Living walls are a great way to add some plants to your home in bold, dramatic style without using up a lot of room. Quite simply, modular living walls allow you to use the wall space of your home to create vertical gardens. Pouches or containers are attached directly to the wall and plants are planted inside these containers. The result is a lush green wall that looks perfectly organic, a part of your home. Wall gardens are hot right now, and they are popping up in apartments, urban gardens, rooftop gardens, balconies, and houses across the country.

If you want to try your hand at vertical gardening, you will need to get containers first. Woolly Wallys are a great and affordable solution that can be custom-installed into your home. You simply buy these pouches and attach them to your walls to create quick vertical gardens. You can also hire a carpenter with experience to create vertical gardens in your home, although this usually takes time and costs more than the Woolly Wally solution.

Once you have your green wall containers, you will need to decide where to place your wall gardens. You can place your gardens both indoors and outdoors. Indoors, look for areas that have at least some lighting. Consider what sorts of plants you might want to add to your green wall. Areas close to east or west facing windows generally receive more light.

You will want to place sun-hungry plants here. Keep in mind that if you are building green walls that go almost floor to ceiling, the flowers closer to the floor will see less light, so select plants that thrive in shady or partially shady conditions for these containers.

If you’re not sure how much light your home gets, open your windows for one week and check each room four times a day. Which room is brightest? Are all the rooms bright or dim? Get a temperature and moisture gauge for your home and test to see what the relative temperature and moisture level of your home is.

Keep in mind that some plants enjoy warmth and moisture while others flourish in more arid conditions. Take written information about your homes moisture levels, temperature, and lighting with you to a good nursery. Staff will be able to help you pick out plants that will thrive in your vertical gardens in your unique conditions. When selecting plants, keep in mind that you can select full-grown plants if you have created your living walls from Woolly Wallys. In fact, selecting full-grown plants gives you an instantly lush and gorgeous living wall you can enjoy at once.

The planet is in trouble and everyone seems to know. The next step is to start doing something about it and it sometimes seems that all that is being done is a lot of complaining. The government should do something, the corporations should make the change, the industry should revise their wicked ways, etc. How about stopping this useless rhetoric and starting with changing the way you live YOUR life? Surely it is an effort bigger than talking big, but this world will get nowhere if it doesn’t get done.

There are plenty of things you can all do for ecology in your small ways. When you do your shopping try buying foods and products marked with eco-friendly or fair-trade stickers. For example, alot of people today buy natural pet products for their cats and dogs. Support organic producers in your area and don’t be afraid to pay a little more, after all it’s the future of our children we are talking about. Get paper bags when possible, teach your children to be economic with paper, print out only the most necessary documents and use both sides. Try to use public transport, walk or cycle for your daily errands and always sort your trash before taking it out. These are small things and they seem simplistic, but change will happen only when we commit ourselves to doing them.