Design · Installation · Maintenance · Supply

Living wall installation, London and UK wide.

Living wall services under one accountable team.

Four services under one accountable team: bespoke living wall design, installation, planned maintenance, and system supply to the trade. Twenty years of vertical greening, delivered from our studio in south London.

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01 — What we deliver

Everything a living wall needs, from first sketch to year ten.

Life on Walls team installing a living wall at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival — The RHS wall, built to our own drawings.

Living wall design & consultation

We start with the building. Structural interface, weight loading, water supply, drainage, light levels and access all shape the system before a single plant is chosen. You receive a planting palette, irrigation strategy, sections and setting-out drawings your architect or main contractor can build to, plus a realistic budget and programme.

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—Feasibility and site survey
—Structural and interface detailing
—Irrigation and drainage strategy
—Planting palettes by aspect
—Drawings and specifications
—Budget and programme

Life on Walls team reviewing a living wall project on site in Bristol — Our own team on site in Bristol.

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Living wall installation in London & the UK

Our own teams install the frame, irrigation and planting. We work to your programme and sequence around scaffold, façade completion, M&E and handover, so the wall arrives at full density rather than growing in after the client has moved in. Pre-grown planting means the wall reads as finished on day one.

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—Directly employed install teams
—Pre-grown planting to full density
—Irrigation commissioning and testing
—Sequenced around site programme
—Access, IPAF and RAMS handled
—Handover pack and training

Living wall at EQ Bristol kept under a Life on Walls maintenance contract — EQ Bristol, under contract.

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Living wall maintenance

A living wall is a planted system, not a product. Our maintenance contracts cover irrigation servicing, feeding, pruning, seasonal replanting and reporting, with remote monitoring on systems that support it, so problems are found before they show on the wall.

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—Monthly interior visits
—Four to eight exterior visits a year
—Irrigation service and leak checks
—Feeding and seasonal pruning
—Replanting to keep density even
—Condition reports for managing agents

Living wall system hardware supplied by Life on Walls — System hardware, supplied to trade.

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Living wall system supply

As an independent living wall system supplier we sell Channel Pro® and Living Louvres® hardware, irrigation kits and substrate to landscapers, contractors and designers running their own installations, with drawings and technical support through the build.

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—Hardware and irrigation kits
—Setting-out and fixing drawings
—Substrate and planting sourcing
—Remote technical support
—UK-wide delivery
—Trade pricing

02 — How we work

A process built around your programme.

Enquiry & site review

Send drawings, a photograph or a rough size. We review access, orientation, water and structure and tell you quickly whether the wall is straightforward or needs a different approach.

Design & specification

System selection, planting palette, irrigation and interface details, issued as drawings with a fixed quotation split into supply, installation and maintenance.

Installation

Frame, irrigation and pre-grown planting installed by our own teams to the agreed sequence, then commissioned and tested before handover.

Maintenance & aftercare

Planned visits from month one, with reporting to you or your managing agent and replanting cycles that keep the wall dense through year five and beyond.

03 — Maintenance

The walls we keep alive.

Every wall below is under a Life on Walls maintenance contract, including systems we did not install. Visits cover planting, irrigation performance, feed and a written condition report.

Life on Walls maintenance visit to a living wall in Soho, London — Soho, London

Maintenance work on the living wall at The Rubens — The Rubens

Living wall in Bristol maintained by Life on Walls — Bristol

Living wall at Vicarage Gardens maintained by Life on Walls — Vicarage Gardens

Living wall at EQ Bristol, maintained by Life on Walls — EQ Bristol

Living wall in Essex maintained by Life on Walls — Essex

Living wall at Fair Street maintained by Life on Walls — Fair Street

Living wall at Hornbeams maintained by Life on Walls — Hornbeams Residential

Living wall at Grosvenor Square maintained by Life on Walls — Grosvenor Square

Residential living wall maintenance on Brick Lane, London — Brick Lane, residential

04 — Who we work with

Specified by architects, trusted by property managers.

We work as an independent specialist alongside your design team rather than as a supplier of a single product, which is why our living wall bespoke solutions are specified on projects from private courtyards to hotel façades.

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Architects & designers: Drawings, specifications, weight loadings and planting palettes issued in the formats your package needs.
Developers & contractors: Priced packages, programme certainty and a single accountable trade for frame, irrigation and planting.
Property & facilities managers: Maintenance contracts with condition reporting and a named contact for residential and commercial living wall systems.
Landscapers & trade: System supply with technical support, so you can deliver a living wall installation on your own contract.

RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival

Full-height Living Louvres, planted to full density before the gates opened.

05 — Straight answers

Service questions.

Do you handle both design and installation?

Yes. Most projects come to us for the full route — design, installation and then maintenance — because a single accountable team removes the gap between the drawing and the planted wall. We are equally happy to design only, or to install to another designer’s specification.

Can you take over maintenance of an existing living wall?

Frequently. We survey the existing frame and irrigation, report on what is failing and quote for remedial work plus a maintenance contract. We maintain walls we did not build, including systems from other manufacturers.

How quickly can you start?

A site review usually happens within two weeks of enquiry. Installation lead time depends on planting: pre-grown material for a bespoke palette typically needs six to twelve weeks from order.

Do you work outside London?

Yes. London and the M25 are our weekly base, and we have delivered projects in Bristol, the Home Counties and internationally. System supply ships UK-wide.

— — Next step

Tell us about the wall.

Send a drawing, a photograph or a rough square metre figure and we will come back with a system, a planting approach, a programme and a budget range.

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