Garden Up

Garden Up Gardening has gone up the wall! Improving air quality, lowering energy intake and introducing an interest in horticultural art.

Garden UP is a Cape Town based business which designs and installs Vertical Gardens and provides innovative and creative greening solutions for commercial infrastructures

Vertical Gardens are the solution for screening walls, introducing greenery into urban lifestyles, promoting and introducing people into an Eco green world. Patrick Blanc is the inventor of the modern Green Wall. His 'mur vegeta

l' projects being the best known of modern Vertical gardens or Green Walls. Basically, Plants are attached to the exterior or interior of a building or surface. Plants root in a structural support which is fastened to the wall itself. The plants receive water and nutrients from within the vertical support instead of from the ground. Almost any kind of plant can be incorporated into a vertical garden, including annual, succulent, perennial, groundcover or vine plant. OUR AIM ☑
Garden Up aims to introduce horticultural art in the form of vertical gardens
We aspire to assist the environment and our clients in an ethical manner by:

⋆ Providing job opportunity
⋆ Creating and designing artistic green pieces
⋆ Improve indoor air quality
⋆ Reduce energy dependence
⋆ Create green open space into an urban lifestyle
⋆ Bring awareness about flora and fauna
⋆ Educate communitys' on plant sustainability
⋆ Promote an interest in the aesthetics of horticultural art

We also strive to assist and stimulate educational opportunities in Cape Town and the rest of Africa

THE BENEFITS OF GROWING PLANTS VERTICALLY

• Vertical Gardens acts as biofilters, enhancing air quality by breaking down harmful airborne contaminants and transforming them into clean oxygen. Like a green roof, a green wall absorbs carbon dioxide and releases oxygen and therefore reduces green house gases in the atmosphere.
•In urban surroundings, vertical gardens may be an ideal way to introduce a natural element to the lives of city-dwellers.
• They retain rain water that could possibly run off the side of buildings and overflow sewer systems
• Green Walls reduce energy consumption by providing a layer of insulation around the building. This keeps the building cooler in summer, reducing the reliance of air conditioning. As well as protecting the building from the cold in winter. This layer of insulation also protects the building's facade from harmful UV rays and other damaging weather conditions, as well as creating a sound barrier
• Living walls can help cut your food bills. A number of edible plants can be grown on living walls, including many herbs, salad greens, and other vegetables and fruits
• Green Walls are a stunning visual statement. They are beautiful, unique, and space efficient. Whether the green wall is inside or outside a building, it adds tremendous aesthetic value to the area. It also creates a statement that you have consideration for the environment.
• Green Walls provide important habitat for migrating butterflies and birds and bees, which helps them to survive whilst allowing you to observe and enjoy their beauty.

03/02/2017

Nanjing Green Towers by Stefano Boeri Architetti will comprise China's first vertical forest with 1,100 trees.

A garden of ours in Cape Town.
24/03/2013

A garden of ours in Cape Town.

Garden on set
21/09/2012

Garden on set

31/08/2012
Bathroom vertical garden
26/06/2012

Bathroom vertical garden

09/05/2012

A vertical garden that is connected to the toilet. When the toilet is flushed the plants get watered.

Living Frame in Elle Decoration
20/03/2012

Living Frame in Elle Decoration

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10/12/2011

This is Greg Nicolson, he’s one half of Garden Up, a business he and Steven Miedema started up that specialises in vertical gardening. I’d contacted Greg a long time ago about doing a vertical garden in one of the other spaces I was looking at, but when 133 Bree Street came along it made more sense...

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03/12/2011

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Things are really looking good and although these last two weeks before we open is going to be a ball ache of rushing around… it seems pretty certain that we’ll make it. Greg Nicolson from Garden Up came round this week to plant over 80 plants that he’d sourced for the space. He does vertical gard...

02/12/2011

Garden Up has made two vertical gardens for shop front of Salon 91 Art Gallery on Kloof street for a group exhibition. It opens on Sat 3rd @ 11:30am, go check it out. 91 Kloof Street! Pictures will follow soon...

31/10/2011
Check out this Deal
24/10/2011

Check out this Deal

Purchase a pair of The Garden Canvas for only R125. Make your house an eco-system with amazing terrariums.

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