A living wall of real plants needs irrigation, grow lights and someone to look after it. An artificial green wall gives you the same sweep of foliage without any of that, which is why you see them in hotel receptions, restaurants and flats with a dark hallway. GREEN DESIGNERS, based just south of Warsaw, was set up by architects and designers, and makes each wall by hand to order, so size and shape are not fixed in advance. Leaves and flowers are made from hard-wearing textiles, plastics and rubber.
The signature product is the vertical garden panel, built 15–25 cm deep with up to ten kinds of artificial plant layered together, so it reads as a planted surface rather than a flat sheet of leaves. Numbered panels fit together into one continuous picture, from the deep greens of Mossy Dark to the big leaves of Monstera Madness. Flower walls go further: Majesty is a wall of roses; American Dream mixes red, burgundy and purple. For a flatter finish there are foliage mats, flexible mesh tiles covered in one to four kinds of leaf, from boxwood and ivy to fern or juniper.
At Lunares you will find vertical garden panels in 0.5 m² sections, foliage mats of 40 × 60 cm and 50 × 50 cm, flower walls and artificial potted plants, from begonias and marantas for a shelf to olive trees and strelitzias around two metres tall. The plants come in a black grower's pot that counts towards the quoted height, so plan on a decorative outer pot to hide it. Planter fillings, kokedama-style moss balls and mirrors framed in leaves complete the picture.
Yes, if it is marked UV. Without the symbol, keep it indoors.
No watering, feeding or sunlight, says the maker, so it suits even a windowless meeting room.
For more ideas, see vertical gardens and plant pots.
