, on-camera spokesperson, newspaper columnist, professional photographer, internationally recognized keynote speaker, environmental and health correspondent with over eighteen years of experience with sales, marketing and public relations. Shawna speaks internationally on building community, simple garden living, and green lifestyle tips for the everyday person as well as social media development. Most recently, she was featured as a Chicago Tribune "Remarkable Woman" and named #1 Garden Blogger on Twitter by Cision in 2014. She has lectured at TEDx and Google, discussing the benefits of green living for community. Shawna Coronado educates the online community on eco-travel, green-living tips, sustainable gardening, inexpensive cooking, home vegetable production, and techniques for every day homeowners to save money by being green and feed the hungry during a down-economy - all this right from her very own home and ornamental front lawn vegetable garden. Her goal with the blogs and online presence is to better the world through community involvement and simple green living.

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