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Plant a wall

By DI2011 Exhibitor

Posted on February 21st 2011

The Wallflower Vertical Garden is a modular planter system by Haldane Martin, created to enable city dwellers to grow their own plants.

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The Wallflower Vertical Garden is a modular planter system by Haldane Martin, created to enable city dwellers to grow their own organic vegetables and other plants. The nested, fractal pattern is made of three sizes of wall-mounted containers that integrate hexagonal trellising and a branching, drip irrigation system. Martin will be revealing the first working prototypes at DI2011. Visit www.haldanemartin.co.za/kickstarter to pledge your support.

See Haldane Martin on stand 601 at Design Indaba Expo from 25 to 27 February 2011.

Haldane Martin

Haldane Martin qualified as an industrial designer at the Cape Tech in 1992, also winning the Style Student Award. From these promising beginnings he moved on to work for Richard Sparks Industrial Design consultancy but, just a year later, branched off on his own to develop furniture and homeware designs.

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