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Ideas for greening

Greening starts with ideas! It's often about the appearance of a house - and that's where we want to help you. Our advice if you are uncertain or new at this is: Don't rush into anything and use the following ‘chapters’ to find the starting point for your project in 1, 2 or more places...

Why Green a Facade?

Reasons for living walls

Concepts

How should greening be carried out?

Parts of Buildings

Downpipes, balconies, columns, etc.

Objects and Outbuildings

Garages, walls, fences...

Tips for choosing plants

Location factors, growth types, etc.

Stylistic Eras

Greening in the past and present

Your ideas - our advice

How can we help you? The best way, of course, is to use our homepage to find answers to your questions! If you then buy plants and climbing aids, we will send you the goods...

If you are unsure and want to discuss your ‘idea’ with us, we are attentive and listen. We will try to understand your idea and will be happy to advise you. We will give you tips on where to find answers to your questions on our extensive homepage. We will either guide you to the relevant page over the phone or send you a link. We will be happy to look at photos or sketches of your project and discuss them with you.

Motivation

But before we embark on a project, let's go deeper and ask: Why do you want to green? In other words: What is your motive? That's why our homepage starts with this section: Why greening? Because if the motivation is clear, the following steps are easier, both for you and for us.


A motive can also be: You have an official requirement and MUST green, but want to save money. We can help there too!

Mission statements

The idea usually includes a model.This can be a magazine photo or a greenery spotted on your last holiday, i.e. usually a good example. Or a photo from the time your house was built, e.g. from 1920, with a vine trellis... Some people, on the other hand, only have a vague idea of what they want as a model, which still needs to be honed!

And you can sharpen your vision on our homepage, under ‘Style eras’, ‘Concepts’ and ‘Regions’ you will find suggestions. Under ‘Parts of buildings’ and ‘Objects’ you can check the feasibility of realisation, e.g. by selecting suitable plants.

It may also turn out that you do not yet have a mission statement. For example, if you want to do ‘something for the climate’ on your façade, but don't know what exactly. Then you can find examples here, or we can help you!

Examples

Below is a ‘smorgasbord’ of examples. What is otherwise organised on the website is mixed here. A pool of suggestions, so to speak!

Here you will find examples that can serve as models. There are more pictures of “modern” buildings in particular under “Bauhaus-style”.

Three-lobed wild vine (Parthenocissus tricuspidata), a ‘self-climber’ with adhesive discs and without climbing supportIvy on a church tower (Oberoppurg / Thuringia), a ‘self-climber’ with adhesive roots and without climbing supportTrellis fruit - here pears - on wire ropes on a wooden façadeLarge-leaved pipevine (Aristolochia macrophylla) on wire ropesWoolly pipevine (Aristolochia tomentosa) on a railingFlowering climbing hydrangea (Hydrangea petiolaris), a self-climber with adhesive roots, presumably without climbing supportClematis on a trellisTwo Mandevilla ‘Rubiniana’ (annuals - perennial flowering plants) on trellisesJapanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica) on vertical wire ropes on a terraceClimbing trumpets (Campsis) on vertical wire ropesFlowering Wisteria sinensis on wooden trellises, Riesa Town Hall / SaxonyWisteria as a ‘green plant’ after flowering on tension wiresWhite climbing rose on a buildingGreen concrete retaining wall (ICE railway line) with Clematis vitalba on stainless steel cablesWild vine (Vitis hybrid) or scarlet vine (Vitis coignetiae) with climbing wires

More ideas?

You can also find sample photos of our plants!

... to the ‘Climbing plants’ section