vertical garden

[ vur-ti-kuhl gahr-dn ]

noun

1. a garden in which the plants are supported to grow along vertical, often tiered surfaces, especially fences, posts, trellises, and walls, rather than along the ground:

   Our first vertical garden, on part of an old barn door, yielded 18 bushels of summer squash.

Other Words From

• ver·ti·cal gar·den·ing noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of vertical garden¹

First recorded in 2010–15

Example Sentences

And he has a lush vertical garden by his desk to prove it.

From Washington Post

Hundreds of balloons were twisted and “planted” in different shapes and sizes to create a vertical garden.

From New York Times

A wooden ranch with solar panels, a vertical garden, a well, and a large building to the side that he calls a garage.

From Slate

As an interior designer, Blakeney shares many “how-to” design tips, of course — bringing the outdoors in through vertical garden systems, mixing patterns, ways to add color to interiors — but her latest book, she says, is not just about “how” but “why.”

From Los Angeles Times

I fell into a vertical garden wormhole for the first time after seeing a Pinterest photo of a "living wall" at someone's wedding.

From Salon