To Reduce Vandalism, These Communities Installed Vertical 'Living Walls' That Double As Pollinator Gardens

To Reduce Vandalism, These Communities Installed Vertical 'Living Walls' That Double As Pollinator Gardens

To Reduce Vandalism, These Communities Installed Vertical 'Living Walls' That Double As Pollinator Gardens Walk through any city in the United States, and you’ll find concrete walls and chain-link fences with privacy slats covered in spray-painted graffiti. Sometimes these quirks are a communal display of public art and creativity, but other times they’re just plain vulgar and disrespectful. What if those walls could be transformed, instead, into a bountiful, bursting pollinator garden? Company Habitat Horticulture developed the Meadowall for this very reason. The native plants begin to bloom on the greenway bike path. Photo courtesy of Habitat Horticulture “Just down the street from Habitat Horticulture’s headquarters, a newly built fence along the greenway bike path was quickly covered in graffiti,” a statement from the company shared. “Rather than let the wall become a lasting eyesore, we saw an opportunity to showcase the potential of Meadowall, our pre-seeded panel system desig…