Over 55 species were planted on the facade of the B3 Hotel Virrey in Bogotá. Paisajismo Urbano has spent a lot of time working with vertical gardening systems and knows all the variations in great detail. Those that are most commonly used at the moment are systems of modular panels, the sphagnum moss system, Patrick Blanc’s system and their own system ofvertical ecosystems.
With the first system of modular panels we have not yet seen that they are really healthy or brightly coloured, due to the fact that the substrate of wool and rock does not allow the chemical conditions needed for irrigation. This means that this type of system is almost always mono-specific, and one species doesn’t adapt well to all parts of the wall and to the physico-chemical gradients that it finds within it.
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