In this post we want to show you this interesting wall located in the Geneva Botanical Garden. It is also a wall typology that, intentional in this case but which spontaneously can be found in other places when walking through the city.
It is a vegetated wall that does not correspond to what we understand as a typical green wall, but rather a naturalized wall. Since it is planted using drainage weep holes as planting spaces. In the same way that opportunistic plants colonize, spontaneously, these favorable spaces due to the presence of moisture in the drainage openings and the thermal inertia of the wall that generates a microclimate on itself with a slight increase and conservation of temperature on its surface.
Thus in this space we find some species that might surprise us to find them here due to their origin from Mediterranean climate zones and which are characterized by their high resistance to drought, some of which are produced in the Nursery. But in these conditions they are capable of surviving the rigors of winter and with the water supply that reaches them naturally through the back of the wall. This wall has specimens of: Euphorbia, Centaurea, Teucrium, as well as several species of Genista, Ephedra and Opuntia, which are combined with other species from alpine zones.
More information about the Geneva Botanical Garden here.