Gawking to Growing

Since the wedding, I have become an avid 'gawker'. While we were planning the wedding, Mareike found www.weddinggawker.com and we instantly became hooked. It developed into being my only real internet source, from whence I garnered all my wedding inspiration. Since being married I have moved on from gawking at weddings to gawking at foods and crafts. Oh boy. I'm sure I will be writing quite a bit about both of those new obsessions hobbies of mine. I have so many tabs open on Opera all the time that the Hons has decided, in order to relieve him of frustration and questions like "can you please close some tabs so that the Internet works faster!", that Opera is mine and Google Chrome is his. Fine by me! I am now free to tab it up all I want! And believe me, I do.

So today I'm going to show you one of the tabs that I have open, just waiting for the right moment (the right weather conditions, planet alignment, ok, just mood) for me to crack on and make.I would love 5 of these in total - 1 for our balcony where there is a blank view-blocker thing just begging for this to hang on it, 1 for our terrace and 3 for the blank wall against which our sitting area in the garden backs. (Whoa! Crazy sentence structure. I blame the german. Not the Germans. The German. Language. Not Patrick.)

Check out this loveliness! (I got all of this off of Design Sponge here)

Seriously.

I have a thing for vertical gardens since watching some of the classic Australian show The Renovators. Google it if you don't know what you were missing. They did this awesome challenge of making vertical gardens and it totally caught my imagination. It may have even started earlier when I read an article in National Geographic about buildings with vertical gardens and then I went to the new Anthropology store in London (where I would buy pretty much anything if I had the money) where they have a full triple height wall covered in living, breathing plants:

I found the picture here: http://weewhiskeywoman.blogspot.com in the archive

The building site across the road is slowly winding down and they have a bunch of these pallets kicking around so I am thinking of sending the Hons over to ask them if we can take a bunch off their hands. I will not ask myself because I am chicken and did not marry Patrick for no reason.

Once the pallets are acquired I will go about the business of following the instructions on the blog I found them on (cover back and bottom with landscape paper, fill with earth, plant with plants of choice, let rest for a few days, place in the vertical wherever appropriate). I would really love to have it look exactly like either of the walls I have posted on here, but who am I kidding. I could never afford that many succulents (unless I start growing them now for planting next year). But I will find something beautiful. Unfortunately veggies are not ideal because of the chemicals that are nesting in the wood, just waiting for some unsuspecting, vegetable-garden loving Canadian-German to come along and unwittingly ingest them in her body. Well not this time, you sneaky pallets.

Aren't they lovely? Do you have space in your life for a vertical garden? Would you go through the extra effort to line it well and then plant it with herbs or the like (ooooh I love that idea! Maybe that will be the terrace one...)

What are your gardening plans this spring?