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- Plants are Epipremnum, Nephrolepis, Chlorophytum, Hedera, Soleirolia, Syngonium, Philodendron scandens, Vinca minor
- We’ve used a modular shelf wall mount from our local hardware store (200cm) and containers from ebertsankey (100x18x15cm)
- We’ll probably add 100-200W of lights during the winter.
- Total cost of 250€, took about 8 hours to buy and setup.
We just wanted it cheap, sturdy but still looking nice. We chose not to use finished vertical wall planters because they are very expensive and looked very bulky. A simple balcony-container design was the best idea we could imagine so we went with it. Originally we wanted to use proper balcony mounts, but this shelf mount was way cheaper, better looking and offers no-screw modularity on top.
Containers can be taken out without a problem, but we do not plan on rotating or rearranging them for now. We’ll definetly train growth to get it really bushy and overgrown. But we want to keep those “islands” for each type of plant.
I’d recommend either getting plants that don’t need a lot of light, or maybe you could combine that row with some warmwhite LED lighting strips, which would probably look very nice as well on top of providing the plants with at least a bit of light so they don’t die.