The Influence of Plant Type, Substrate and Irrigation Regime on Living Wall Performance in a Semi-Arid Climate

Living walls are fast becoming a ubiquitous feature of modern living and widely implemented in commercial buildings both internal external environments. However, there several challenges associated with maintaining healthy plant growth on these water sensitive urban design systems. This experimental study an instrumented prototype-scale wall has found that is close relationship between the plants, substrates adopted irrigation regimes. In this study, selection was to be more critical than either substrate or regime selection. research also location plants volume significantly affected plants’ ultimate total dry weight. particular, were grow taller upper section compared middle lower sections. It recommended particular attention should given amount supplied at different positions wall.