I saw this at a flower show in March. It had only been planted 3 weeks before.

Looks like it's filling in fast. My little wreath is starting to fill in nicely. It is growing faster than I thought it would. By next spring there shouldn't be any moss showing.

My small living wall, just one month old, I really hope it will survive

Mesemus, please tell us how you put it together. How fascinating. What did you use for the planting medium?
I love the stones, how did you get them to stay attached?
What plants are you using?
What is your growing zone?
Is it outside?

Very nice! I'd love to know more about how you made it too. And keep us posted of its progress.

I love these ideas and ...would love to know how mesemus created those with the rocks!

Debbie, it looks similar in construction to Sandi's post at the top of this thread. The rocks are probably glued in place?
Hopefully mesemus will return and tell us how the plants are fairing, and how the rocks were attached. : )

there used to be a epoxy that would go on small stones.. put over tree wells to keep weeds down and make it spray cleanable... it was water permable and it woud flow down into the soil.. but be an easily maintained area... it had the same look of the small stones in the piece ...
Here's one I guess... looks like a living wall to me... posted to my FB page..don't know where it was from

Oh, gads.................I wonder if they had snakes..............LOTS of snakes, in all that vegetation???

OH Anna... maybe they have peacocks.. I hear that's why there's so many peacocks kept in India.. as they are hard on snakes... one family I knew in AL was moving to a new home they built on a low area near a small river.. and used the peacocks to keep the snakes [ rattlers and cotton mouths there ] away from the house..

Oh my, that is impressive. Wonder what is growing?

Hi Sandi,
Joined ATP about a week ago but read your post 2 minutes ago and noticed you asked for input over a year ago. Hope the frame is progressing but no matter how many one does, there's always something new to learn...?...

From my experience the light exposure on a frame is never optimal so I find that eventually some of the semps will start to "lean" towards the sun and thus become asymmetric in the way they look as a group. This is why I sometimes will put two hangers on the back of the frame so that I can hang rotate the frame occasionally to even out the growth. If frame is not hung you can still rotate the frame to promote even growth. I also find that when starting out a newly planted frame, morning sun with afternoon shade is easier on the need-to-establish-into-frame plants.

I also use florist pins to stablize any semp that hasn't developed a good root system so that the heads don't fall out of frame when hung vertically. I have also found that not all semps root/establish at the same rate so the pins help to hold into frames. Sometimes I don't even remove the pins until much later when I have discovered that the other neighboring semps have grown over the hidden pin.

I plant my semps into the frame soil that I have sprayed damp with H20 bottle sprayer. When I am finished with newly planted frame, I use spray bottle to spray new plantings with a solution that helps foliage and root formation for the first week or so. And then water accordingly with bottle or water can or gentle hose dowsing depending on climate frame is in. During the harsh winters I took the frames down and lay them on the ground on hay or mulch and I still watered but less frequently.

Hope some of this is useful.

Wow Bev, awesome instructions. It would be wonderful if you used the idea tab at the top of the page, and did a tutorial with photos.
It would always be accessible in a search and wouldn't get lost.
And you would earn acorns.

thanks for the advice, Lynn. I learned something...

I look forward to seeing it published here at ATP. It will be wonderful.

Sandi, how is your living wall doing? Has it filled in now?

I saw this one the other day at our local garden center, made me think of your wall project.

These are all so beautiful. I finally had to lay my little wall pockets down. I'm hoping they will grow better.

Add more soil for them Charleen, and laying it down will give it a chance to renew itself during winter.

I sure will. It will settle down and they will have more to protect them...

Yes, and I look forward to seeing it this summer. Bet it will be all filled out.