LIVING WALL PLANTS
"I am really excited to be creating a
garden for London, because you have the best climate, much better
than Paris, for certain plants – much greater humidity and milder
winters."
Patrick Blanc
Using his pioneering planting techniques,
Patrick Blanc has created another spectacular Living Wall at The
Athenaeum. It uses more species of plants than any other Vertical
Garden in the UK – including the world’s biggest single collection
of Urticaceae. Patrick carefully collected the different species
from dripping warm locations all over East Asia. Next, he
propagated the plants in a nursery in the South of France then
inserted the roots into the specially constructed, irrigated felt
at The Athenaeum.
Noteworthy species
include:
Adiantum capillus-veneris (From warm temperate
and tropical climates – Colin no country listed)
Begonia grandis PB (Green – from China and
Japan)
Begonia grandis PB (Dark red – from China and
Japan)
Begonia pedatifida PB (China)
Billbergia nutans (South Brazil)
Corydalis cheilanthifolia (China)
Cyrtomium macrophyllum (Japan)
Fascicularia bicolour (Chile)
Ficus erecta var. sieboldii (South Korea)
Fuchsia hatschbachii (South
Brazil)
Fuchsia regia (South Brazil)
Hemiboea cf. strigosa PB
(China)
Impatiens arguta (Himalayas and East
Africa)
Impatiens mengtzeana (Himalayas and East
Africa)
Impatiens sp 1 (yellow) (Himalayas and East
Africa)
Impatiens sp 2 (pink) (Himalayas and East
Africa)
Iris japonica (Japan and China)
Lonicera pileata (China)
Rubus ichangensis (Colin - no country listed)
Stachyurus salicifolius (China)
Urticaceae:
Boehmeria platyphylla
(India)
Boehmeria tricuspis (Japan)
Debregeasia longifolia (India)
Elatostema radicans var. minimum (Japan)
Elatostema scabrum
(Japan)
Elatostema umbellatum var. majus
(Japan)
Elatostema umbellatum `Dents de Kyoto’ (Japan)
Pilea matsudai (Taïwan)
Pilea peperomioides
(China)
Pilea petiolaris (Japan)
Pilea scripta
(India)
Pilea umbrosa
(India)
Pilea plataniflora (Sikkim)