green walls
Vertical Garden, Rosebank
Corner, Johannesburg
T
he project was started in June
2016 and the photographs
in the article were taken
in mid-February 2017. The
vertical garden (green wall)
is 40m 2 in extent. Lockwood
explained that the climatic
conditions of this outdoor
vertical garden had been
carefully considered as
the wall faces south-southeast. The
plants were chosen, other than for
their ornamental value, for their cold
hardiness and those lower on the panels
for their shade tolerance. He said the
Rumohra adiantiformis (Forest Leather-
leaf or Knysna Fern), for example, had
been placed at the bottom of the planted
panels because it is shade loving.
Other plants that were chosen by
Lockwood and ranged in zones in the
vertical gardens, largely according
to their needs and because of their
appealing appearance were, amongst
others: the indigenous (Eastern
Cape)