Eco-Friendly Walls: Move Beyond the Potted Plant

Many environmentalists say to decorate living and working space with natural décor such as green plants. Green plants make great décor and clean the air while looking pretty. But what if you could take the potted plant one step further and decorate your walls with plants? One New York plant lover accomplished this by removing the plaster from his apartment walls, replacing it with plywood covered with cork bark.

Technically, it’s called a vertical garden, which is increasing in popularity. Some companies are jumping on the bandwagon to fill this niche and even offering ready-made and all-in-one systems to turn walls into gardens.

An Ontario company, ELT, which sells green roofs also started selling garden wall systems. Three years later, ELT is one of the biggest suppliers of these systems to the United States. Green wall sales for the company has increased by 300 percent since 2008. A few months ago, the company also introduced a smaller and less expensive wall garden system, so it expects the sales to increase even further.