Maintaining Your Vertical Garden: Tips and Tricks

Vertical gardens enable people in smaller properties to enjoy green spaces in their daily lives, making them popular among apartment dwellers in city centres across the country. If you would like to create a vertical garden in your home but are not sure how to look after it, today’s vertical garden maintenance tips are sure to come in handy.

Essential vertical garden maintenance tips

Learning how to care for vertical gardens starts with doing your homework thoroughly. At Vertical Gardens Australia, we believe that planning and design play an important role in vertical garden maintenance. If you design your garden well, it will need minimal care and attention.

• Leave space for irrigation – With a miniature drip irrigation system, you won’t even have to remember to water your vertical garden.
• Choose slow-growing plants – Plants that grow slowly need pruning less frequently. They are also likely to need less fertiliser and water.
• Raise your vertical garden off the ground – By creating a space between the lowest tier of your space and the ground, you can prevent pests that cannot fly from attacking your plants.

If you prefer not to design and construct a garden on your own, get in touch with us for our expert services. If you are located in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne or Perth, you are welcome to take advantage of our services.

How to care for vertical gardens for long-term health

Maintaining healthy vertical gardens in the long term is more of an art than a science. Over time, you will become familiar with the lifecycle of individual plants in your garden and with the lifecycle or natural rhythm of the garden as a whole. As you gain more knowledge and experience with your garden, you will find yourself able to anticipate its needs better. It is this anticipation that will ensure the long-term health of all the residents of your vertical garden.

Best practices for maintaining healthy vertical gardens

To summarise, we believe you can best care for your vertical garden by researching your plant selection, carefully selecting the location for your new garden and raising it off the ground to eliminate the threat of wingless pests. We also recommend installing a drip irrigation system and using it not just to water your garden but to fertilise it too.

If maintenance isn’t your thing and you prefer us to look after your garden, the good news is we have a maintenance team that can take care of that for you. We have a range of different maintenance offerings, tailored to how hands-on or hands-off you would like to be.

If you would like to enjoy all the benefits of a vertical garden with none of the hard work, call and speak to us about our vertical garden services in Australia. We have designed and installed many beautiful gardens for residential and commercial properties in cities across Australia.