The world’s largest green wall was unveiled at the Expo 2005, featuring the Bio-Long in Japan, the wall is 200 metres, 15 metres high and has 200 different species of plants growing on it totalling a 200,000 plant population altogether.

Green roofs in the UK are (pardon the pun) growing in popularity and becoming more and more common according to Dave Auster at Greenfix Sky Gardens who are UK Green Roof specialists.

Nightclub owner Billy Reilly is opening a roof terrace venue called Pacha, let’s hope that more nightclubs follow suit and cover their clubs in foliage.

In cities across Germany it is becoming law that flat-roofed buildings must have a green roof, and the overall roof coverage is said to be growing by more than 13 million square metres a year. In the UK it is expected that future UK planning regulations for roofs are starting to move in the same direction as the Germans with new buildings being required to have a portion of their roof surface area be dedicated for green walls and roofs.