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543 fake landscapes 500mm Marram grass in clients planters WC1

This is a set of little 30cm glossy white cubes that belonged to the client. We don’t do much planting into white containers, but they work well with the fresh green marram. This is high up outside a hotel penthouse in Kings Cross with a less-than-enchanting view! 543

542 fake landscapes marram grass in anthacite planters with downlighters 542

What’s neat about this (apart from the arty photo and that pretty dome in Bayswater in the background) is that the client had the lights drilled in to the planter sides, and the cables run through the side wall out of the base and into the decking. Real attention to detail! 542

541 dormy house in terracotta 541

We don’t see as much terracotta as we’d like – particularly with this dusty pink Italian tone. Against that, they probably cost more than the plants did! This is at a spa in the Cotswolds, not that it’s relevant - and we’ve made the middle grasses higher to get that domed top. 541

540 backlit last marram run 540

This is one of those dream jobs where they’d built a nice integrated wooden planter on the edge of the terrace, but without enough depth or drainage to keep real stuff alive! It’s in Notting Hill, and we were lucky with the light that day 540

521 fake landscapes 8m tiered corner living wall 521

This is another part of the same Far East project as the earlier dusk picture, with a series of stepped walls going up to around 7m from the ground. The job isn’t quite complete in this picture, the final version continues top right to ‘lose the neighbour’. In a non-violent way, of course… 521

520 Fake Landscapes mews chimney breast living wall 520

This is a divider on the roof between two mews houses. It runs between two old chimney stacks which we also covered. It’s unusual to plant something all round like this with a living wall – it’s weirdly three dimensional! 520

519 fake landsapes living wall with holes for moss 519

Another basement courtyard, this time open to the weather. The client wanted the wall to look like it had been there for ages. We left holes all the way to the backing and filled them with our fake sheet moss. It works really well, looks very 3D, and is equally effective on a flat roof. 519

518 natural living wall 518

A proper indoor wall, laced with non-UV stuff that’s nice and wild looking, we do quite a few like these for swimming pools and gyms as well. Often as a kindness to other people in the gym – not sure I’d like to look at myself in a mirror either… 518

517 fake landscapes shallow basement stair living wall 517

This is a very London problem, narrow steps where our usual living wall depth would eat into the access – so we make an extra-shallow wall, which involves a whole lot of fiddly cutting and bad language from the building elves. Looks good, though. 517

516 fake Landscapes hybrid Living Wall night SW3 516

This is an early ‘hybrid’ living wall. The client, a lovely but mildly impatient person, had a natural wall installed late in the year. It was mostly mud with little bits of greenery and he didn’t want to stare at it till the spring – so we added greenery and flowers which, in time, the plants grew through and covered. Result: happiness! 516

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