A local school installs Plant box living wall
Head Teacher - Mrs Melanie Machell said 'We have received many compliments for our new ‘living wall’. The PlantBox was installed quickly and professionally, and it has immediately brought texture and colour to transform the front of our school. In line with our ‘ECO School’ status, it is made from 100% recycled materials’.
Our most popular living wall ‘PlantBox’ is manufactured in England, from 100% recycled materials. This Living Wall product is incredibly versatile and comes in individual troughs that are lightweight, quick, and easy to install with a click and stack method for any configuration. It also benefits from low maintenance and a clever water indicator that tells you when to fill up.
Another popular option for school perimeters is our Ivy Green Screens. Supplied in a variety of species and heights. The Green Screens are pre-planted in a coco pocket and pre-grown on a 5mm galvanised steel frame and come fully established, creating a secure and attractive evergreen or deciduous hedging, with various installation options.
An Ivy green screen boundary fence is more sustainable and eco-friendlier than standard fencing, with many health, wellbeing and biodiversity benefits.
Hedera Screens were commissioned to install a modest Plant Box living wall to the playground area of Netherseal St Peter’s CE Primary school, as a further step towards their school Eco Status.
Besides schools becoming Eco-friendlier and more sustainable, thousands of children up and down the country are being exposed to poor air quality that risk causing lifelong health problems both inside and outside the classroom. There is no more important outdoor environment to protect from the dangerous toxins of traffic pollution than in and beyond the school perimeter. This isn’t limited to inner London schools; the damaging effects of pollution are Nationwide.
Scientifically proven to filter harmful pollutants. Ongoing research shows that the Ivy Green Screens, superior in plant density and construction, help remove PM10 particle pollution, in some sample locations up to 60% of the particles were “cleansed” from the air behind the screens. Research continues to further validate these findings, but increasingly, the installation of Ivy Green Screens offers not only a secure and natural perimeter privacy screen and social distancing barrier, but a valuable solution to reduce the negative effects of urban pollution.
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