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Green walls are sometimes viewed as simply being aesthetic additions to indoor and outdoor spaces, however well-designed greening actually provides many more benefits than just looking pretty. The systems’ benefits include deterring graffiti, providing new habitats for wildlife and cleaning the air by absorbing carbon dioxide, releasing oxygen and trapping pollutants. Green walls can also help reduce the effects caused by urban heat islands. An urban heat island is an urban area that experienc...

What are Jakob Trellis-based Green Walls? You may be familiar with residential trellis systems such as those in domestic gardens, where ropes run vertically across horizonal rods (available here). Essentially rope and rod Green Walls are professional, larger scale versions which enable clients to create unique designs even before schemes are fully planted. The combination of stainless steel rod, rope and fixings provide elegant design options; and with its unique customizability, Jakob Webnet w...

The inaugural International Green Wall Day 2021 has been set to celebrate the 130th birthday of Stanley Hart White, the inventor of the green wall. Founded by UK green infrastructure specialists, Pritchard & Pritchard, and supported by industry leaders, Green Wall Day celebrates green and living walls worldwide. Green Wall Systems & Benefits Green walls (also known as living walls) are structures designed to house vegetation, allowing for vertical greening to be created. There are ma...

With growing populations and the increasing impact of climate change, greening infrastructure is becoming more important than ever in towns and cities, to ensure that our urban environments remain liveable and healthy. But why use Jakob Green Walls for urban greening? Find out here...

When it comes to designing green walls, no two are ever the same, with each one needing to be designed to suit the individual characteristics of its location. We’ve identified 5 key green wall considerations that will impact on its climbing plants, all of which must be taken into account: light, shade wind, temperature and rainfall. By researching and analysing each of these, in the environment where the green wall is to be located, precise planning can be carried out, and a green wall that wi...

In 2019 National governments and local authorities are increasingly taking measures to improve air quality in towns and cities, with air pollution widely recognised as the most significant environmental risk to human health in the UK, and the fourth biggest threat overall - after cancer, heart disease and obesity. DEFRA published its ‘Clean Air Strategy’ that laid out a series of goals and actions required to achieve them, including the reduction of toxic pollutants like nitrogen oxides, pa...

A new public Atrium, built to link seven buildings on Binney Street in Boston Massachusetts with a large public park, has now opened. The Atrium which features three Jakob Webnet structures, has been constructed in the centre of the group of buildings, with the architects designing the new open space to allow access through the site from neighbouring buildings to the new park. The Atrium is designed to feel like an extension of the exterior landscape design at the ground floor, with natural...

What are the benefits of vertical planting? Vegetation provides a multitude of environmental and social benefits including improving air quality, reducing pollutants in run-off, reducing noise, creating a habitat for wildlife and reducing flood risk (e.g. by retaining rainfall within soils and canopy). There are also well documented physical and psychological health benefits. Vegetation can cool the air within and surrounding masonry by providing shade, evapo-transpiration (leaf respiration of...

With the Wimbledon Championships and the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show now in full swing, summer is definitely here. And when we were asked to contribute some of our Jakob stainless steel wire ropes for the RHS Kitchen Garden at Hampton Court, we were delighted to say yes. Particularly when we heard that the garden was being designed to champion edible growing and to promote different ways of growing fresh food at home. Created by award-winning designer, Juliet Sargent, the Kitchen Ga...

It’s not every day that we get a call from a TV producer, but that’s exactly what happened back in April when one of the team from Alan Titchmarsh’s ‘Love Your Garden’ show rang to talk about a project they were undertaking in Plymouth. We were asked to get involved in the first programme of the new series (which was broadcast last night, 21 June, on ITV1) and when we heard the inspirational story of the recipient, we were absolutely delighted to help and to supply and install a...