Patrick Blanc Vertical Garden

I have just visited Berlin with my daughter, where we spent a few icy cold days. Our excellent insider tour guide described the weather as the spring that never came.

Berlin’s huge park, The Tiergarten was still bare and wintery, no leaves yet on the trees or any signs of spring bulbs and the inner lakes covered in ice. I craved greenery.

On a long walk back to our hotel one evening, we stopped at Dussmann das Kulturkaufhaus, an enormous bookshop on Friedrichstrasse.

As we walked through to the English Bookshop in the rear of the store we were absolutely delighted to discover Patrick Blanc’s Mur Vegetal – Vertical Garden, the back drop to the cafe. My first close up encounter and it is stunning.

The link to Patrick Blanc’s innovative and ingenious work and webpage is below

http://www.verticalgardenpatrickblanc.com

I also recommend watching the you tube video Patrick Blanc and the Chelsea flower show interview with the brilliant Chris Beardshaw, which explains the inspiration and construction so well.

My photographs, so hard to do this justice!