Ideal plants for your vertical garden:
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- Peace lily (Spathiphyllum sp.)
- Ficus (Ficus benjamina)
- Rubber Tree (Ficus elastic)
- Umbrella Plant (Arboricola sp.)
- Philodendron (Philodendron sp.)
- Red Edged Dracena (Dracaena Marginata)
- Spider Plant (Chlorophytum comosum)
- Peperomia (Peperomia sp.)
- Croton (Croton Norma)
- Variegated Croton (Croton Petra)
- Red and Green Prayer Plant (Maranta leuconeura)
- Button Fern (Pellaea rotundifolia)
- Ribbon Dracaena (Dracaena sanderiana)
For more information on living walls and companies that install them, check out:
Elevated Landscape Technologies' Easy Green Living Wall System for do-it-yourself kits that can be ordered online.
NEDLAW designs, installs, and maintains living walls.
The Vertical Garden, by Patrick Blanc, a French artist credited with inventing living walls.
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