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LIVING WALLS
Indoor Plant List
List of recommended plants for use on indoor living walls to assist
designers and other specialists with plant choice.
Achimenes erecta ***
Trailing plant, 45cm
Flowers
Brightly lit area
Agapanthus
Use dwarf varieties such as Snowball
or Baby Pete
Evergreen
Summer Flowering
Flowering height 30cm
Anthurium Scherzerianum
Bright spot but no direct sunlight
Flowering from Spring to late summer
Keep compost moist
Asparagus Fern
Most popular variety
Grown for foliage
Bright or semi-shade
Leaf stems grow up to 90cm
Can flower white / pale pink on
mature plants
Aglaonema
Aucuba Japonica Variegata
Thrives in poor light areas
Only variegated varieties to be used
Grown for its foliage
indoors
Slow growing
Bright or shade, no direct sunlight
Popular varieties include “Silver
Must be kept in check by pruning
Queen” and “Silver King”
Grown for foliage
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Begonias
Codiaeum (Croton)
Grown for foliage
Grown for foliage
Bright area
Keep a warm area
Keep compost moist
Too many varieties to mention such as
Rex, Tiger, Masoniana and Escargo
Bright area
Soil must be moist
Excellent air cleaner
Chlorophytum
Dieffenbachia
Grown for foliage
Keep compost moist
Must be prune to keep shape as can
grow 150cm
Bright area away from direct sunlight
Will grow in hot or cool rooms
Partial shade required
Moist compost
Cleyera Japonica
Dracaena Godseffiana
Slow growing but can reach 60cm.
Foliage plant
Keep soil moist
Light shade
Grown for variegated foliage
Can grow 60 cm
Bright but away from direct light
Keep compost moist
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Episcia cupreata
Adiantum raddianum
Grown for foliage but has small
flowers
Light shade or dappled sunlight
Moist soil
Trailing stems grow 45cm
Grown for foliage
Bright area
Moist compost
Fatsia Japonica
Ferns
Fast growing
Polypodium vulgare
Must be pruned to keep size
Asplenium Nidus
Bright area
Phyllitis Scolopendrium
Grown for foliage, flowers rarely
appear
Polystichum
Felicia amelloides
Pellaea Rotundifolia
Mostly grown for flowers
Prefers slightly dry
Mini-shrub, grows 30cm
Stems grow 30cm
Keep moist
Shiny leaflets
Bright area
Easy to grow
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Ficus Pumila
Trailing plant
Spathiphyllum Wallisii
Easy to grow
Moist soil, do not let it dry out
Prefers partial shade
Prefers a bright area but away from
Small leaves, good for backround
direct sunlight
Needs to be kept pruned or can get
out of control
Important to use “Wallisii” variety as
Fittonia
Grown for foliage, large variety of
colours
Indirect bright light
Moist soil but not soggy
Slow growing
Low growing and can get over
shadowed
others are too big for living walls
Excellent at cleaning the air
Tradescantia Zebrina
Full sun or light shade
Trailing plant can grow 50cm
Keep reasonably pruned to keep it
from looking leggy
Grown for foliage rather than flower
Moist soil but not over wet
Chirita
Nephrolepis exaltata “Green
fantasy”
Bright area but no direct light
Generally pest free
Grown for flower and foliage
Prefers light shade
Can be drought tolerant but doesn’t
Moist soil
like its feet wet
Must be kept in check as they can
Foliage will grow 25cm
easily over shadow other plants
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Phlebodium Aureum” Blue
Star”
Blue/grey coloured fern
Moist soil
Bright area but no direct sunlight
Can grow around 90cm long
Chamaedorea Elegans
Bright area but no direct light
Moist soil but not over wet
Prone to spidermite & thrips
Very slow growing
Can add good contrast to the wall
Maranta leuconeura varieties
Saxifraga Stonifera
Too many varieties to mention
Grown for foliage rather than flower
Grown for foliage
Can grow 30cm wide
Excellent plant, easy to grow
Best grown in a mixed planting plan
Moist soil
Prefers shade
Light shade
Prone to spider mite attack
Epipremum Aureum
Trailing/Climbing plant
Can grow 4m long so keep pruned
Excellent air cleaning plant
Prefers partial shade
Syngonium podophyllum
Bright area but no direct sunlight
Trailing/climbing plant grows 1.8m
Excellent at cleaning air
All parts are poisonous, keep out of
reach of children/pets
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Crassula Ovata
Asplenium nidus
Likes full sun
Shade to bright light, no direct light
Very slow growing
Can grow 60cm
Prone to Aphids & vine weevil
Moist soil but don’t overwater
Fleshy leaves
Can be prone to scale insect
Episcia Dianthiflora
Soleirolia Soleirolii
Bright area or partial shade
Prefers shade over full sun
Moist soil
Moist soil
Will grow 30cm long
Can spread almost indefinitely to
Produces white flowers
produce a carpet effect
Must be kept in check or it will over
shadow other plants
Hypoestes
Nephrolepis cordifolia 'Duffii'
Bright area, direct sunlight can
Light shade
increase colours
Moist soil
Keep soil moist
Grows 30cm long and wide
Flowers are insignificant and should
Foliage can have a lemon scent
be pinched out
Watch out for scale insect, whitefly
and aphids
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