Melbourne gets more high rise garden walls with Florafelt greening The Block Sky High
A lack of a park or garden may be present, but developers are finding ways to add green features to their developments in high-density environments.
The Block in Melbourne’s inner city suburb South Melbourne is the latest development to throw its support behind a greener environment and is incorporating vertical gardens on its exterior.
The supplier of the vertical gardens (pictured below) is Florafelt.
The nylon felt is stapled to a plastic sign board and plant roots grow into the moist felt.
In the neighbouring suburb of Southbank, the apartment complex Triptych boasts a 187-square-metre living wall, rising from level two to six above the Kavanagh Street entrance.
The wall includes 43 species of plants and grasses, selected to withstand the unpredictable Melbourne climate.
The gardens were grown off-site by gardening firm Fytogreen.
The inside lobbies of Triptych also feature vertical gardens.
Elm Apartments on Dorcas Street in Southbank feature two vertical gardens with a combined total of 40 square metres.
The external garden comprises 20 species and the internal vertical garden features 17 special.
Another Southbank building to be a green building is Habitat, featuring a three-storey vertical garden.
Habitat will include a total of 47 apartments across levels five to 33 and is a joint venture between Vicland developers and Rothelowman architects.
The largest vertical garden on a development in the southern hemisphere will be at Platinum in Southbank.
Rising from its third level, the seven-storey vertical garden will both conceal and naturally ventilate parking for 265 cars and storage units.
Tract Landscaping have designed a vertical garden for apartments and townhouses in Clara, South Yarra.
The garden wall acts as a backdrop to the courtyards and stretches around to the entrance.
Clara is a collaboration between R. Corporation, Jackson Clements Burrows Architects, Tract Landscaping and Jodhi Meares.
Property Observer has reported on vertical gardens worldwide and One Central Park development's hanging gardens in Sydney.
