Thanks to French botanist Patrick Blanc, Plant Walls - vertical gardens attached to hotels and museums - are sprouting up in cities worldwide......Blanc's brainchild, called Le Mur Végétal, or Plant Wall, is a dense sheet of vegetation that can grow against any surface, or even in midair. It works by doing away entirely with dirt, instead growing plants hydroponically in felt pockets attached to a rigid plastic backing. First exhibited in 1994 at the International Garden Festival in Chaumont-sur-Loire, France, the Plant Wall immediately caught the public's attention...
Amber Haq at businessweek
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