Living Wall Maintenance

Our Living Wall Maintenance Services - What Do You Get?

Our dedicated team of horticulture experts will ensure the long-term health of your living wall with regular maintenance, ensure minimal disruptions to your business or home, and keep costs down with automated systems and remote monitoring. Our bespoke living wall maintenance packages include:

Regular site inspections and health checks
Remote monitoring
Seasonal pruning and plant replacement
Automated irrigation system checks
Pest and disease management
Fertilisation and nutrient balancing
Keeping system free of blockages

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Green Wall Maintenance - Why You Need It

Investing in our living wall maintenance services doesn’t just ensure the health of your green wall and improve your building's aesthetics: It has a range of benefits, including:

Biodiversity: Healthy plants create habitats for pollinators and birds and contribute to a greener cityscape. We work with you to create a pruning, watering and fertilisation schedule that will ensure a healthy habitat for pollinators in built-up areas.

Air quality: A healthy living wall improves the air quality of the city and your office, maximising carbon reduction, heat insulation, and soundproofing.

Reduce noise pollution: Living walls can reduce urban noise pollution and are proven to dampen sounds from traffic and crowds by up to 50%!

Improved Well-being: Reduced stress and improved well-being and productivity are additional benefits partly resulting from reducing noise and improving air quality.

Visual appeal: Living walls are a modern, unique, and fresh way to incorporate nature into your office or commercial space. Regular maintenance for your living wall is essential to keep its visual appeal.

What Our Customers Say About Our Living Walls

"We chose Scotscape for their expertise in installing and maintaining our living wall. The installation was seamless, and their ongoing maintenance ensures it remains vibrant. Our team takes great pleasure in the greenery—it enhances our workspace and creates a refreshing, inspiring environment."

A. Fox

Director, CCM
"We use Scotscape across all of our developments to do our planting and maintenance at our sales & marketing suites as well as our show home garden designs. Scotscape are creative in their design and knowledgeable. They are a great team to work with, always deliver on time and to a high standard."

Hayley Jennings

Senior Marketing Manager, Berkeley Homes Eastern Counties Ltd
"We found them to be very professional throughout, from initial engagement up to completion. The nature of our project & our Client’s requirements necessitates the need for our supply chain partners to be reactive & flexible throughout and Darren & the whole team, were nothing but!"

Sean Kenny

Project Director, Bouygues E&S Contracting Ltd

Our Recent Living Wall Projects

Why Choose Scotscape for Your Living Wall Maintenance

Industry Leading Urban Green Expertise

We have been maintaining urban landscapes since 1986 and specialising in living walls since 2008. Our passion for urban greening and our horticultural expertise drives us to deliver the highest standard of care, whether for large-scale commercial projects or small residential installations.

Advanced Irrigation Technology

Efficient irrigation is key to a thriving living wall. Our state-of-the-art remote monitoring systems provide real-time data on irrigation performance, reducing unnecessary site visits and lowering costs while ensuring optimal plant health.

Comprehensive Urban Greening Solutions

With over 35 years of experience in landscape maintenance, including 15 years dedicated to living walls, we offer eco-friendly designs and methods for both vertical and horizontal urban greening that support biodiversity.

Versatility and Tailored Maintenance

We offer support for all living wall systems, both inside and outside. We provide customer solutions to meet each project's specific needs.

Proven Track Record

Our passionate team is committed to enhancing biodiversity and has successfully maintained living walls in the UK for a huge range of commercial and residential clients.

Get in Touch to Arrange a Free Consultation

If you’re looking for maintenance services for your living wall, we would love to help. Just fill in the form below with what you’re looking for, and we’ll be in touch to give you a free, no-obligation assessment of the work and maintenance costs.

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FAQs about Living Wall Maintenance

Are living walls high maintenance?

If installed correctly, living walls don’t need to be high maintenance. However, large or small, regular maintenance visits are absolutely necessary. They are living systems that are irrigated and subsequently require monitoring as well as seasonal pruning, fertilising, pest control and replacement plants. Our dedicated living wall maintenance teams ensure that the planting is kept healthy by designing the right care package for the living wall system that is in place.

Do living walls need sunlight?

No, living walls do not require sunlight. In fact, living walls planted in shade require fewer irrigation adjustments as they are less prone to extremes of heat from the sun. Living walls do, however, require some amount of natural light to survive.

During the initial consultation and design process, we will carry out a light study measuring the photosynthetic photon flux density or PPFD levels (Not LUX as this is a measure of perceived light intensity by humans whilst PPFD specifically focuses on the light wavelengths plants use for photosynthesis) and offer you advice on the optimal placement in your office or on your building.

Interior planting may require additional artificial lighting to provide the correct PPFD levels. We will also advise you on which plants would be best suited for the amount of natural light available for the position of the living wall.

How do you maintain a living wall?

Living walls require regular maintenance to ensure they are healthy and the irrigation systems are performing optimally. We recommend short and frequent visits and regular remote monitoring that catches any issues with irrigation and plant health before they become larger issues.

How often do you need to water a living wall?

Our living walls are watered by an in-built yet accessible irrigation system, which slowly waters plants to keep them healthy and reduce water waste.

How often your living wall needs watering depends on the types of plants, whether they are indoor or outdoor living walls, the amount of direct sunlight and the season. This is why we always recommend our automatic irrigation systems with moisture sensors, as this is all factored into the watering schedule.

If you choose not to have an irrigation system, then you will need to water your living wall by hand once or twice a week. Again, this will depend on the types of plants that make up your living wall, the season, and how much sunlight your living wall gets.

How do you water a living wall?

No living wall can survive without regular applications of water!

For a small DIY living wall, you can use a watering can or a hose with a spray attachment to spread the water over the living wall.

However, for the living walls that we supply and fit, a mains supply of water, typically from a tap, is required. Depending on the size and location, a tap timer may be sufficient as a programmer. Larger living walls will require a tank and pump with increased levels of automation to produce the correct pressure at the right times. When installing a living wall, we can also advise on automatic water and moisture sensors that prevent overwatering or underwatering.

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