Two ways to go green.One costs far more to keep.
Planters you own outright and water yourself — or an engineered living wall with irrigation, grow lighting and a weekly service visit. They are different projects with different budgets, so this page keeps them apart.
Plants you keep alive.Or a wall we keep alive.
Almost every enquiry is one of two projects. The plants look similar in photographs and behave nothing alike once the building is running — one is a purchase, the other is a system with a service contract behind it.
Plants & planters
You buy the plants — or we source them with you — and we plant them into the containers, place them to the room and leave you with a written care sheet. Nothing is fixed to the building.
- Specimen plants, grouped planters, troughs and cabinet-top runs
- Planted dividers and suspended arrangements
- Pot sizes drawn to the room, not picked from a catalogue
- Self-watering reservoirs wherever the format allows
- Your team waters it, following the care sheet
A one-off cost. Nothing plumbed, nothing wired, nothing fixed to the building.
Living walls
A built system, not an arrangement. A planted wall needs water delivered to it, light it will not get from a window, and someone keeping an eye on it. Ten years of building them is what makes that predictable.
- Watering built in, so nobody has to reach a vertical wall
- Lighting where daylight alone will not keep it dense
- Regular care so it still looks like this a year later
Costs several times more than planters, and it is the piece people photograph. We work out the detail with you once we have seen the space.
Placed to the room.Watered by you.
Floor planters, dividers, trough runs and suspended arrangements — the formats that need no irrigation and no permission.
Built to last.Looked after.
Full-height systems, framed panels and column gardens — ten years of them. Water and light are built in behind what you see.
Four mistakes we seein Houston offices.
Chosen for the photo, not the light
A plant that looks right in a bright showroom dies in a north-facing meeting room. We measure the light you actually have and specify to it.
A living wall sold as furniture
The commonest and most expensive mistake. Without irrigation, light and a weekly visit, a planted wall is brown within a season — and the frame stays on your wall.
Hung on a wall that cannot hold it
A planted wall is far heavier once it is watered. We check what the wall is made of before anything goes on it, so nothing has to be undone later.
Nobody knows who waters what
Why office planting looks tired by month three. Every installation is handed over with a written watering and light sheet, plant by plant.
Assessed in a day.Built after that.
Photos of the space and, if you have one, a floor plan. Tell us which way the windows face.
One day on site. We assess the available light, access and delivery routes, and for a living wall the wall build-up and where water and power can come from.
Larger walls and feature areas get a design stage first — layout, plant palette and how the planting meets the architecture — agreed before anything is ordered.
Plants, containers and system components are specified and ordered. Lead times depend on the species and the size of the specimens.
Installed, cleaned up and handed over with a written care sheet. Planter projects usually finish in a day; a living wall is scheduled around your floor.
Where we work.
Questions offices ask.
What is the real difference in cost between planters and a living wall?
Can we buy the plants ourselves and have you install them?
Does a living wall really need lighting and irrigation?
Who looks after the wall once it is in?
Can you work outside office hours?
Send a photo of the space.We will tell you what lives there.
Photos, rough floor area and which way the windows face are enough for a first answer — including which of the two options actually fits your budget. Houston only.
Text is fastest. Photos help more than measurements.