Today’s Friday Film features green wall designer, botanist and author Patrick Blanc, perhaps the best known designer of green walls. His book, The Vertical Garden: From Nature to the City is getting a revised and updated edition which will be out in April. This video is part of the Greenroofs.com Greenroofs & Walls of the World Virtual Summit 2011, which includes a number of videos of keynote presentations, panel discussions and other speakers available on greenroofsTV. This video includes an interview with Patrick as well as a talk by him. In the interview he discusses how the vertical gardens, or green walls can play a role as habitat for wildlife. He also discusses projects which use native plants and the challenges of choosing appropriate plants for the varying conditions on a single building.

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