Living Walls Communicate Vision and Brand

Interior designers who operate in corporate spaces have increasingly embraced living walls. When creating visually captivating and sustainable elements for commercial buildings, these vertical garden installations function on many levels. Living walls provide artistic detail to your business environment – while improving the air quality, enhancing overall well-being, inspiring productivity, and promoting your brand.

4 Considerations: Installing Living Walls

Like any innovative design trend, creating and installing a lush green wall requires the right team with the right knowledge. From considerations about floorplan and structure to the appropriate plant selection, the complexities of living walls require skill to successfully install and maintain. Here are some of the elements you will need to consider when beginning a green wall project.

1. Selecting the Best Structural Form: Living wall systems are available in diverse structural forms, each boasting its own unique features and benefits. Choosing the best green living wall system for your space and environment is an essential decision. To select the right structural design for your living wall, start by evaluating variables such as budget, maintenance, horticultural selection, and aesthetics. Different types of green wall systems may include:
   • Panel or Modular Structures: Plant materials are pre-grown in sections before installation
   • Tray Systems: Plants are placed in grow pots and trays are mounted to the living wall
   • Freestanding Systems: With integrated irrigation, completely self-contained installations are easily portable
   • Cassette Systems: Designed like artwork, individual cassettes snap into the unit and are interchangeable
   • Trellis Systems: Utilize wire or mesh grids in various sizes to support diverse plants and vines.
2. Choosing the Best Plants: Installing the right plants is essential to the ultimate success of your green wall. The plants need to be able to thrive in the building’s climate and environment and fit in with the corporate aesthetic. Working with a professional plant design company helps property managers choose plants suitable to the available lighting, climate, and design variables.
3. Identifying and Installing Proper Irrigation: Without the right irrigation system in place, it will be a challenge to keep your living green wall flourishing with healthy and lush plants. Improperly designed irrigation can also result in system leaks that can wreak havoc in a corporate or professional environment. Each installed green wall will have specific water needs that only a professional can address. The system must provide for the water requirements of the plants while still being sustainable, conserving water, and minimizing maintenance requirements.
4. Inspired Integration to Help with Branding: Green or living walls are increasingly being used in lobbies, entrances and common areas to powerfully and beautifully communicate the corporate brand. Companies should, therefore, strive to create integration with their existing structure, design, and ambiance. Every detail will be carefully evaluated to ensure that the materials, plants, layout, and overall visual effect will enhance your business and corporate vision.

If you are a Florida business looking for plant design inspiration for your office,  medical facility, university, or shopping center – we invite you to browse our portfolio of recent plant installations and green walls. You are sure to find ideas and inspiration that will help you to begin to formulate your vision. No matter the type of plant installation you decide on, whether a green wall or other design, we invite you to call Tropex today. We are the Gulf Coast’s most trusted provider of leased plant installations. From design and installation to ongoing maintenance, we guarantee that your green wall will look beautiful, work flawlessly, and promote your message. Don’t let the process of choosing and installing a green wall dissuade you – with Tropex on your side, you can rest easy knowing the best Sarasota plant experts are working for you. We guarantee that each living wall will be a work of art.