Orchids on living green walls (Planted Pillars)

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I've recently become very interested in doing some indoor vertical gardening:





As I've been doing some terrariums lately, many of which include orchids:





So combining the two ideas, I really wanted to have some indoor orchid exhibit. I started by trying a few species of orchids on my green wall: Masdavallia auropurporea, Scaphosepalum rapax and Lepanthes yunckeri. The L. yunckeri did well but I wanted it in the terrarium so I snagged it off before too long. The others rooted in about two weeks and lasted a month on the green wall. As the larger leaved plants started creeping up towards them, it was time to build something new.

I call these Planted Pillars, it's essentially a tube shaped living green wall. They have all internal drip irrigation and are made of 100% recycled material green wall fabric. The first one has been set up only a week now, but I'm really pleased with it. All lighting in the images here is done by means of PAR 38 LEDs, which I use on all my planted projects. They indeed grow plants very well. Here's some images of the prototype Planted Pillar:

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I wanted to share these as I thought it may be a new growing style that people may be interested in. I post regular updates of my projects on my Planted Glass Box facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/plantedglassboxes

I don't want to post anything related to sales here, but if you go to the facebook page and contact me I can provide that type of information there.

Thanks for looking, hope you enjoy.