Living Wall of Aroids
Design of the Living Wall of Aroids
Living Pot with Totems
As part of the new design of the Living Walls of Aroids, we’re introducing Living Pots with Totems to expand the display of our maturing aroids.
The Living Pots are covered with a felt made from 100% recycled plastic PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles.
The fibrous composition and moisture retention of the felt, supplemented with microscopic water droplets (fogging) will promote development, density and spatial distribution of aerial roots.
As with the Living Wall of Aroids, the Living Pots & Totems will be reclaimed over time by nature with non-vascular mosses providing a contrast to maturing aroids.
The Living Pots with Totems were created as a unique way of growing and presenting maturing hemiepiphytic climbing Philodendrons.
The Living Pots will assist is creating a maze of vertical growth amongst my extensive collection of the family of Araceae, growing on the Living Wall of Aroids modules within the Araceae Cloud Forest.
As a collector and educator, I’m always looking at creative ways to grow and promote the beauty of maturing aroids in an environment in harmony with Mother Nature.
Goals were to use recycled products and integrate them in a way that ‘Mother Nature’ will reclaim them without decomposition, maintaining the integrity of the environment to support the longevity of maturing aroids growing in/on the Living Pots and Totems.
Natural Mosses
They're ancient plants
Over time the Living Pots & Totems will be covered with Mosses as shown in the attached image.
Mosses are non-flowering plants which produce spores and have stems and leaves, but don't have true roots.
Mosses, are classified as Bryophyta (bryophytes) in the plant kingdom.
They date back 450 million years, and have survived and thrived through a range of drastic climate changes.
Comprised of 15,000 – 25,000 species, they occur on every continent and in every ecosystem habitable by plants that use sunlight for energy.
Among the world of plants, the bryophytes are the second most diverse group exceeded only by the angiosperms, the flowering plants (350,000 species).
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