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Photo Credit: Carlsbad Current Argus

Last weekend, gardeners from around Southern California and beyond gathered at the Los Angeles Arboretum for Living Green: Essentials for the Home Gardener, the latest edition of the L.A. Garden Show. Visitors were able to view a selection of beautiful gardens that incorporate sustainability and best practices for edible gardening.

Woolly Pocket was right at home as an ideal vertical garden system for a ”Habitat Wall” designed by Stephanie Barton & Mayita Dinos. Their design caught the eye of celebrated garden writer, Debra Prinzing, who recently wrote in her review of the show:

using the Woolly Pockets planting system, the installation overflowed with plants providing nectar, larval food, forage and nesting spots for local butterflies, bees and birds…

Photo Credit: Debra Prinzing

A successful garden will inevitably have multiple benefits. One we find particularly Woolly is providing nature’s critters with nourishment and sanctuary. In urban gardens, this is especially important. Another benefit of a vertical garden is the cooling effect that plants provide as they absorb the sun’s energy, instead of heating your home. In the winter, the living wall insulates the home, retaining heat where you need it, indoors.

We’ll be sharing more benefits of vertical gardens in future blog posts. For now, visit our website to learn more about the Wally Vertical Gardening System. Happy gardening!

Last week Woolly Pocket teamed up with New York Restoration Project to grow a Woolly Wall in Union Square to celebrate Earth Day!

With help from a team of expert pocketers, especially Billie Cohen who designed and planted this living gateway!

All Photos by Shannon Sturgis

The Living Wall remained on display for the NYC Grows event held last Sunday. Several New Yorkers signed up to become an NYRP member during the NYC Grows festival and received one of the 300 Wallys from the wall. In addition, Woolly Pocket and NYRP donated more than 100 Wallys to local schools!

Many bloggers couldn’t resist sharing the Living Wall with their readers! A Big Woolly Thank You to:

Gothamist

QueenieNYC

Apartment Therapy looks at 4 options for creating Vertical Gardens

If you want to go a more dramatic route, you can look into Woolly Pockets which have larger pockets for planting bigger plants like ferns and begonias (Image #3). They’re made of fabric that breathes so you won’t get mold or mildew building up in the pockets or on your walls. Plus you can hang them as a partition in a large space like a loft!

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