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