Vertical Gardens: Benefits and Gardening Ideas for a Healthier Home

There is nothing quite like waking up to the sound of birds chirping and looking out at calming greenery as you drink your morning coffee. Being surrounded by nature has many benefits for our physical and mental wellbeing. But if you live in an apartment or house without a garden or you’re stuck in a dull office all day, getting your nature fix can be tricky. This is why vertical gardens are an incredible solution that can revitalize your space and help you bring nature indoors.

Here at Naturalist, we love finding creative ways to incorporate natural elements and plants into our environments. That’s why we’re obsessed with vertical gardens! In this article, we’ll show you why vertical gardens are so great and how you can use them in your own home or office space.

What Is A Vertical Garden?

Vertical gardens are gardens that are literally vertical, with planters going up instead of out. They can be freestanding or wall-mounted, and horticulturists are finding more and more creative ways to use them. We’ve seen a lot of different variations of vertical gardens, so we know that they can work in any space. From big, lush living walls to smaller indoor gardens, there’s always a way to bring nature into your home!

Indoor Vertical Garden

If you want to know how to create a vertical garden inside your home, you’re in luck! The team at Naturalist Interiors specialize in creating beautiful wall gardens. Whether you prefer a living wall garden or one made out of preserved moss and plants, we can come up with a solution that will take your breath away.

Our team enjoys working with low maintenance plants that don’t require direct sunlight, such as Flat moss, Reindeer Moss, Provance Moss, Hedera Plant, Bun Moss, Parchment Fern, Broom, and Beargrass.

8 Incredible Benefits of Having a Vertical Garden

1. Improves Health And Air Quality

Plants can improve air quality both indoors and outdoors by reducing VOCs and absorbing pollutants, according to research. Consistently poor indoor air quality has been known to improve by planting a vertical garden, which improves air quality by absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen.

Vertical gardens can help improve air quality by Absorbing harmful toxins and releasing oxygen into the air.

2. Reduces The Cost Of Energy

Most people are not aware that vertical gardens can help reduce the cost of energy by cooling the air during summer months through a process called evapotranspiration. Evapotranspiration is when water is transported from the earth’s surface to the atmosphere through evaporation and transpiration.

Exterior vertical walls can significantly reduce the temperature of the wall surface by as much as fifty degrees (50°F). As a result, there is significant energy conservation and reduction of air conditioning costs.

3. Reduces Noise Levels

The vertical garden also helps reduce the noise levels in a building by acting as a sound barrier. It absorbs up to forty percent more sound than a regular façade, resulting in reduced noise of up to eight decibels.

The plants you see on the road are not only there for aesthetic reasons, but they also help to reduce noise pollution. This is because plants can block high-frequency sounds, and the stem helps reduce low-frequency noise.

Vertical gardens can help insulate a room by trapping air between the plants and the wall. They can also reduce noise levels by absorbing, refracting, or reflecting sound energy.

4. Reduces Stress

The connection between humans and nature is undeniable, and research has shown that spending time outside surrounded by nature has a positive effect on mental health. A vertical garden provides you with all the benefits of nature.

Watching plants for just a few minutes has been shown to improve heart activity, blood pressure, brain activity, and muscle tension. So if you have a vertical garden nearby, you’re in luck. Plants have a calming effect on humans that can ease stress. That’s why some hospitals have vertical gardens, to help calm patients and reduce stress.

5. Helps Heal Faster

A study found that putting plants in recovery rooms can help reduce the time it takes patients to heal. Plants and flowers have a calming effect on people which can speed up recovery time.

The earlier mention of vertical gardens cleansing the air leads to fewer health concerns such as migraines, watery eyes, and sore throats. In areas where there are many plants, such as homes and workplaces, people generally report less health problems.

6. Saves Up Space

If you live in an apartment block with a limited amount of outdoor space, you need to be very creative to make the most of the space you have. A vertical garden is a great way to use space efficiently while getting all the benefits of a garden.

