A unique living wall installation has been completed by Scotscape at the National Gallery in London.

Containing over 26 different plant varieties and 8,000 individual plants, the wall brings
Van Gogh’s famous painting ‘A Wheatfield with Cypresses’ to life.

The Living Wall ‘painting’ is situated on a hoarding on the western side of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, and will grow throughout the summer and autumn, remaining in place until at least the end of October 2011.

Scotscape and ANS worked closely to create the installation, with individual plants selected to match the tones of the original painting; each one was then hand-planted into its location.

Taking responsibility for the Living Wall installation, the Scotscape team was on site for 5 days,
with the company’s maintenance team now visiting the Wall on a weekly basis to ensure the ‘picture’ remains in pristine condition.

Scotscape Managing Director Angus Cunningham has been invited to sit on a panel chaired by Greenspace editor of Horticulture Week, Magda Ibrahim at the Hard Landscaping show
(24th – 25th March 2010, Ricoh Arena, Coventry) to discuss balancing hard and soft landscaping schemes. Living walls and Breeam (Bre environmental Assessment Method) will be included in the discussions.

Our living wall stand at Ecobuild 2010 proved immensely popular with over 4000 leaflets given out. Advice and information on our ANSystem modular living wall was imparted by 5 staff, continuously, over the 3 day show period – most of whom complained of being “all talked out”

A huge amount of interest was also shown in our 80m2 ANSystem living wall on the Cityscape cube which Scotscape constructed, along with the surrounding landscaping, in the allotted 72 hours prior to the show opening. On completion of the show, the living walls were carefully removed and returned to the nursery and the landscaping donated to charity.

A BIG thanks to all our team from designers to operatives and staff on site.

Scotscape are pleased to have been chosen to construct the Cityscape main feature Landscaping for the Ecobuild Exhibition at Earls Court - Tuesday 2nd – Thursday 4th March. The central feature comprises a 10mtr x 10mtr x 8mtr high ‘Cube’ which will be clad using four different Living Wall Systems. One of which will be our ANSystem Living Wall. The box is encompassed by a pedestrianised landscaped area including stone seating, planting turfing and decking. The entire cityscape Landscape feature will be constructed over a period of only 3 days, including the building of the cube.

Scotscape will also have a stand featuring an ANSystem Living Wall in the BALI pavilion stand number 1691. We look forward to seeing you there.

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