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MIXED GRILLE (above): An aluminium grille holds a collection of wall-hung containers. Together with taller plants in front, they help hide an air-con compressor. -- ANDREW TAN
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AWE, LA LA: At the Hotel Pershing Hall in Paris, France, botanist Patrick Blanc has created a garden that rises a jaw-dropping six storeys up the hotel's courtyard. Blanc, who is also a garden designer, has become synonymous with vertical gardens. -- GARDENS ILLUSTRATED/LE SCANFF-MYER
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SOCIAL CLIMBERS: In this HDB flat, philodendrons, epipremnums and monstera deliciosa have scrambled up this two-storey balcony wall.
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EN MASSE (above): Ferns make good objects for vertical planting. They are quite at home growing on surfaces such as tree trunks and even from cracks in walls. Here, at the Botanic Gardens, they can be seen occupying almost an entire wall at the visitors centre. -- ANDREW TAN
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CLOSE UP: The ferns in the picture above are grown on coir held in place by a wire 'cage', which is then attached to the wall behind.
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SMALL IN SIZE, BIG ON IMPACT: This mini garden by the front door of an HDB flat looks full and lush because of the planting that stretches from the floor and goes up the wall to form a thick canopy of foliage overhead.
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