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We’ve been doing plants in interior, terrace and courtyard spaces for a long time — over 20 years in fact — ouch, we’re old!

That’s a good thing though. We know what we’re doing and we do it well. With age comes experience!

Ok, back on topic now. There are only so many plants that  will survive in interior spaces and most of them have been around for a while. Some of them are classics and sometimes, some of them are some new genus that was created through tissue culture — that’s kind of like cloning — but for the most part, there really haven’t been that many new plants introduced in the past several years.

Not to worry though. We’re experts at creating Award Winning Interior Plantscapes and often we achieve our end result by combining the ordinary with the unusual and creating the extraordinary. For example, for this Award Winning installation for Espirito Santo Plaza — itself an award winning  property  in Miami’s Brickell Finacial District — we combined cast stone vessels by a New England Artisan with juncus sporalis and fresh stems of tropical flowers which are changed out weekly.  Visitors, tenants and residents of the building get quite a surprise every Wednesday as we perform our floral change. They never know what to expect, but they’re always pleasantly surprised!

In this rotation shown at left we have Beehive Gingers  installed into the aqua-tubes and we chose to keep them low and comingled with the Juncus sporalis. The Juncus which is permanently planted, was selected for it’s quirky corkscrew-like character and also because it’s a plant that most are not familiar with.

The rotation of Heliconias shown above is one of our favorites and three different colors of Heliconia are installed over the course of the year.

Kangaroo Paws shown below are a favorite for both Spring and Fall — although we don’t really have much in the way of seasons here.

I’f you’re looking for a way to spruce up your lobby or reception area, consider adding some FosterPlants™ and AwesomePlanters™ to your space. We’d welcome the opportunity of meeting with you to discuss how we can make your space green.

Call Steve Foster at 305.962.0990 to schedule a complimentary initial consultation.

It was just last Wednesday that we completed the living wall installation at the new Splendid store that opened on Friday in the upscale Aventura Mall.

We posted about this back then, and we’ve already received several emails asking to see more photos, so we thought we’d show you how the Wally Wall evolved from beginning to end.

Upon arrival at the jobsite, the plants were unloaded from our truck and detailed for installation.  They had already been cleaned and prepped at our facility prior to installation day, but we tend to be very detail oriented, so everything always gets a final go-over before being installed. Alex and Chris were responsible for this task.

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Let’s talk about instant gratification!

Here’s a quick shot of the living wall that we installed just yesterday in the new Splendid store in the Aventura Mall.

We used seven rows of Wally Three’s from the Woolly Pocket Garden Company and the process couldn’t have been simpler. Thanks, WPGC for selecting us to work on this  project. We can’t wait to install our next Wally Wall.

More photo’s to come in our next post, including some that show the installation and planting processes.

If you’d like to have one of these fantastic living wall’s in your home or business (inside or out) give Steve a call at 305.962.0990. We can make this happen for you.

If you’re a do-it-yourselfer and would like to take the project on yourself, we’ll soon have the Wally’s from the Woolly Pocket Garden Company available for online purchase at our web store AwesomePlanters.com

Better yet,  If you’re on Facebook, search for “FosterPlants” and if you “Like” us, we’ll enter you in our drawing for a FREE Wally Three! (Drawing takes place May 31, 2010… no purchase necessary to enter)

It’s official and we’re VERY excited!

We’ve been selected to install a living wall in a high-end retail store, with many more to come and we’re using Wally’s from the Woolly Pocket Garden Company. Yay Woolly Pocket….and GREAT BIG THANKS

Let’s have some fun now.

We were invited to submit a design for the wall, with a few other “contenders” and of course they made the right decision and selected FosterPlants for the job. Once passed off to the Client, the design was tweaked to meet their vision and we’re all very happy with the Wally Wall that we will be instaling next week.

Take a look at the three concepts presented below  (in no particular order) and let us know on twitter or facebook  which one you like best.

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