RHS Vertigo aims to re-imagine the possibilities of the urban vertical planting habitat and its place in our ever-warming and polluted towns and cities. The garden will feature towering, vertical planting - an undulating corridor of living wall and climbers in a heliotropic race to the light. The plant palette will be peppered with species that accentuate a vertical arching growth, bending towards the sunshine, emphasising the extreme conditions of vertical planting.
The garden will celebrate the interface between people, nature, and the urban environment - connecting nature with architecture by adding drama and texture to the urban palette, while highlighting the benefits of urban greening and carbon sequestration that living walls provide. Light, form and movement are all at play within the garden, which will appear to wax and wane with the sun’s path - plants straining with the arc of the sun and the shadows created by the totemic line of climbers morphing the garden’s appearance.