Potted plants can take up more space than you may think, but with vertical gardens, you are not using any extra floor space because they are hung on walls. You just need to be sure to position the plants in a way that they will get adequate sunlight.

7. Increases Biodiversity

While a vertical garden provides a home for many different types of plants, it also offers a good shelter and nesting place for birds and insects. With the construction of many structures, we are getting rid of nature gradually. This is affecting a lot of organisms. Planting a vertical garden is a way to provide sanctuary for these endangered species of birds and insects.

The land where your apartment now stands was once home to hundreds of living organisms. But they’re gone now. If we can save other organisms by planting a vertical garden, we should do it wholeheartedly.

8. Adds Beauty To The Environment

A vertical garden is a great way to improve the look of any indoor space. If you’re unhappy with how your home or office looks, adding a vertical garden can really help to brighten things up.

6 Vertical Garden Ideas For Your Home

We love helping our clients reconnect with nature by creating custom wall gardens that fit their wishes, space, and budget. We take care of everything from design to installation, making sure the details are picture perfect. Here are some of our favorites.

Residential Moss Vertical Garden

We created a vertical garden out of Bun Moss for a residential house in the W Hotel Residences. We chose it for the luxurious look the incredible green color would add to the space and because it would pair well with the dark wood frames. We took into consideration the design of the space and its furniture when choosing the plants and the garden frame. As always, we aimed to achieve a cohesive look that blends into the atmosphere of the room without being overlooked. We think we succeeded! The place looks alive and more vibrant than ever!

Outdoor Lush Vertical Garden Wall

We’re thrilled to have had the opportunity to design a vertical garden wall in Boca Raton, Florida, using UV-protected artificial plants, flat moss, reindeer moss, hedera, brunia, bear grass, and bun moss. The highly textured and colorful wall garden looks spectacular, with purple plants providing beautiful contrast to the variations of green, and lovely ferns adding a gorgeous dimension.

Elegant Vertical Garden In A Residential Home

This home on Long Island is more vibrant and richer thanks to our vertical garden. We’re extremely proud of this project that we worked on with the clients and designers to come up with the perfect solution for this elegant home. Our team created a whimsical garden using Flat Moss, Bun Moss, Reindeer Moss, and Manzanita Branches. We wove the plants together to create an interesting mix of textures and colors. This is another home that we’ve managed to bring nature into following the principles of biophilic design and the owners will get to enjoy all the benefits.

Artistic Vertical Garden In A Residential Home

We designed a magnificent vertical garden for a home in NY, which took inspiration from ornate framed paintings and lush flower vases our grandmothers loved to collect. This framed vertical wall garden was perfect to complete our client’s interior design and bring the place to life. Using a variety of textured plants, including moss, ferns, and even preserved mushrooms, we achieved a gorgeous texture that really refreshed the white walls.

Charming Vertical Garden Idea For Your Home

Recently, the Naturalist team had the pleasure of designing vertical gardens for a home in Hoboken. Our team decided to use a mix of Reindeer Moss, Bun Moss, Flat moss, Nicoly, Hedera, and Populus to bring new life and add some interest to this house. We experimented with the colors and textures and came up with a gorgeous solution in our distinctive Naturalist fashion. Our unique framed vertical gardens were a win and we’re thrilled we once again fulfilled our clients’ dreams.

Vertical Garden Ideas For Your Office Space

There are many benefits to adding plants and natural elements into your workspace, including boosting morale and productivity, increasing creativity, and easing stress. Vertical gardens are an excellent solution for office spaces, as they help purify the air and increase humidity.

Simplicity At Its Best – Vertical Garden Office Idea

We’re thrilled that our vertical garden added to the beauty of this stunning, simple, and elegant conference room. We used only reindeer moss to create a gorgeous piece. This deep green plant not only looks great, but it also absorbs sound and naturally indicates humidity levels.