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Longwood to create green wall

Posted July 20, 2010 11:00 pm

Longwood Gardens, one of the world's great gardens in Kennett Square, Penn., has engaged Bancroft Construction and Ambius, a provider of interior landscaping solutions, to create the largest green wall in North America as part of Longwood Gardens' new East Conservatory Plaza.

The East Conservatory Plaza, which will open to the public on Oct. 9, was designed by UK Landscape Architect Kim Wilkie in association with Wells Appel of Philadelphia, Penn., and will feature a terraced lawn, lush new plantings and the largest indoor green wall in North America.

This colossal vertical garden will feature a panel wall system across a green wall surface area of 3,590 square feet and include more than 25 species of plants. Currently the largest green wall in North America is the 2,380 sf living wall at Pittsburgh's PNC Bank.

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